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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Commvault Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ACommvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A

    ConnectWise Automate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AConnectWise Automate, formerly LabTech, is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. It provides powerful automation to discover and manage devices, monitor for problems, and scripts repetitive action.

    $700

    Pricing
    Commvault CloudConnectWise Automate
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Agents
    $1.00-$6.00
    per month/per agent
    Implementation Fee
    $700
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Commvault CloudConnectWise Automate
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Commvault CloudConnectWise Automate
    Considered Both Products
    Commvault
    No answer on this topic
    ConnectWise
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    55 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    60 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    73%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Commvault CloudConnectWise Automate
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Commvault Cloud and ConnectWise Automate
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    15% below category average
    ConnectWise Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery8.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.064 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.068 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection7.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations5.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification7.077 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud7.559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression7.575 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots7.571 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment6.166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support7.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options8.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption7.564 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Commvault Cloud and ConnectWise Automate
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ConnectWise Automate
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Commvault Cloud and ConnectWise Automate
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ConnectWise Automate
    7.4
    22 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    Activity Monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Commvault Cloud and ConnectWise Automate
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ConnectWise Automate
    7.8
    22 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Patch Management00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of Commvault Cloud and ConnectWise Automate
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ConnectWise Automate
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Attended device access00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Unattended device access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile device access00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Virtual device access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Multiple-display support00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Commvault CloudConnectWise Automate
    Small Businesses
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Panda Systems Management
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    N-able N-sight RMM
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Commvault CloudConnectWise Automate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (79 ratings)
    10.0
    (59 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (52 ratings)
    7.0
    (14 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Commvault CloudConnectWise Automate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Commvault
    Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
    Incentivized
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    ConnectWise
    I recommend it to all IT colleagues; regardless of the size of the PCs with which you work most of the time, the application allows connection stability between computers that make it possible to continue working or taking care of the infrastructure from afar.
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    Pros
    Commvault
    • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
    • Improves our Disaster Recovery
    • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
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    ConnectWise
    • Desktop sharing / view with chat to the operator, file sharing and pass-through for keyboard strokes
    • Computer/server monitoring with thresholds and warning
    • Search - tracking down computers when you have many by name, logged in user, IP
    • End user ticket raising is built into the tray icon which make access really easy
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    Cons
    Commvault
    • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
    • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
    • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
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    ConnectWise
    • They have conflicting scheduling paradigms. When scheduling patching for clients, the 1st Friday is interpreted as the very first Friday of the month, even if this is the 1st of the month. For scripting, the 1st Friday of the month is interpreted as the 1st Friday of the 1st FULL WEEK of the month. This makes no sense to have two different interpretations, and makes it unreliable to schedule recurring scripts to fall when recurring maintenance does. The scripts need to be done manually because of this.
    • There is no way to dictate reboot orders for patch policies. This tied directly in with my first point. We have some clients that require reboot orders. This is not possible without having different patch policies for each server and specifying a time this way. But, there aren't small enough increments of time to make this reliable, plus patching duration might vary. Excluding reboots with patching and scheduling reboot scripts fixes this. However, this can't be done once on a recurring schedule due to the different scheduling paradigms already discussed. We have to schedule these manually each month.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Commvault
    It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
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    ConnectWise
    The primary reason for this rating is that ConnectWise Automate is currently so integral to our operations that moving away would involve more man hours than we would realistically have to invest. However, ConnectWise Automate is also completely capable of meeting all of our business needs and customizable to the point where if something is not meeting those needs out of the box, it can be modified to do what we want. From only installing software on machines if a different software package exists, to push a new version of that software is available, to check if credentials for user/machine have been updated to our new standards and then updating them if they have not, ConnectWise Automate is capable of doing everything we ask of it.
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    Usability
    Commvault
    Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
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    ConnectWise
    Basic use of the product is fairly easy. Information about the machines you manage can be found in customizable dashboards, which can be unique for each user, and, therefore, properly suited to the users' needs/job function. This is not a 10 because some of the interfaces are very clunky (Patch Management), and some features are not intuitive and not well documented (reporting). Scripting and Patch Management have a fairly steep learning curve (For structure in patch management and syntax in scripting), but once learned, they work well.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
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    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    ConnectWise
    It used to be great, but then they broke reporting, speed and responsiveness with version 11 and the new Patch Manager. It's really bad and their support people are way behind on fixing so many bugs. They have really gone downhill. If they don't get it together soon, we'll start looking around.
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    Support Rating
    Commvault
    I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
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    ConnectWise
    ConnectWise Automate lets you manage more endpoints, with enhanced productivity and improved service, all without increasing expenses. It can manage patches and updates across thousands of computers. We also use it for customized monitoring and alerting on workstations and servers. Monitoring is really robust and granular. It does a great job of gathering a TON of data about the network, and that data is searchable. There are a bunch of different reports built in. Integrates with Manage, Control, and other applications. It does a ton of stuff out of the box, and has endless customization options.
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    In-Person Training
    Commvault
    Traning is very easy very helpful
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    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Commvault
    Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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    ConnectWise
    The Online training has been re-done and needs a lot more work. When you look at training in different roles, it shows a lot of the same topics but no explanation to what is different about them. Several times that topics are the exact same, but they make you re-take the same information for a different topic, instead of marking that you have already completed that portion of training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Commvault
    Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
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    ConnectWise
    Start small and learn the in's and out's before making policies and rolling things out company wide. Ask the questions of why if you don't agree with something or your company does things a different way. Usually they are done a certain way for a reason. Start simple with roll out and slowly enable or add on the functionality that is needed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Commvault
    In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
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    ConnectWise
    I believe the monitoring and alerts in Continuum command is better, but [ConnectWise Automate (formerly LabTech)] does have stronger scripting, and perhaps a better interface. N-Central is inferior on all fronts to both. I did not make the purchasing decision. I would myself likely pick Continuum if I had to make a on the spot choice.
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    Scalability
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Commvault
    • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
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    ConnectWise
    • We found we were able to provide good monitoring of our customers sites which was an objective. However, that came at a significant time investment that never seemed to be finished.
    • We were able to negotiate a price that worked for us for an up-front purchase which was nice.
    • We found the pricing to be very competitive.
    • Bottom line for us was despite the pros of the product, we found other RMM solutions to be a better overall "value" due to not having to dedicate technicians to maintaining the product.
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