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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

    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIDrive protects PCs, Macs, mobile devices, Servers, Cloud Applications Data (SAAS) including Office 365, and Google Workspace, and provides S3 compatible Object Storage with IDrive e2. IDrive offers different plans for cloud backup for devices: - IDrive Personal - IDrive Core - IDrive Team - IDrive Small Business - IDrive Enterprise - IDrive360 EndPoint IDrive provides Cloud Applications data (SAAS) Backup: - Microsoft Office 365 Backup - Google…

    $59.50

    per year One user, unlimited computers 5TB storage

    Pricing
    Commvault CloudIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    IDrive Cloud to Cloud Backup
    $20
    per year
    IDrive 360 EndPoint
    $29.50
    per year
    IDrive e2
    $49.50
    per year
    IDrive Core
    $79.50
    per year
    Personal
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Team
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Business
    $99.50
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Commvault CloudIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—IDrive regularly offers first year discounts for all plans and offers a full-featured 30-day free trial for IDrive 360 Endpoint
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    Community Pulse
    Commvault CloudIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Considered Both Products
    Commvault
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    IDrive
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    91 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    55 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    88 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    60 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    88 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    86 Answers
    Features
    Commvault CloudIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Commvault Cloud and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    16% below category average
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    -
    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
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Commvault Cloud and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.5
    93 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings9.768 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings9.371 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.466 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    File search00 Ratings9.378 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.284 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Commvault Cloud and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    8.9
    88 Ratings
    3% above category average
    User and role management00 Ratings9.371 Ratings
    File organization00 Ratings8.184 Ratings
    Device management00 Ratings9.385 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Commvault Cloud and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.0
    93 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Performance00 Ratings8.290 Ratings
    Reliability00 Ratings9.488 Ratings
    Storage Reports00 Ratings9.481 Ratings
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Commvault CloudIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (79 ratings)
    9.5
    (97 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.7
    (23 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (52 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 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 CloudIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    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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    IDrive
    It scales well from the individual to corporate environments with many different plans to suit your needs and budget. For backing up servers such as Exchange or SQL I've used their sister product iBackup, which is also excellent and we have no problems with, so maybe they should merge the two products into one which would make it a better overall proposition. It also seems to handle backing up mapped drives as well, which is what we used for a while before getting the on server version. That being said it can use up quite a bit of bandwidth so make sure you schedule at night when noone is working. However it does only backup changed files which is great.
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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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    IDrive
    • I'm using it on MAC, the app works very well in the background
    • Logging activities is something I really like, because I can check whether the backup was successful or not.
    • I really like the option of being able to select external drivers and back up only specific folders or files.
    • The application itself is very easy to use, even though it doesn't have a version in my language (pt-br), I had no trouble setting it up and I'm using it without any problems.
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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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    IDrive
    • DropBox-protected folders were not initially backed up as IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 did not follow the symbolic links created
    • I experienced some UX confusion in adding new folders to backup; it's a different interface than setting up exclusions, and they should follow the same workflow and page buttons
    • After a reboot, it appears like a full disk scan is performed which can take quite a long time on a disk which has many files and lots of space
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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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    IDrive
    It does everything that it needs to to create an effecitve Three level backup to the cloud of all your important data, its reliable, dependable and peformant in its use cases. It overcomes the need to store offsite physical media such as Tape or disk storage. And its cost and level of reporting can be tailored to fit the use case of your business.
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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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    IDrive
    While both the desktop and mobile apps are pretty straightforward and not complicated to navigate with features and settings fairly easy to understand and execute with clear enough descriptions they could use a refresh to be a but more intuitive and improvements made so they are less glitchy. Also backup speeds could use some improvement
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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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    IDrive
    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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    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    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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    IDrive
    I have not had to use their tech support. I did call once but luckily figured out what to do while I was on hold so I disconnected. If I really needed them it would have been a very long hold time I suppose.
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    In-Person Training
    Commvault
    Traning is very easy very helpful
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    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Commvault
    Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    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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    IDrive
    Did not participate in the implementation.
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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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    IDrive
    I was a Backblaze user for 5 years because they had a very cost effective plan for my storage needs. However, they were very poor at backing up external devices quickly, and made it a pain in the butt to keep the backups active due to their 30 days connectivity policy.
    Dropbox is a great fit for cloud backup when you need to access the backup files in the cloud frequently.
    IDrive is the best solution out there for true backup of devices in case they are damaged or lost.
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    Scalability
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    IDrive
    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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    IDrive
    • For individual users such as my case, the savings with the Personal plan are important compared to alternatives like ElephantDrive. For 5TB ElephantDrive costs $600/yr in the comparable Family plan, whereas IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 costs only $99.50/yr.
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