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Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI

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What is Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI?

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.

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Commvault Cloud - Amazing Product

Rating: 5 out of 10
September 26, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We originally had issues with multiple SaaS products and were able to streamline them with Commvault Cloud. This application provided us with an all in one solution as well as...
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Director
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI1 year of experience

Commvault Metallic.

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 20, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using it to backup M365 data, such as OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. As we are already a Commvault customer, extending the services into the cloud was the natural cho...
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Manager
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI2 years of experience

Commvault Complete Data Protection is Dependable!

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 26, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Commvault Complete Data Protection has been our data backup and recovery solution for almost a decade now. Backups and Restores are simple and help us recover from file deleti...
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Analyst
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI5 years of experience

Commvault Complete Data Protection

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 5, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Backup all flavors of data in our environment with less costs and handover customers self-services
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Administrator
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI6 years of experience

Enterprise backup application which supports lot of workloads, robust and stable for complex environment

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 28, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Commvault Complete Data Protection being used to backup VM and SQL backup from storage which are larger in size like 15 TB VM Also we use Commvault Complete Data Protection fo...
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Verified user
Team Lead
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI10 years of experience

Metallic.io backup solution allows you to collapse multiple disparate systems for easier backup

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 7, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Prior to using Metallic, we had an on-prem backup solution through Dell. The existing infrastructure was aging out and the backup software was becoming unreliable. We also had...
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Verified user
Manager
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI1 year of experience

All about customer experience of Commvault Backup application

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 13, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using all of our production environment for backups and replications.
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Ali YAZICI
Supervisor - Information Technology
IT Service Manager
Kuveyt Türk Participaton Bank
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI8 years of experience

Robust enough for office 365 data backup but unappealing mailbox policies.

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 10, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Metallic is the software that not only backs up office 365 data but also helps us effortlessly retrieve deleted files and data. We use it across the company to run automated b...
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Verified user
Administrator
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI2 years of experience

Metallic is a Great Backup Tool!

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 28, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery is used in our environment to make sure we having a working and safe backup of our Office 365 environment. Their product ensures that...
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Technician
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI1 year of experience

Commvault Fits Almost Every Enterprise Datacenter Environment

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 9, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We currently employ Commvault Backup and Recovery in our high education institution as our primary backup, recovery, and DR platform for a variety of data classes and clients ...
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Chris Saenz
Engineer - Information Technology
Lead System Engineer
Azusa Pacific University
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI5 years of experience

Great way to overall backup and replication solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 14, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We have been using Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] for over 5 years in my company. We use the solution to backup part of our Virtual infrastructure and some file se...
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Ismael Pereira
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior IT Analyst
TechnipFMC
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI2 years of experience

A very complete backup tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 28, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is currently being used on one of our main datacenters, in Brazil. We use it to backup our NetApp storage with around 900TB of user da...
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Verified user
Analyst
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI5 years of experience

Commvault is a great backup & recovery solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 7, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] to back up hundreds of virtual machines across two big clusters; we also back up large Oracle databases via RMAN. We have med...
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Will Enestvedt
Manager - Information Technology
Unix Team Manager
Johnson & Wales University
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI10 years of experience

Good choice for an overall backup and replication solution to help keep your data safe.

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 6, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is currently being used by our company. We use the solution to back up our corporate data, email, and databases. Commvault Complete Ba...
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Lee Ludlum
Administrator - Information Technology
IT Technical Support Specialist
Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI3 years of experience

Commvault is a Top player in Complete backup and Recovery

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 3, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Commvault is an enterprise-level tool that we use to backup all kinds of workloads. I have implemented Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery in many Enterprise-level, Corpo...
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Shalika Senadeera
Engineer - Engineering
Senior Technical Support Engineer
South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI2 years of experience
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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.

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What is Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI?

Commvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of the hybrid enterprise. Commvault Cloud unifies cloud-based data security with rapid, enterprise-scale recovery and advanced AI to secure an organization's data, anywhere it lives, through a single pane of glass, and ensure a clean recovery.

Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI Features

Data Center Backup Features

  • Supported: Universal recovery
  • Supported: Instant recovery
  • Supported: Recovery verification
  • Supported: Business application protection
  • Supported: Multiple backup destinations
  • Supported: Incremental backup identification
  • Supported: Backup to the cloud
  • Supported: Deduplication and file compression
  • Supported: Snapshots
  • Supported: Flexible deployment
  • Supported: Management dashboard
  • Supported: Platform support
  • Supported: Retention options
  • Supported: Encryption

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Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

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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.

