COMMVAULT® CLOUD VS. VEEAM

When It Comes to Enterprise Data Security, Veeam’s Not All It Seems

Veeam promises to protect all your data at enterprise scale. But to deliver on that promise, they require a slew of add-ons that drive up costs and create vulnerabilities. Commvault Cloud delivers cloud-first cyber resilience that’s smarter and more adaptable than Veeam.

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Commvault vs. veeam

Cloud-first cyber resilience that delivers in every category

Commvault

  • Continuous testing and frictionless recovery

    Commvault Cloud Cleanroom Recovery gives you the ability to do frequent and comprehensive testing, enabling secure and quick recovery of applications into an on-demand cleanroom. Being able to fully automate and manage cleanrooms as a service takes the complexity out of cyber recovery readiness testing.

    The result?

    Superior readiness for attacks and outages, faster recovery, less downtime, and lower costs – all without the overhead of managing on-premise or hardware-based cleanrooms.

Veeam

  • Limited testing and recovery options

    Veeam’s limited capabilities rely on third-party applications and VM-level recovery only. They do not offer fully automated and managed cleanrooms as a service, forcing customers to depend on manual, complex, and expensive testing and recovery processes.

    The result?

    Complex, costly, and untenable requirements for readiness and recovery for the hybrid enterprise.

Commvault

  • Don’t just restore data – rewind and rebuild

    Cloud Rewind allows you to automate the backup, replication, and recovery of entire cloud environments, giving you the ability to rewind data, applications, and dependencies to a point before an incident, for rapid recovery in a single clicks.

    The result?

    Dramatically reduce time to rebuild public cloud environments after a cyber-attack from weeks to minutes with app environment level discovery, protection, rewind, recovery, and rebuild capabilities.

Veeam

  • Limited cloud resilience capabilities

    Limited to backing up and restoring data without the required dependencies, lacking comprehensive environment discovery. Requires scripts and manual execution or automated pipelines, which can be error-prone and time-consuming during a disaster.

    The result?

    Veeam’s backup and recovery capabilities are not built to protect and recover all the cloud resources used by dynamic, distributed auto-scaling apps, leaving you short of a full operational recovery.

Commvault

  • AWS data protection for a cloud-first world

    With rapid recovery that scales to petabytes of data and billions of objects, you’ll have the confidence that you can quickly and easily recover Amazon S3 or DynamoDB data in the event of an operational error, disaster, or cyber attack.

    The result?

    The ability to scale resilience seamlessly with your organization’s data, while providing the power of file level indexing that helps you find, protect and restore exactly the right data among billions of cloud files and objects, fast.

Veeam

  • Increased cost and restore times

    Veeam uses full-scale, point-in-time backups for DynamoDB, resulting in dramatically slower backup and restore times. Veeam does not support backup of data from S3, forcing customers to rely on a different solution – which increases TCO and operational overheads.

    The result?

    Increased backup costs, restore times, and management complexities.

Commvault

  • Built-in data security 

    Commvault builds core data security features directly into our code – no third-party applications or separate tools needed.

    The result?

    Continuous critical threat prevention features you can rely on.

Veeam

  • Dependent on separate tools

    Veeam boasts about “immutability everywhere,” but the truth is quite the opposite. Even basic backup immutability is limited – which is why they rely on third-party storage solutions to provide that functionality.

    The result?

    Increased risk that your backups are tampered with in the event of a cyber breach.

Commvault

  • Proactive for earlier detection and response

    Commvault Cloud provides a layered approach to threat detection, looking beyond the recovery environment to actively monitor the live data.

    The result?

    Earlier warning of potential threats and the ability to quickly mitigate any impact.

Veeam

  • Inactive: lacking in data security

    Veeam lacks the key features to harden their own solution, like multi-person authentication or even enterprise-wide ransomware/malware detection.

    The result?

    Limited detection means slower recovery and more risk to your data.

Commvault

  • Any workload. Anywhere.

    Commvault Cloud supports the broadest spectrum of data platforms, workloads, and cloud native applications. Commvault Cloud makes it easy to protect your cloud-native workloads and apps, SaaS, Kubernetes, and M365 data.

    The result?

    Consistent and integrated security for your data, wherever it lives.

Veeam



  • Veeam seems to have a backup product for everything – but that’s the problem. Each product is a completely separate solution, each with its own UI, infrastructure, and resource pools that you need to buy, build, scale, and maintain.

    The result?

    The more places your data lives, the more products, cost, and complexity you need to add, manage, and maintain.

Commvault

  • Resilience built to scale and grow with you

    Commvault Cloud customers can choose a mix of SaaS, cloud, virtual, reference architecture, and appliance to best fit their evolving business needs. With features like global deduplication, dynamic provisioning and power management that can greatly reduce infrastructure costs on-premises and in the cloud.

    The result?

    The ability to build and scale your environment with one solution, all at the industry’s lowest TCO.

Veeam

  • Don’t forget all the hardware

    Since Veeam lacks a true SaaS offering, customers must provide and pay for all the infrastructure needed to run the solution for M365 protection, cloud-native backup, and more. This can also include third-party virtual appliances and object storage. A hidden layer of TCO they don’t talk about.

    The result?

    More cost, less flexibility.

customer testimonials

What our customers are saying

“We evaluated other backup solutions like Veeam, but only Commvault Cloud had all the bells and whistles to enable fast and secure backup and recovery across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments in a single console.” 

Jayath De Silva

Greencap Senior System Administrator

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Important: The information contained herein was based on publicly available information as of the date this analysis was prepared. Commvault Cloud makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy of the information. Information about Commvault Cloud can be found in our product documentation and earlier versions. Specifications are subject to change without notice.