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Azure Site Recovery vs Commvault Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.7
Azure Site Recovery provides cost-effective, reliable disaster recovery with 30% time savings on VM management compared to other solutions.
Sentiment score
7.5
Commvault Cloud enhances efficiency and satisfaction by reducing costs, downtime, and simplifying data management with intangible ROI benefits.
Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.
Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
Azure Site Recovery support is mixed, with prompt service for some, but delays and expertise issues reported by others.
Sentiment score
7.3
Commvault Cloud's support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and tailored solutions, despite occasional language challenges.
Issues frequently require escalation.
We primarily rely on our Cloud Support Partner for support.
Customer support has very closed departments, requiring us to shuffle between them to get one thing done because representatives have limited accessibility.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Azure Site Recovery is highly scalable, effectively managing various enterprise sizes, though setup time may increase with server numbers.
Sentiment score
7.5
Commvault Cloud is scalable and efficient, praised for easy expansion but has minor SQL integration challenges.
Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Azure Site Recovery is praised for stability and scalability, frequently rated 8-10, despite occasional migration challenges.
Sentiment score
7.7
Commvault Cloud is praised for its stability and reliability, with minimal downtime issues and high user ratings.
I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery needs enhancements in error logging, pricing, compatibility, scalability, stability, synchronization, security, and support services.
Commvault Cloud needs UI improvements, cost-effective licensing, reduced complexity, better integration, enhanced support, and advanced cybersecurity.
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.
Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services.
 

Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery costs vary based on usage, making long-term budgeting challenging due to complexity and regular adjustments.
Commvault Cloud offers competitive and flexible pricing with cost-saving subscriptions, ideal for large enterprises despite perceived expense.
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.
 

Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery offers seamless disaster recovery with automation, scalability, and integration, though potentially costly for smaller businesses.
Commvault Cloud excels in backup efficiency, cost savings, cloud integration, centralized management, robust security, and storage optimization through deduplication.
Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.
Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
We can back up unlimited TBs due to our per node license.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
109
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (3rd), eDiscovery (3rd), Cloud Backup (3rd), File Archiving (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd), SaaS Backup (1st), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 23.5%, down from 25.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 11.1%, up from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes
First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
Cassandra Cinar - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time
We use intuitive administrative tools that readily reveal the volume of backed-up data. Our Commvault CommCell servers alert us to failed backups and provide detailed information. This transparency allows our managed service provider to easily grasp our pre-established thresholds and readily scale up with new technologies. We're highly satisfied with Commvault's automated data security and management policies. They meet our stringent requirements for secure and private data storage, including anti-ransomware protection and encryption. Notably, they also ensure compliance with GDPR for backups stored in Europe and other regions, fulfilling our regulatory obligations. Threat Scan's ability to scan backup data for threats is invaluable because it proactively identifies and neutralizes certain viruses and threats that may originate from our G Suite or be reported by our security incident response team, preventing potential outages. Commvault provides excellent visibility across our entire organization's data. They perform regular health checks, informing us of areas of strength and offering recommendations for improvement. These recommendations may include upgrading to newer product versions or addressing issues identified during the checks. It is important for our organization that Commvault provides a unified platform for recovery across cloud, on-premises, and software-as-a-service workloads. This is particularly important because many of our existing cloud environments rely on basic backups that are insufficient for our needs. Commvault empowers us to address this issue. We have implemented it not only in our own operating company but also across the corporate structure, rolling it out to virtually all AWS users. This is because the standard backup methods, such as snapshot backups, fail to meet our stringent requirements for recovery, service level agreements, and crucial functionalities like threat detection and other security features. Commvault ensures a robust and comprehensive backup infrastructure that satisfies all our essential needs. It has improved our organization by ensuring we meet our infrastructure requirements, adhere to our vulnerability methodology, and achieve service level agreements for both backup and storage requirements. The quarterly risk analysis allows us to effectively manage the lifecycle of both data and backups. It also sheds light on the types of data and backups we have, providing valuable insights. Commvault's risk analysis is one of the tools we use to meet our compliance requirements and implement the necessary controls for immediate security policy action. To ensure comprehensive data protection and comply with international regulations like GDPR, we rely on Commvault alongside our established financial systems and SOC-compliant practices. Commvault has helped us reduce our organization's data management costs by 75 percent, particularly for long-term backups. We ditched tapes and virtual tapes thanks to Commvault, replacing them with a fully disk-based backup system and cloud backups in AWS and Azure. By implementing Commvault, we've significantly reduced our backup times. This is achieved through a combination of incremental backups and data aging. Aged data is then moved to cheaper disk or cloud storage, ensuring cost-effective long-term retention while still meeting our recovery SLAs. While the overall time savings may be around 10-15 percent, the main benefit is not keeping everything on expensive primary storage and efficiently aging it out. Consequently, retrieving data from the Azure bucket typically takes five days or more, reflecting our agreed-upon SLA. It has reduced our recovery point objective, allowing us to store more backups. However, new regulatory and compliance requirements mandate that some backups cannot be deleted and must be retained indefinitely. To address this while still improving efficiency, we've implemented solutions for long-term data storage and improved data management practices. Commvault has helped our organization not only decrease our threat detection time but also improve threat prevention to such an extent that we often avoid facing the full impact of a threat altogether. By preventing these incidents, we're often unsure of the precise amount of time saved, but the benefit is clear: we don't need to activate disaster recovery mechanisms. It has not only helped us reduce our recovery time objective, but it has also ensured that our backups and long-term storage are secure, thanks to its comprehensive capabilities. In terms of total cost of ownership, Commvault has enabled us to significantly reduce both hardware and media costs for storage and backup. After factoring in encryption and compression, the total savings amount to close to 80 percent. It has been able to reduce downtime, but having a quick recovery plan and policy and SLAs that are published are met regularly.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective. Microsoft frequently restructures their pricing, causing us to adjust packages and subscriptions, whic...
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages. The support help desk needs to improve escalation procedures. Azure ( /products...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Commvault?
The tool is affordable. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. Implementation requires additional costs because we need Commvault Professional Services.
What needs improvement with Commvault?
Data center backup must be improved. We also want the product to provide us with a cloud-based backup. If we use Microsoft Exchange Online for email services, we want to know how to get a backup in...
What do you like most about Commvault Complete Data Protection?
IntelliSnap and file system backups are valuable features.
 

Also Known As

No data available
Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company
Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Site Recovery vs. Commvault Cloud and other solutions. Updated: March 2025.
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