Commvault Cloud vs Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comparison

Commvault and Microsoft are both solutions in the eDiscovery category. Commvault is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.4, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.8. Commvault holds a 4.4% mindshare in eD, compared to Microsoft’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Commvault users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 6, 2024

Commvault Cloud and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery compete in the realm of data management and eDiscovery. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery holds an edge due to its robust features, while Commvault Cloud excels in pricing and customer support.

Features: Commvault Cloud offers comprehensive data backup and recovery capabilities, highlighted as effective in data protection. It is also recognized for data integrity and security measures. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery provides advanced search functionalities, integrated compliance tools, and streamlined case management features, making it well-suited for detailed eDiscovery tasks.

Room for Improvement: Commvault Cloud could enhance its reporting and analytics capabilities, improve its user interface, and streamline integration processes. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery could benefit from better system integration flexibility, an enhanced user onboarding process, and more intuitive navigation within the platform.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud offers a smooth deployment process, and users commend its responsive customer service. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, while feature-rich, has a slightly more complicated setup but maintains positive customer service feedback, ensuring issues are addressed promptly.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud is favored for its reasonable pricing and is noted to offer a good return on investment over time. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, though more expensive, is perceived as delivering value through its extensive features and functionality, justifying its higher cost for those needing comprehensive eDiscovery solutions.

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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

7.2

Commvault Cloud reduced operational costs, improved data protection, and enabled significant return on investment with streamlined backup management.

Sentiment score

7.7

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery boosts ROI by improving data efficiency, compliance, risk management, and reducing legal and IT workloads.

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We have seen a 100% return on investment.

reviewer2595618

Senior System Engineer at a sports company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The ease of accessing necessary information promptly is the biggest return on investment.

John Alvis

Manager, Information Technology Operations & Security at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

It's hard to quantify the ROI in a dollar amount, but we realize value by doing more tasks in less time than we did before.

Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.2

Commvault Cloud's customer service is effective and responsive, though improvements are needed in staffing and local support options.

Sentiment score

7.6

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is praised for responsive support, despite some mixed experiences with wait times and outcomes.

The number of people who know Commvault Cloud is lesser compared to Veeam.

Kamal Gulati

Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.

At the pre-sale cycle, we have spocks aligned from Commvault with whom we get in touch, and they provide all the required support that we need.

Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

Customer support has very closed departments, requiring us to shuffle between them to get one thing done because representatives have limited accessibility.

reviewer1544721

Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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I would rate Microsoft Purview eDiscovery's customer service and technical support a ten.

reviewer2595852

Is admin at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

Commvault Cloud offers scalable integration across platforms, though faces challenges with SQL and Windows Server configuration complexity.

Sentiment score

7.9

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is scalable and efficient, seamlessly integrating with cloud infrastructures but lacks some search functions.

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It scales with us seamlessly.

Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

With the E3 licensing, I would rate the scalability of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery as a six because it lacks certain critical search functionalities.

reviewer2595852

Is admin at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Commvault Cloud is praised for its high stability, reliability, strong support, and minimal issues, ensuring continuous dependable operations.

Sentiment score

8.6

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is generally stable, with minor slowdowns, but users seek more transparency on performance issues.

I have not faced any downtimes with Commvault Cloud.

Kamal Gulati

Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.

Commvault Cloud is highly stable, and I would rate it a ten out of ten.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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For us, it has been one hundred percent reliable.

John Alvis

Manager, Information Technology Operations & Security at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is highly reliable.

Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

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Room For Improvement

Commvault Cloud users seek improved usability, clearer licensing, better support, enhanced integration, and advanced features for a streamlined experience.

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery needs faster, more efficient features, better integration, NLP for queries, and affordable pricing for users.

I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud.

Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

I feel that the support is not yet up to the mark, with not enough professional engineers to provide assistance.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Adding more features, as Microsoft continues to expand their cloud offerings, would be beneficial.

Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Defining what constitutes a credit card because that is where I get the most false positives.

reviewer2595618

Senior System Engineer at a sports company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders.

reviewer2595852

Is admin at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Commvault Cloud is cost-efficient for enterprises, yet can seem pricey for SMBs; evaluating licensing options is recommended.

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery pricing is complex, with E5 costly yet beneficial, while E3 is cheaper but limited.

Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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With CSP or MCE-style agreements with Microsoft, the process is streamlined since we have reps from both Microsoft and CDW working together.

Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

As an M3, I find the Purview pricing of 1250 per user worthwhile.

reviewer2595618

Senior System Engineer at a sports company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The pricing and licensing with Microsoft can be complex, and licensing is known to be a challenge because it changes frequently.

reviewer2596452

Enterprise Content Mamagement Lead Developer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Commvault Cloud offers scalable data protection with fiber backup, global deduplication, cloud integration, security, and centralized management.

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery ensures efficient data retrieval with multi-platform integration, automation, compliance visibility, and adherence to global data privacy laws.

We can back up unlimited TBs due to our per node license.

reviewer1544721

Support Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Other features include endpoint solutions, integration with Office 365, ransomware protection, archival for long-term retention, and no ingress or egress charges.

DarshanDivekar

CEO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The public cloud acts as a bigger solution for the on-premise while the on-premise acts as a DR for the public cloud workloads.

Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

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The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive.

Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Purview can connect to iOS, Mac, Android, and SaaS apps, which is critical for capturing SMS and MMS text message data.

reviewer2595852

Is admin at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Purview's inclusion of global regulations is critical because we're heavily regulated by FERC, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the SEC.

reviewer2596452

Enterprise Content Mamagement Lead Developer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in eDiscovery

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

112

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (4th), Cloud Backup (4th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (4th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (6th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

Ranking in eDiscovery

1st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the eDiscovery category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 4.4%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is 5.9%, down from 26.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

eDiscovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery	5.9%
Commvault Cloud	4.4%
Other	89.7%

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Featured Reviews

Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

Hybrid backup strategy has improved recovery orchestration and now supports flexible DR planning

I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically revolves around tiering of not frequently accessible data to glacier kind of storage, plus bringing in a high level of compression and deduplication capabilities. All those features I believe are there in other customers and they are bringing in new use cases from the AI perspective which I have not recently seen in Commvault. I have seen that Dell does have such features. We recently pitched a solution to the customers where we talked about data tiering and the other AI use cases, identifying the data by itself and autonomously taking decisions on how to tier the data between the different storage classes that we have. Those kind of capabilities that we have proposed to the customer as far as the partner solutions are concerned. I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud. The rest of the features pretty much align with the other enterprise solutions that we have in the market. It is just the AI capability that is being asked by the customers as well as that I see missing with Commvault.

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Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented the solution now take just 30 minutes.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms. It is critical for Purview to be able to connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices and data in other SaaS apps. From a support perspective, I can do things while I'm eating lunch or something else. It's more dynamic and responsive. I think everybody appreciates it. We're not tied to one device. Purview's multi-cloud capabilities are also essential for the same reasons. Keeping everything under one umbrella further increases the time savings. Purview accounts for critical regulations from around the world. This is crucial because we hold ourselves accountable to standards and need to align with them. Working at a law firm, we have clients who dictate to us what standards they expect. The visibility is excellent. As we move more things into the cloud, more opportunities exist to put everything under one umbrella.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Government

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	57
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	82

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ThreatWise?

Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.

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What needs improvement with ThreatWise?

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What is your primary use case for ThreatWise?

I work with a variety of backup solutions including Commvault, Avamar, Rubrik, and similar tools. I am part of Tata Consultancy Services where we pitch all these solutions to customers from the bac...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The setup process was very straightforward. We acquired pricing through our reseller in NASDAQ, eliminating the need to search for prices ourselves.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be benefici...

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

I sometimes use it for legal holds or to find lost items, and to determine what is going on. However, most of the time, my use case is legal-related.

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Also Known As

Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise

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Overview

Commvault Cloud offers comprehensive data management with strong backup and recovery, security, and compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud setups. Supporting a variety of applications, its cost optimization and integration capabilities enhance data management and infrastructure operations.

Commvault Cloud facilitates seamless data management and protection for organizations dealing with complex IT infrastructures. Its capabilities spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring robust disaster recovery and compliance, while optimizing storage strategies. Extensive application compatibility and integration with IT infrastructure solutions allow for efficient data movement and enhanced security.

What are the key features of Commvault Cloud?

Backup and Recovery: Reliable data protection across environments.
Data Management: Seamless operations in hybrid and multi-cloud contexts.
Disaster Recovery: Comprehensive recovery features.
Compliance: Ensures adherence to regulatory standards.
Security: Advanced encryption and threat detection.
Cost Optimization: Efficient strategies and resource utilization.
Integration: Supports a wide array of IT applications.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Data Security: Protects sensitive information effectively.
Scalability: Adapts to extensive infrastructure needs.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses through optimization.
Simplified Management: Streamlined for better operations.
Comprehensive Support: Enhances compatibility and usability.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and technology, Commvault Cloud supports the protection of virtual machines, databases, and physical systems. It facilitates Office 365, SQL, and VMware backups, ensuring disaster recovery and compliance, while meeting the demanding storage requirements and safeguarding data integrity per industry standards.

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery offers rapid search capabilities across multiple Microsoft platforms, supporting compliance with global regulations and improving data management efficiency for organizations.

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery empowers organizations to perform rapid content searches across Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and mobile devices. It enables keyword-based searches and automates content logging and tagging, ensuring privacy law adherence. This tool is designed to enhance visibility and legal compliance, featuring extensive data protection, native integration with Microsoft's ecosystem, and ensuring efficiency for collecting electronically stored information.

What are the key features of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

Rapid Content Search: Enables efficient keyword-based searches across multiple Microsoft platforms.
Data Connectivity: Ensures seamless integration within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Compliance Support: Provides features vital for adhering to global privacy regulations.
Automated Content Logging: Streamlines tagging processes to adhere to privacy laws.
Extensive Data Protection: Offers robust protection for sensitive information.

What benefits should users expect from Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

Increased Efficiency: Speeds up data retrieval and legal processing tasks.
Enhanced Compliance: Supports adherence to international regulations.
Improved Data Management: Streamlines the management of electronically stored information.
Time Savings: Reduces time spent on manual data searches and tagging.
Cost-effectiveness: Potential to lower overall compliance and data management costs.

Industries like legal services employ Microsoft Purview eDiscovery extensively for handling litigation requests and managing legal holds. This tool facilitates the retrieval and management of historical data, particularly during workforce transformations or information governance challenges, making it crucial for efficient eDiscovery workflows.

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Sample Customers

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

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