Commvault Complete Data Protection vs. IBM Storage Protect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Commvault Complete Data Protection
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Commvault Complete Data Protection helps ensure data availability and business continuity across on-prem and cloud environments using a single extensible platform. It provides simple, scalable, comprehensive backup, replication, and disaster recovery orchestration for modern workloads.N/A
IBM Storage Protect
Score 8.1 out of 10
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IBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect) provides comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a wide range of applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server. Clients can reduce backup infrastructure costs with built-in data efficiency capabilities and the ability to migrate or copy data to tape, public cloud services, and on-premises object storage. IBM Spectrum Protect can also store IBM Spectrum Protect…N/A
Pricing
Commvault Complete Data ProtectionIBM Storage Protect
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Commvault Complete Data ProtectionIBM Storage Protect
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Commvault Complete Data ProtectionIBM Storage Protect
Considered Both Products
Commvault Complete Data Protection
Chose Commvault Complete Data Protection
From a feature set Commvault is the most complete of all the products. Support is also fantastic when it's needed. The ability to implement on your own kit, on an appliance based solution or even in the cloud makes it extremely flexible and it can scale as an enterprise grows …
Chose Commvault Complete Data Protection
Commvault simplified application and management. Increased recovery times by 3x and allowed us to focus on higher-value priorities and not constantly be muddling around on a daily basis to get ready for the incoming backups each night. Another advantage is knowing when a …
Chose Commvault Complete Data Protection
We are constantly looking at ways to save money in initial purchases, maintenance, hardware, and efforts to maintain/update our environment. Commvault continually hits high marks and keeps other vendors out of our company. The cost to move over really isn't worth the …
Chose Commvault Complete Data Protection
IBM TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager), now Spectrum Protect, was for more complex to manage than the Commvault environment. With "Protect" each client feels like it required management rather than managing at a higher level with standardized policies. Troubleshooting and Monitoring …
IBM Storage Protect

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Commvault Complete Data ProtectionIBM Storage Protect
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Commvault Complete Data Protection
7.5
71 Ratings
8% below category average
IBM Storage Protect
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Ratings
Universal recovery7.663 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery6.661 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification6.664 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection7.667 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.166 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification7.671 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud7.153 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.169 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots8.166 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment6.660 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard7.661 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support7.661 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options8.159 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption8.158 Ratings00 Ratings
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Commvault Complete Data ProtectionIBM Storage Protect
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Commvault Complete Data ProtectionIBM Storage Protect
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(71 ratings)
9.3
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(8 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(12 ratings)
8.8
(3 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(81 ratings)
7.4
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.4
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
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Professional Services
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9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Commvault Complete Data ProtectionIBM Storage Protect
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.
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IBM
It is less appropriate for small clients/workloads, with not much data to back up, and not many servers. More suited for enterprise customers with hundreds of servers and several terabytes of data to back up daily.
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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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IBM
  • Large number of clients backed up
  • More data managements
  • Mass data fragmentation
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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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IBM
  • The tool administration platform must be improved.
  • You should look for simplicity for the configuration complexity of suite products.
  • The online viewing tool should be more stable.
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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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IBM
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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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IBM
In the present, a backup solution is a must-have, but then companies start using a solution for virtual machines, another solution for bare-metal servers, and another solution for their ERP. By using Spectrum Protect you can have all of that in a single pane of glass. This way you can have a simple recovery plan for all your information assets.
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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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IBM
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Performance
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
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IBM
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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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IBM
IBM has reduced the staff for IBM Spectrum Protect support. In some situations there are a lot of Sev1 cases opened and not enough support staff to take care of them.
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In-Person Training
Commvault
Traning is very easy very helpful
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IBM
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Online Training
Commvault
Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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IBM
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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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IBM
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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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IBM
IBM Spectrum Protect is related to the other IBM Spectrum products listed because it is part of the suite and is also the main backup product for backup and restoration of information. With Veeam it is related as they present competence in different lines of technology, often the integration of both tools can be the best solution for clients looking for a successful backup strategy.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Commvault
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IBM
Not at the moment, but it can leverage the billing outcomes as per the scales.
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Scalability
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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IBM
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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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IBM
  • It can be used as a disaster recovery solution when you have the right configuration (either replication or tape copies in a safe location). This way it can be a lifesaver for any company.
  • It can bring back the information you need if you are hit by ransomeware.
  • It is also needed if you are accounting for user error, sometimes people delete the files they need by accident and without a backup solution they are out of luck
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