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The most common users of Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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CommVault is a versatile data management platform and backup solution that has been widely used by organizations around the world. With its comprehensive capabilities, it meets regulatory requirements for long-term data retention of 7+ years and provides access to datasets for recoveries and legal subpoenas. The software powers disaster recovery and business continuity plans for educational institutions, allowing them to back up individual VMs, files, and databases such as Oracle, MariaDB, Postgres, and MSSQL. CommVault also offers a unified view of backup processes across multiple platforms, replacing old tape backup software with a better interface and reducing support costs.

In the healthcare industry, CommVault provides reliable data protection for a variety of hardware and software solutions, meeting federal guidelines for data backup and recovery. It enables system administrators to manage restores remotely while empowering employees to restore data themselves. Additionally, CommVault offers secure file sharing, data protection, and remote backups over the public network. This software improves collaboration between departments and reduces data footprint through deduplication.

For enterprise-level organizations, CommVault is implemented to mitigate data loss and compliance with audit requirements. It supports various platforms and environments including MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, AIX, Exchange, VMware, Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V, Loutas Note, Windows FS/Unix FS backups, and cloud storage. Customers appreciate its user-friendly interface and single console solution provided by the CommCell console.

Overall, CommVault serves as a scalable and dependable backup solution that simplifies data protection processes while ensuring minimal downtime and high-level risk management for critical applications. It has restored confidence in backup solutions by streamlining the backup process and saving man-hours for IT professionals across different industries. Whether it's backing up physical servers or protecting cloud infrastructure, CommVault offers a hybrid cloud solution that meets the needs of both on-premises and offsite disaster recovery scenarios.

Versatile Backup Capabilities: Users have consistently praised CommVault for its flexible backup capabilities, with numerous reviewers highlighting this aspect. The software effectively manages a wide range of applications and databases under one product, simplifying data protection and management. This versatility allows users to streamline their backup processes and ensures comprehensive data protection.

Strong Reporting Tools: Reviewers highly value the excellent reporting tools provided by CommVault, with many expressing satisfaction in this area. These tools offer detailed information and insights, enabling users to monitor and optimize their backup processes effectively. The comprehensive reports generated by CommVault provide in-depth data on deduplication rates, compression rates, disk usage, and daily disk freeing.

Ease of Use: Users consistently praise the user-friendly interface of CommVault for its intuitiveness and easy navigation. Many find it straightforward to access the desired features and functions, enhancing their overall experience with the software. Additionally, CommVault's well-maintained detailed logs and catalog are valuable resources for accurate data restoration purposes.

Unintuitive Database Restore Feature: Several users have expressed frustration with the unintuitive and confusing user interface of the database restore feature. They mentioned that it requires extra effort to find the right combination of settings, leading to a time-consuming process.

Issues with Backup Completion Alerts: Users have encountered issues with the alerts upon backup completion not functioning properly. This has caused inconvenience and uncertainty as they are unable to rely on these alerts for timely information about their backups.

Restoration Process Termination Problem: Some users have experienced problems with the restoration process on the database side not always terminating after a restore fails. This issue can lead to confusion and delays in resolving failed restores.

Reviews

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Commvault Cloud - Amazing Product

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
September 26, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We originally had issues with multiple SaaS products and were able to streamline them with Commvault Cloud. This application provided us with an all in one solution as well as a flexible and easy to manager dashboard providing real time overview of our environment. Being able to use a product with an around the clock support system also helped with the financial funding for this product and being from a reputable company with world with footprint allowed our company to have peace of mind and secure our systems and provide streamline day to day management.
Pros and Cons
  • real-time threat analysis
  • all in one console for high level overview
  • around the clock global support
  • lower overal TCO
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault Cloud helped reduce the overall TCO, management and operations of our infrastructure having SaaS helped with the minimal standard up and operational requirements of the product. This was a saving for us and we didn't have to purchase additional hardware to stand this service up. The installation process was streamline, with onboarding taking a while. This product was suitable for an enterprise environment. I'm not sure small business would benefit.

Commvault Metallic.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using it to backup M365 data, such as OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. As we are already a Commvault customer, extending the services into the cloud was the natural choice.
Pros and Cons
  • No babysitting required. Just set and go
  • Easy to configure.
  • The rate of failure is almost zero.
Likelihood to Recommend
It does well in backing up the M365 data.

