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Commvault Cloud vs Rubrik comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 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
7.6
Commvault Cloud lowers costs and boosts efficiency by simplifying backup management, enhancing compliance, and optimizing resources.
Sentiment score
7.2
Rubrik enhances operational efficiency and cost savings, outweighing initial expense concerns through time savings and improved data protection.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Commvault Cloud's customer service is praised for speed and expertise but faces criticism for documentation gaps and communication issues.
Sentiment score
8.2
Rubrik's support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, though some note occasional delays; overall satisfaction remains high.
Customer service and support for Rubrik are rated an eight out of ten, indicating a good level of responsiveness and assistance.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Commvault Cloud offers scalable solutions for enterprise environments, efficiently managing data and applications with flexible, seamless integration.
Sentiment score
7.9
Rubrik is praised for seamless scalability, ease of expansion, and flexibility, making it ideal for diverse environments.
Rubrik is highly scalable, with a rating of nine out of ten based on its seamless integration.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Commvault Cloud is praised for its reliable stability and effective backup, with minimal downtime and swift bug resolution.
Sentiment score
8.1
Rubrik is highly stable and reliable, offering efficient support, though some software limitations exist for large user groups.
 

Room For Improvement

Commvault Cloud requires interface, usability, automation, and security improvements, along with better integration, licensing, support, performance, and pricing.
Rubrik needs improvements in GUI, error reporting, integration, support, pricing, security, and a more intuitive interface.
 

Setup Cost

Commvault Cloud offers flexible licensing with comprehensive features, making it valuable despite higher costs, enabling predictable enterprise budgeting.
Rubrik's high cost is justified by its operational ease, comprehensive features, integrated solutions, and reduced management time for enterprises.
Rubrik is considered expensive, with a price rating of three out of ten.
 

Valuable Features

Commvault Cloud offers efficient data management with robust security, seamless integration, and disaster recovery across hybrid environments.
Rubrik excels in instant recovery, user-friendly interface, security, scalability, seamless experience, and strong integration with flexible features.
The most valuable feature of Rubrik is its concept of a 'backup airbag', which provides a robust defense against attacks.
 

Categories and Ranking

Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
3rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
2nd
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), File Archiving (2nd), SaaS Backup (1st), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st)
Rubrik
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
4th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
4th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
4th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 7.1%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rubrik is 7.8%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 05, 2018
 

Featured Reviews

Matt Reller - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides extremely fast backup, is easy to manage, and is flexible
Commvault Cloud's automated policies provide the notification we need to ensure our data is secure and managed correctly. Commvault Cloud provides excellent visibility across all of our organization's data. It is extremely important to our organization that Commvault has a unified platform that offers recovery across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS workloads. It has helped our organization improve by simplifying the way we manage our environment. We could not manage the same environment with only half of our current staff. We have yet to find anything in our environment that Commvault does not support. Commvault Cloud's Risk Analysis helps us identify, categorize, and classify sensitive data enabling us to take the appropriate actions to protect it. Commvault does a good job helping us limit our exposure and ensure compliance. Commvault has helped us reduce our data management costs significantly. Compared to Dell Avamar, the costs are vastly different. Commvault is much more cost-effective. We are licensed by capacity, so we don't have to worry about licensing different features. We have all the features that are licensed by capacity. And as far as ongoing support costs and other expenses, they are much lower than what they were with Dell Avamar. Commvault also gives us the flexibility to use any storage we want, while Avamar is tied to the Data Domain, which is not cheap to support. It has helped us reduce our backup time unless we are using Data Domain. This is because we can perform deduplication and compression on the client layer, which reduces the load on the network. We cannot do this with Data Domain. In fact, if we even attempt to perform a quick progress check before sending data to the Data Domain, the system fails completely. We learned this the hard way. We are using many more advanced features in Commvault Cloud than we ever did in Dell Avamar, simply because we had to license each feature separately in Avamar. As a result, we did not perform many backups in Avamar, such as all database backups (DB2, SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL). These backups were performed outside of Avamar. We are now using Direct Connect agents for all of our databases. This allows us to perform incremental backups, which we could not do with the previous method. As a result, we have reduced our backup times by two-thirds, or even more in some cases. Compared to when we were backing up directly to Data Domain, Commvault is now running our backups ten times faster. This has resulted in a significant reduction in our backup times. Commvault has helped us reduce the RPO. Even in Data Domain, it has reduced our storage times by about half. It has also helped us reduce the threat detection time. We reduced the RTO significantly with Commvault. Commvault has helped us reduce downtime primarily due to the increase in the performance of resources.
CarlosCastells - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to do backup, easy to deploy and scalable
I have experience with different solutions like Oracle, Veeam, andCommvault Cloud. Right now, we are testing a solution for Kubernetes. We are trying to replace it, so we just don't know yet. I don't really know if Rubrik is a good solution for this. We are testing Velero (Open Source) or Kasten K10, and I don't know Rubrik's view for this type of technology.
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Answers from the Community

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018
If you would like a solution that requires constant babysitting and restarting agents, then Commvault is for you. If you would love to be upsold to backup more than your backup server can handle, then Commvault is for you. If during that process you would like your deduplication engine to die, and lose the ability to use all of your backups, then Commvault is for you. If you would like somet...
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CK
Aug 7, 2018
The answer is it depends on your individual situation both products have their merits.
JM
Aug 7, 2018
We looked at Commvault and Rubrik and ended up going with Cohesity. We are using it both to store backups and as a file server to replace windows file servers so Cohesity was the best fit for us.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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.
Which would you choose - Rubrik or Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam Backup & Replication provides an easy-to-set-up solution to the issue of data storage and recovery. Setting it up is a relatively simple affair. For the most part it prompts you from scre...
What do you like most about Rubrik?
It's easy to manage and has an innovated solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rubrik?
Rubrik is considered expensive, with a price rating of three out of ten. Improvements in pricing and licensing would be beneficial.
 

Also Known As

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

 

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
Driscoll's, Red Hawk Casino, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Wabash National, Chateau Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Galliker Transport & Logistics
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