Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI vs. Veritas NetBackup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Commvault® 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
Veritas NetBackup
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Veritas NetBackup is a backup-as-a-service product providing data recovery and protection for enterprises. It supports physical, virtual, and cloud systems and features an automated disaster recovery capabilities.N/A
Pricing
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIVeritas NetBackup
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Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIVeritas NetBackup
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIVeritas NetBackup
Considered Both Products
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
We switched from Veritas NetBackup, because we had two parallel environments. Combining allowed us to cover more targets and make better use of centralized assets & staff. Licensing of Commvault was simpler at the time we deployed, and Commvault has continued to evolve their …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
  • Veritas NetBackup is an old backup program, you must make SQL configuration on the client using files.
  • Dell EMC Networker is also an old program, it can't make own deduplication and compress on a dummy disk. You must login to the client for installation and troubleshooting. It …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Not all the backup tools have the ability to backup directly to Cloud (Blobs, S3, etc.).
It can be a little controversial, but when dealing with 900TB of user data to be backed up you don't have much options.
When doing this backup to tapes, we had 2 giant Tape Libraries …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
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 Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Why Commvault? Well, working with backup software in the last 25 years, I decided on Commvault, for being a safe, reliable tool with excellent technical support and was for sure the tool to cover all our needs. First we started with our physical servers and the following year …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Commvault is our flagship data management platform. We have a large Avamar presence but chose Commvault as our go-forward solution because of the array of features and capabilities that Commvault has that other products do not. We needed a full suite of data management tools …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Workload options for protecting client workloads are extensive and reliable. The pedigree of the application itself is solid, been around a long time, and they've learned a lot of lessons. The support structure for when we need support or help is superior to many other …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
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 …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has a better track record amongst peers. We also have peers in region that are switching from some of the for mentioned backup products. We also appreciate the constant development of new products that Commvault offers.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
It was cheaper and more flexible in regards to the features available to us.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Functionality and ease of use makes it easy to deploy/adopt and makes new hires on boarding process quicker.
Agents upgrades can be managed or automated via CommServe
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Commvault is easier to implement and maintain. And, the skillsets required to manage Commvault at an enterprise level are more prevalent in potential hires. Making it an overall easy transition decision to make.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
We initially compared only the two solutions, since at the time (2008) were the only two companies to provide NDMP support for NetApp (on the QVL at least). We selected CommVault since it did that and showed a superior approach to email compliance. Server backup was usually …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
[Selected CommVault based on] Features and options, licensing, easy to learn and adopt.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Hands down, CommVault exceeds the functionality of all products that we've evaluated. Few products bring together the comprehensive feature set that CommVault brings to our environment.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Unlike the competitors, CommVault is a one-stop backup solution that can absorb any application or platform. The best thing about CommVault is you do not have to babysit it like its competitors. Due to our complex environment, CommVault was able to steal the platform and …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Overall, Commvault is easier to implement and easier to manage than those products. The stability also seems to be must better. Upgrades are easily done on Commvault and can be done by the backup support team as opposed to relying on the system support teams. Reporting with …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
IBM TSM has Commvault beat in true HSM, but TSM is so complex to mange and run and is probably a tad lighter on resources, but not enough to warrant using it. NetBackup was the speed king for years, but after Symantec virtually abandoned the product their are years behind in …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Commvault is a one stop shop. it is a single pane of glass for your backup, archiving, and disaster recovery solutions. They are constantly improving their product and their support has been stellar. The backup agents and the ease of operation / administration is infinitely …
Veritas NetBackup
Chose Veritas NetBackup
From a stablity standopoint against bigger vendors , Veritas NetBackup has a upper hand , one being a pioneer in this field with vast number of years of experience.
Chose Veritas NetBackup
Backup solutions are largely dependent on your needs--one size typically doesn't fit all. In an all virtual environment, I would not choose NBU--I would choose Veeam. But in an environment with several different data types, I wouldn't hesitate to try out NBU.
Chose Veritas NetBackup
Veritas NetBackup provides a far better backup solution in terms of the available options and configurability of backups.
