Vice President for Innovation and Technology at Oral Roberts University
Real User
Nov 2, 2023
I would rate Commvault Backup & Recovery ten out of ten. Commvault Backup & Recovery does not require any maintenance. I suggest conducting a fair evaluation, as it is very difficult to make a pure cost comparison due to the value that Commvault provides. Therefore, consider the full value that Commvault has brought to the table, not just data backup.
Principal Platform Engineer Storage/Backup at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Oct 6, 2023
I would rate Commvault Backup & Recovery ten out of ten. I would not consider expansions, configuration changes, or additions of more advanced features to be maintenance. Daily maintenance consists only of handling job failures, which involves reviewing and resolving them. This is simply a backup, which is unrelated to Commvault. It is the nature of things. No matter what product we use, there will always be failures. However, Commvault itself requires very little maintenance. I suggest that instead of looking for a backup solution, look for a recovery solution. Backup solutions are common and behind the scenes. No one ever sees them or pays much attention to them. People just assume that their data is being backed up. Restore, on the other hand, is a top priority for management. In a critical situation where the business cannot function, management will come to the backup team demanding recovery immediately. Fortune 500 companies can lose millions of dollars for every hour they are down, and the management's attention will be focused on the recovery team. The faster and more reliably we can recover, the more valuable our recovery solution is. As John Deere says, "It's not how well you recover. It's how fast you recover well." That's the biggest thing to consider when evaluating backup software. If we focus on recovery backup, Commvault Backup & Recovery will sell itself.
Systems Administrator III at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Oct 5, 2023
I would rate Commvault Backup & Recovery nine out of ten. We are not currently using Metallic, but we are investigating it with our Commvault team for our renewal in 2025. We are also renewing our hardware at the same time. Therefore, we are considering leveraging the Commvault cloud for additional protection, possibly as a tertiary copy with ransomware protection. We engaged with Commvault this year and conducted a ransomware readiness assessment. So, we are looking at Commvault Cloud as a potential location for an AirGap copy. Implementing Commvault is just as challenging as other backup and recovery solutions, but it is not significantly more difficult. I have two sites with storage pools at two different locations. One is a primary data center and the other is a secondary data center. I also have some cloud bucket storage. Commvault is used by me and my assisted admin team of 25 people. We provide backup and recovery services to everyone else. I perform maintenance on Commvault on a quarterly basis. I recommend taking a close look at using Commvault's software deduplication to write to a hyperscale storage pool, rather than spending a lot of money on a Data Domain appliance with dedupe in the hardware. We saw real cost savings with this approach. Additionally, the new Commvault Cloud subclient is very beneficial for protecting against ransomware, especially by providing air-gapped copies of data. This allows us to eliminate tape from our environment, which was a major goal for us.
I rate Commvault Backup and Recovery 10 out of 10. I would recommend Commvault if a company has huge backup needs and a sufficient budget. If the price isn't an issue, you shouldn't compromise.
We are still exploring the features since we are new users. We were using a different solution before Commvault. I joined the organization after we started using Commvault. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.
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I would rate Commvault Backup & Recovery ten out of ten. Commvault Backup & Recovery does not require any maintenance. I suggest conducting a fair evaluation, as it is very difficult to make a pure cost comparison due to the value that Commvault provides. Therefore, consider the full value that Commvault has brought to the table, not just data backup.
I would rate Commvault Backup & Recovery ten out of ten. I would not consider expansions, configuration changes, or additions of more advanced features to be maintenance. Daily maintenance consists only of handling job failures, which involves reviewing and resolving them. This is simply a backup, which is unrelated to Commvault. It is the nature of things. No matter what product we use, there will always be failures. However, Commvault itself requires very little maintenance. I suggest that instead of looking for a backup solution, look for a recovery solution. Backup solutions are common and behind the scenes. No one ever sees them or pays much attention to them. People just assume that their data is being backed up. Restore, on the other hand, is a top priority for management. In a critical situation where the business cannot function, management will come to the backup team demanding recovery immediately. Fortune 500 companies can lose millions of dollars for every hour they are down, and the management's attention will be focused on the recovery team. The faster and more reliably we can recover, the more valuable our recovery solution is. As John Deere says, "It's not how well you recover. It's how fast you recover well." That's the biggest thing to consider when evaluating backup software. If we focus on recovery backup, Commvault Backup & Recovery will sell itself.
I would rate Commvault Backup & Recovery nine out of ten. We are not currently using Metallic, but we are investigating it with our Commvault team for our renewal in 2025. We are also renewing our hardware at the same time. Therefore, we are considering leveraging the Commvault cloud for additional protection, possibly as a tertiary copy with ransomware protection. We engaged with Commvault this year and conducted a ransomware readiness assessment. So, we are looking at Commvault Cloud as a potential location for an AirGap copy. Implementing Commvault is just as challenging as other backup and recovery solutions, but it is not significantly more difficult. I have two sites with storage pools at two different locations. One is a primary data center and the other is a secondary data center. I also have some cloud bucket storage. Commvault is used by me and my assisted admin team of 25 people. We provide backup and recovery services to everyone else. I perform maintenance on Commvault on a quarterly basis. I recommend taking a close look at using Commvault's software deduplication to write to a hyperscale storage pool, rather than spending a lot of money on a Data Domain appliance with dedupe in the hardware. We saw real cost savings with this approach. Additionally, the new Commvault Cloud subclient is very beneficial for protecting against ransomware, especially by providing air-gapped copies of data. This allows us to eliminate tape from our environment, which was a major goal for us.
I rate Commvault Backup and Recovery 10 out of 10. I would recommend Commvault if a company has huge backup needs and a sufficient budget. If the price isn't an issue, you shouldn't compromise.
We are still exploring the features since we are new users. We were using a different solution before Commvault. I joined the organization after we started using Commvault. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.
I would recommend my clients to choose Commvault's accessible license. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.