Commvault Complete Data Protection is Dependable!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 26, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault Complete Data Protection has been our data backup and recovery solution for almost a decade now. Backups and Restores are simple and help us recover from file deletions to ransomware attacks. We use it for pretty much anything you can think of.
Pros and Cons
  • Backups
  • Restores
  • Immutability
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for backups and restores of DBs, Filesystems, etc. Less appropriate for users who are looking for obvious UI cues and don't want to get into the sprawling layout to find a function.

Commvault Complete Data Protection

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 05, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Backup all flavors of data in our environment with less costs and handover customers self-services
Pros and Cons
  • Backups
  • Restore
  • Disaster recovery
  • Self Service
Likelihood to Recommend
Complex environments with mixed flavors of operating systems and/or different database flavors, mixture between physical servers and virtual, different hypervisors

Enterprise backup application which supports lot of workloads, robust and stable for complex environment

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 28, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault Complete Data Protection being used to backup VM and SQL backup from storage which are larger in size like 15 TB VM Also we use Commvault Complete Data Protection for backup of FS & Oracle DB We have selected Commvault Complete Data Protection for trunky VM and DB's which are difficult to backup fast
Pros and Cons
  • Large VM backup
  • Large SQL DB backup
  • Easy integration with Nutanix
  • Exchange Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Huge size VM & DB's on storage can utilize CommVault Storage snapshot feature for faster backup.

Metallic.io backup solution allows you to collapse multiple disparate systems for easier backup

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 07, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Prior to using Metallic, we had an on-prem backup solution through Dell. The existing infrastructure was aging out and the backup software was becoming unreliable. We also had multiple disparate systems that backed up additional infrastructure not supported by the Dell backup solution. This led to multiple portals to log on and multiple backup emails to review daily to confirm successful backups. We wanted a single backup solution that would give us a single pane of glass to monitor our backups. This includes Office 365 (Sharepoint, Email, Teams) as well as on-prem virtual infrastructure through VMware and IBM systems. Also backing up our on-prem file server.
Pros and Cons
  • Office 365 Backup (Sharepoint, Email, Teams)
  • Virtual Machine backup
  • File Server backup
  • Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Backing up multiple workloads in multiple environments. Able to easily scale and backup large datasets in both virtual environments as well as File systems. The Office 365 components are also very robust and able to set up and scale quickly. Using dynamic groups for Mailbox backup management is key to easy management.

All about customer experience of Commvault Backup application

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 13, 2022
AY
Ali YAZICI
IT Service Manager
Kuveyt Türk Participaton Bank (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
8 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using all of our production environment for backups and replications.
Pros and Cons
  • Backup
  • Restore
  • Automation
  • Policies
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault offers very good backup software for big enterprise companies. It also has archives and replications in single software. Additionally, we can use workflow for programming, write scripts for backups, monthly restore tests, get snap and mount on the storage, or whatever else. Reports are very useful and user-friendly.

Robust enough for office 365 data backup but unappealing mailbox policies.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
May 10, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Metallic is the software that not only backs up office 365 data but also helps us effortlessly retrieve deleted files and data. We use it across the company to run automated backups on a daily basis, and it has worked seamlessly with all office 365 applications. It is a flexible solution to back up and restore office 365 data in a secure way.
Pros and Cons
  • Produces virtual air-gapped copies to secure files further.
  • It is very simple and quick to configure the setup wizard.
Likelihood to Recommend
With the office 365 cloud storage being immense, locating files is very tiresome; that's why Metallic 365 stands out with the robust search controls to ease the strain. I constantly pinpoint data backed up with Metallic in just a few clicks. It supports all office 365 applications spanning (but not limited to) 365 groups, teams, and my favorite 365 SharePoint.

Metallic is a Great Backup Tool!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 28, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery is used in our environment to make sure we having a working and safe backup of our Office 365 environment. Their product ensures that everyone's entity in Office 365 is backed up and restorable. This is very important for us because we use Office 365 for user management through Azure and in case of any environmental we can restore easily.
Pros and Cons
  • We can create backup jobs that are easily manageable to control when the environment gets backed up.
  • No backup is good unless you can easily restore from it and Metallic does a very good job at organizing our backups and delivering a restored copy when needed.
  • We are able to restore multiple Office 365 tenants allowing us to test backup processes.
Likelihood to Recommend
Metallic Office 365 is well suited in situations where your Office 365 environment has any kind of external automation jobs running on it. In our situation we have a middle software reading and writing data to our Office 365 platform which in some cases can be dangerous if the information being written isn't accurate. In cases like this where we have automated jobs changing our Office 365 platform, we need a solution like Metallic to be able to take backups in case our environment is tainted.