It's a more advanced backup tool compared to Data Protector.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIVeritas NetBackup
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
7.7
73 Ratings
6% below category average
Veritas NetBackup
9.9
17 Ratings
15% above category average
Universal recovery7.765 Ratings9.914 Ratings
Instant recovery6.761 Ratings9.913 Ratings
Recovery verification7.065 Ratings9.914 Ratings
Business application protection8.068 Ratings9.915 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.368 Ratings9.915 Ratings
Incremental backup identification7.073 Ratings10.017 Ratings
Backup to the cloud7.355 Ratings9.911 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression7.471 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Snapshots8.068 Ratings10.015 Ratings
Flexible deployment6.762 Ratings9.913 Ratings
Management dashboard8.663 Ratings9.714 Ratings
Platform support8.663 Ratings9.913 Ratings
Retention options8.061 Ratings9.913 Ratings
Encryption8.360 Ratings9.913 Ratings
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User Ratings
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIVeritas NetBackup
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(75 ratings)
9.9
(17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(8 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(12 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(52 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(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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(0 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 Cloud powered by Metallic AIVeritas NetBackup
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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Cohesity
Like most enterprise backup applications, Symantec NetBackup (NBU) suffers from complexity. Using and understanding advanced features can be challenging at times. Real world experience is needed to know if they are worth the time to implement. On the other hand I have found NBU relativity easy to use with a little training from just a simple backup scheduling and restore perspective.
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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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Cohesity
  • Upgrades are typically easy and normally have either no issues or very few that are easily resolved (wait a month or 2 before upgrading)
  • Using accelerator for the vm environment works well, and file level restores have been successful
  • Full vm recovery has worked every time
  • Backing up a physical server and restoring to a vm works as described
  • GRT Exchange backups are pretty easy, to setup
  • File level restores are simple
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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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Cohesity
  • Admin console
  • SAP HANA application Templates should also be introduced instead of scripting
  • SAP MAXDB application template should also be introduced
  • Tape Management need improvement
  • MOBILE connectivity is missing
  • Admin console is so simple it should be more funcky or stylish
  • Small database should also be considered for backup
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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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Cohesity
Veritas continues to keep up with the backup game. There virtual machine backup capabilities are now top notch, and I believe they will prove valuable when our cloud presence demands a backup solution.
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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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Cohesity
NetBackup provides a complete, flexible data protection solution for a variety of platforms. The platforms include Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems. NetBackup lets you back up, archive, and restore files, folders or directories, and volumes or partitions that reside on your computer.
During a backup or an archive, the client sends backup data across the network to a NetBackup server. The NetBackup server manages the type of storage that is specified in the backup policy. During a restore, users can browse, then select the files and directories to recover.
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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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Cohesity
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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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Cohesity
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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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Cohesity
Veritas support is very prompt and the acknowledgement/followup is hugely appreciable. They go deep to the issue and provide you satisfactory solutions. Creating ticket in portal is also very easy, does not adhere to severity priority, even if Sev2 response is very quick.
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In-Person Training
Commvault
Traning is very easy very helpful
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Cohesity
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Online Training
Commvault
Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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Cohesity
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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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Cohesity
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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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Cohesity
CrashPlan has the capability to sync data with a cloud storage source. This is great for a workstation where data is typically only for one user. However, Netbackup does a much better job for maintaining multiple levels of file restores for Enterprise Servers. Netbackup has a superior management console that does not rely on Cloud services in the event of an internet outage.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Commvault
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Cohesity
Veritas NetBackup is very expensive, and I think price is the main reason which some customers don't want to use this solution. The price is fair. Most people have felt this solution was somewhat expensive.
licensing model is based on the number of NetBackup clients, agents, servers, and options that NetBackup will be protecting or run on. A customer purchases the same number of licenses as the count of clients, agents, servers, and options.
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Scalability
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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Cohesity
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Professional Services
Commvault
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Cohesity
Education, Consulting and Managed services to keep our business running smooth.They provide the expertise needed to help you bridge the gap between excellent information management solutions and the information essential to help you reach maximum business value. They Meet information management goals with agility and flexibility.
Comprehensive 24x7 monitoring, management and support of your backup and archiving environments.
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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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Cohesity
  • We never experienced a significant system or data loss during the time we used NetBackup. We restored individuals files and small databases based upon user mistakes, but we never had to implement a DR plan. From that aspect, it is difficult to evaluate the ROI. Backups are a commodity service. Features are very similar across multiple tools. Once you decide to stay on-prem or move to the cloud, the list of options are narrowed. Then it becomes a matter of price.
  • From an administration and support perspective, the ROI is low. Vendor technical support is not always responsive. The first two tiers of support are not knowledgeable and their typical recommendation is to read the white paper. My small team spent a lot of time troubleshooting NetBackup, often without much vendor help.
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