Commvault Fits Almost Every Enterprise Datacenter Environment

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 09, 2021
CS
Chris Saenz
Lead System Engineer
Azusa Pacific University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently employ Commvault Backup and Recovery in our high education institution as our primary backup, recovery, and DR platform for a variety of data classes and clients across the organization. Our central IT team has used Commvault for backing up individual VMs, files at the file-system level, databases such as Oracle, MariaDB, Postgres, and MSSQL, as well as cloud resources like EC2 instances.
Pros and Cons
  • Organized policy-based configuration
  • Variety of client types
  • Deduplication of Backup Data
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Great way to overall backup and replication solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 14, 2021
IP
Ismael Pereira
Senior IT Analyst
TechnipFMC (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been using Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] for over 5 years in my company. We use the solution to backup part of our Virtual infrastructure and some file servers to tape. The possibility to implement it across many platforms such Virtual environment, File Servers and is a biggest challenges was to backup and protect data on a large scale of different environments but Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] is the best way to facilitate management and have a single view of backup processes. Our biggest challenge was to abandon our old tape backup software. Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] brought us a better interface and a greater reduction in support costs.
Pros and Cons
  • Simple interface
  • Virtual machines backup quickly and completely
  • Centralized management
  • Good Duplication ratio
  • Integration with NetApp storage and Esxi
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery does its job well in any type of environment. The possibilities of backing up different types of environments with VMs, SQL, File Servers and their restore and disaster recovery process are extremely useful for any company. It has a reasonable cost of implementation so I don't think it is the best idea for backing up smaller companies or simpler operations. The cost benefit may not pay.

A very complete backup tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 28, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is currently being used on one of our main datacenters, in Brazil.
We use it to backup our NetApp storage with around 900TB of user data (CIFS and NFS shares), it also protects around 100 general application VMs and our Oracle databases running on both OVM and Exadata.
Commvault has a great integration with NetApp storages (we actually started using for NetApp backups only, at that time it was sold with NetApp as a 'feature' called SnapProtect).
It allowed us to completely retire our tape libraries as now we run backups directly to Cloud object storages. It's deduplication algorithm works really well and ensures we only upload the modified data.
Pros and Cons
  • Deep and complete integration with NetApp storage.
  • Ability to backup data directly to Cloud object storages (BLOBS, S3, etc.).
  • A wide range of features and integrations to most virtualization platforms.
  • Integration with Oracle databases.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very well suited to large environments, where you have a wide set of different technologies.
In this scenario, Commvault is the most likely backup system to be compatible with all technologies/systems you use.
It's also very recommended to protect a large NetApp environment. They have a very good partnership and it is reflected on the integration between the two systems.
The 'price' for it is that Commvault is a complex tool to implement and manage.
It works in a different concept from the other backup tools in the market. It's not 'job-oriented', but 'policy-oriented.'
It brings some headaches to those who dont have much experience with Commvault. To administer large environments, I would recommend to look for someone experienced on it.
We did it a few years ago, and this guy did a really good job improving our backups.

Commvault is a great backup & recovery solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 07, 2021
WE
Will Enestvedt
Unix Team Manager
Johnson & Wales University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] to back up hundreds of virtual machines across two big clusters; we also back up large Oracle databases via RMAN. We have media agents at two different data centers, and replicate our backups to an off-site colocation facility for DR. In the past we had run host-based backups, but have switched to covering entire VMs. All of our central IT assets are covered. It provides us the ability to recover entire systems as well as our major line-of-business applications.
Pros and Cons
  • Backs up virtual machines quickly and completely.
  • Integrates well with Oracle's built-in RMAN tools for recovery & cloning, making success much more likely.
  • Produces really good logs.
  • Runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with minimal changes to the clients.
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault [Complete Backup & Recovery] does well in large environments, with assets that are geographically distributed. It scales up well. The reporting is kind of ugly, which makes it harder to share simplified reports with less-technical users. The logs are very verbose, which is helpful both to their support staff as well as to experience users & administrators. Administrative rights can be controlled very granularly, making it easy to delegate limited responsibilities to operators.

Good choice for an overall backup and replication solution to help keep your data safe.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 06, 2021
LL
Lee Ludlum
IT Technical Support Specialist
Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics (Airlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is currently being used by our company. We use the solution to back up our corporate data, email, and databases. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery helps address our backup and recovery needs across our organization. We have Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery set to back up our data once an hour. All corporate data is backed up each hour. You can set the SLA to meet your needs.
Pros and Cons
  • File level restore
  • Retains permissions
  • Hourly backups
  • Replication off site
Likelihood to Recommend
Does an awesome job for file-level restores. I have used it to restore files, folders, emails, and a database. We have not came across anything that is not appropriate for Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery to be backing up. When restoring a file you have to select the path twice, which would be the only negative.

Commvault is a Top player in Complete backup and Recovery

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 03, 2020
SS
Shalika Senadeera
Senior Technical Support Engineer
South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. (Information Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault is an enterprise-level tool that we use to backup all kinds of workloads. I have implemented Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery in many Enterprise-level, Corporate banks and financial companies to mitigate their data loss and compliance with their audit requirements. I have implemented it across many platforms such as MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, AIX, Exchange, VMware, Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V, Loutas Note, Windows FS/Unix FS backups and many cloud storage and virtual environments. Commvault DR option as well. We especially used Backup replication (Dash Copy), VM Replication (Live sync) and DB replication and VM life cycling process. Customers like the Commvault CommCell console, it is a single console solution.
Pros and Cons
  • Commvault has better Duplication ratio.
  • Commvault is good at reports and audit trails. We won't miss anything which is required for our audit.
  • Support team is very responsive and provides confidence in solutions and good follow through until the problem is rectified or solved.
  • It does not have any agent for Zimbra mail backup.
Likelihood to Recommend
CommServe can manage backups for virtual machines via VSA without installing agents on virtual machines (non-application aware backups).

Commvault Complete - The complete data protection and management solution!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 29, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
15 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Commvault to manage our customers enterprise data protection needs as well as in our managed services offerings to customers. We use Commvault to protect physical servers, virtual servers, applications and NAS devices.

We also use the private metrics reporting feature to provide standardised reporting for all of our customers.
Pros and Cons
  • Supports integration with a wide range of applications, storage arrays, hypervisors and cloud targets.
  • Supports a wide range of media targets, disk, tape and cloud and allows global deduplication of all data to minimise footprint.
  • Single pane of glass to manage.
  • Excellent Support!
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault does a great job at protecting enterprise workloads either in the data center or in the cloud. Its wide range of support for applications, hypervisors, operating systems and cloud means it really is a "one size fits all" from a product standpoint. If you have a hetrogeneous environment then it is by far the best product in the market because of its wide integrations.

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 24, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Commvault across our entire company. In the US, we have each location split as a division. Each division has its own media agent, storage, and permissions group. All reports go to divisional directors and staff as well as visuals for Command Center. This setup isolates each location to only be able to view their items. This reduces stress on local staff and allows me and my team to focus on big-picture disaster recovery. This setup really helps with off-loading restorations and live data to other divisions as tests or failover scenarios.
Pros and Cons
  • Backup
  • Reports
  • Duplication
  • Options
Likelihood to Recommend
I feel that Commvault's Active Directory Recovery and Testing of the recovery could be improved, but this could very well be a situation where I am not fully understanding the scope. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is spot-on in all other areas and will be a perfect fit for anyone with a decent-sized IT footprint.

Why Commvault against competitors

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 07, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault is our core Backup Enterprise tool, used to backup more than 1200 VMs and more than 120 physical Servers. It yearly addresses around 60 to 90 restores or recoveries.
Pros and Cons
  • It cover all our OS and application scenarios, both virtual and physical.
  • Brings us "peace of mind" on a reliable tool.
  • Have a very good support organization with really qualified technicians.
Likelihood to Recommend
It needs know-how, but for sure is "the" enterprise tool that covers all our needs.

Calm-Vault

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 03, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault is our enterprise solution for backup and recovery. It primarily is used in the intel and power environments.
Pros and Cons
  • Reliability
  • Manageability
  • Availability
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault works well in a granular recovery situation. The misconception that backup and recovery is disaster recovery needs to be communicated effectively to the organization.

Your Commvault solution awaits....

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 03, 2020
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We utilize Commvault as a service along with hardware that meets Commvault specifications.
Some of the business problems addressed are the ability to protect Hourly Transaction Log jobs, HANA, Oracle coverage, SAN Intellisnap operations.
Pros and Cons
  • The customer support team is bar none. I always have confidence that any issues that arise will be resolved.
  • Interface is very intuitive.
  • Excellent reporting (both canned & custom)
  • Logs are very detailed.
  • Workflows, API access allow for automation
  • Supports a multitude of legacy applications as well as bleeding-edge & current systems
Likelihood to Recommend
I've supported many backup applications, where most other backup solutions cause pain-points Commvault comes out ahead. If your organization doesn't fit the mold of out-of-box or cookie-cutter solutions, Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery offers custom solutions.

Commvault: Complete BaaS solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 02, 2020
AS
Adnan Sadique
IT Specialist - Data Protection
CCL (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
CCL/Revera's Backup-as-a-Service (BAAS) offering uses Commvault as its Backup & Recovery solution. The good thing about Commvault is that it covers all sorts of customer backup requirements and have a very flexible restore option. For example, we can backup supplicated databases (like DB2, SQL, Oracle, etc) using Application iDataAgent and if required, we can export backup data in application native formats.
The backup data replication and storage policy setup architecture makes Commvault the top product as you can tailor your storage policy depending on any requirements. The Global Deduplication feature offers exceptional savings.
Pros and Cons
  • Single pane of glass for effective centralized management
  • Outstanding and very responsive customer support
  • Support for both legacy and emerging applications
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery can easily support large and complex environments, geographically scattered across multiple Data Centres, as we have. You can manage/monitor everything up to the central management console. You can easily set up a multi-tenanted BaaS model and segregate backup data into individual tenant-based storage policies if required.

My Commvault review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 01, 2020
CB
Colin Bogan
Data Protection Team Manager
CBTS (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
10 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As a managed services provider, we use it both internally for our corporate backup solution as well as sell it as a service to our managed services customers. Commvault is used primarily for data protection, but we also use it for archiving and endpoint protection.
Pros and Cons
  • Virtual Server backups
  • SQL backups
  • Archiving
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault is very well suited for our situation where we are deploying MediaAgents and storage at a customer site, backing up their data, and then replicating those backups to a secondary site (cloud, hosted data center, or second customer site). The auxiliary copy capabilities, ransomware protection, and granular control for each copy make Commvault a very reliable product.

Reporting and alerting are major advantages that Commvault has over other products we support. With so much capability built into the product, we don't have to rely on 3rd-party tools to help us manage our Backup As A Service offering.

Commvault in my company

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 01, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
9 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is used at DaVita to ensure our data protection meets Federal guidelines and supports our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Needs.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is well suited for our environment, which has a huge number of different Operating Systems that need protection. One less appropriate scenario for Commvault is trying to improve as a DATA mover instead of just a backup/restore/DR. CommVault has all our data, but the tools to manage data such as legal searches and migration of VMware is lacking--it's there, but other tools do a much better job. If Commvault is going to become a leader in DATA and not just backup/restore, they need to really improve these data tools to be industry leaders, not just an add-on to backup.

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery review from an MSP/CSP perspective

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 01, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We utilize Commvault as a service offering to our client base and have done so for the past 10 years, delivering a data protection service that is the largest in the country.
Pros and Cons
  • Reliability
  • Options for protecting different workloads
  • Support structure with ESP and TAM
  • Development cycle and adoption of client requested modifications/enhancements
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is best where a managed service offering needs to be built to provide service for clients. Especially where there is the requirement for long-term retention of data, Commvault is by far the leader of this piece of the puzzle in particular.

With Commvault, One Size Does Fit (Almost) All

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 01, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We host servers for many Oregon governmental agencies. The backup team is responsible for providing the necessary backups for these agencies to ensure the safety of Oregon's data assets.
Pros and Cons
  • Commvault supports a wide variety of operating systems and applications.
  • Product support from Commvault is excellent.
  • It can be scaled up to handle large organizations.
  • Constantly providing fixes and improvements to the product.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a diverse environment that supports AIX, Linux, Windows, and multiple databases or other applications, Commvault is hard to beat. They really do cover lots of platforms. This keeps you from having to run many different applications just to do backups. However, if you are a smaller shop, or maybe a VMware only shop, I think there are better choices available.
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