We have two data centers and we have a Commvault server for replication in both. So in that sense, Commvault is not different from any other solution that already offers those kinds of air-gapped copies. Check out the latest news on Metallic O365 Backup now available through NetApp. Its a unified tool with various possibilities for automation. It also helps to ensure broad coverage through the discovery of unprotected workloads.

We can integrate our multiple CommCells in the single Web Console as well and that helps us easily identify how many servers are getting backed up and how many servers are not being backed up. They are also evolvingwith new technologies. There's no unified way to manage all of the products on one single console. In Holland, we have some installations with cloud connectivity. You can rely on Commvault solutions for the most complex and most demanding environments. Connect with our team to learn how Metallic Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) helps companies of all sizes from SMB & Mid-market to Enterprise reduce risk, safeguard against attack, and seamlessly navigate hybrid cloud environments with simplified management.

In the last round, the battle came down topricing, as well assome small features, and Commvault was the best in all the criteria. The console makes it easy to identify exactly what we need to see.

", "We do not use Command Center, but we are using CommCell Console. For more than 20 years, weve been innovating in pursuit of data management perfection so your org can simply be ready. From a licensing point of view, we now have one license which covers backup forthe whole organization. Commvaults coverage for applications, databases, and virtual workloads is very good.

I have recommended this solution to a lot of people based on the experience I had.

We are backing up eight petabytes of data. And sometimes we'll change our methods due to a new enhancement and they're invaluable in getting those things set up and working correctly. With Commvault, you have a lot of possibilities. With Command Center we can tell them, "Look, we're doing this much and we've had this many restores." You can buy a product, but you're only going to stay with it because of its quality and customer support. We have implemented the Commvault solution inside the cloud. Now, the virtual infrastructure administrator just has to add the VM tag on the virtual machine and that machine will automatically be backed up in the next schedule.

When we say were an industry leader, we better back that up.

It is quite easy to deploy.

Commvault was originally formed in 1988 as a development group in Bell Labs focused on data management, backup, and recovery; it was later designated a business unit of AT&T Network Systems.

Commvault has a strong track record protecting the integrity of workloads, and it hasmany different features needed in the corporate environment. If youre relying on vendor snapshots, you dont get a choice as to when or where snapshots are stored. You can really make wrong choices at the beginning that are not easy to repairwhen the whole system isin production. Veeam was a good solution for our VMware infrastructure,but we needed a solution with support for a wider variety ofinfrastructure types. I'm sure that they test, but our environment is probably 1,000 times bigger than their test environment.

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One is the Web Console, which issimple and has all the necessary functionality. This console from Commvault is very useful for segmenting the restore options.

I haven't seen any big issues or things that the solution is missing. We're paying for our licensing by the client, as opposed to the size of the footprint of the backup, which decreased our cost by about 20 percent. Before Commvault, we had two backup administrators who were using a backup and restore application to restore every test that we had to do. It didn't have support forthe latest technologies and platforms like Commvault. We focus on enterprise solutions in large companies in Columbia and the South American and Latin American region.

We have no problem if the file resides, say, on NetApp storage and we have to restore data to a workstation or some kind of Windows Server. It's a deciding factor that makescustomers and clients renew their licensesin a fewyears. Similarly, Commvault provides security solutions that have a lot of things, but we are not using any Commvault-based cybersecurity solution. That's one of the main reasons that we use Commvault. That saves a lot of money on storage and its maintenance. We came from two backup solutions, covering two types of servers, to nowhaving a global license based on the amount of tera or petabytes we have. One recommendation I have forpeople considering Commvaultis to explore all of the features the product offers. We havea general account with Commvault where we can open cases and get assistance.

It makes no sense to store completely cold data in fastmedia. It has to be recovery-protected in some way,in the event of an error or a tragedy or an attack.

These new technologies posechallenges for the backup environment. [24], Commvault provides consulting services for customers. When evaluating backup and recovery software, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for? But when looking at enterprise backup andrecovery options, Commvault is the easiest to use, and it has the widest range of features. Ransomware is a major problem these days, and whatever improvements they can make to be more secure on this is always good. sharing their opinions.

There's no unified way to manage all of the products on one single console. Butthat's why it is a perfect match for complex infrastructure, as itsupports all types of infrastructure. Try it out, with an easy walk-you-through setup. On one hand you have the budgets and the licenses, on the other hand, you have the technical needs. It can go very far with the number of media agents and its database. A unified solution combining Commvault Backup & Recovery with Commvault Disaster Recovery to deliver enterprise-grade data protection that is powerful and easy to use. Another benefit is that Commvaultminimizes the administration time. It is simplified compared to the way that it was a few years ago. We're consistently surprisedat the rate of innovation and the support that Commvault is putting into the product.

Still, if we raise a high-severity ticket, based on the criticality, Commvault support willdefinitely jump in. Cost-optimized backups and speedy recovery of unstructured data, protecting Windows, Linux, Azure Blob and Azure Files. I always refer my customers back to their own environment. In the past, we only needed to back up specific databases and certain network tasks. There is no dedicated person.

We have between 1,500 and 2,000 users.

Every month there is new support for new features and new workloads. They do their own backups using RMAN. Over the past year, I have faced challenges with one or two restores. Metallic is part of Commvaults Intelligent Data Services Platform that enables organizations to proactively simplify and manage the complexity of enterprise data. The second line of defense is that we are now in the process of implementing secondary, offline storage to ensure an air gap between the primary backup, the replicated backup, and the offline backup storage. Commvault's scalability isunmatched. You can rely on Commvault solutions for the most complex and most demanding environments. Hear from customers and experts to see how our tools can apply to your situation.

We're navigating and manipulating the entire environment by usingCommCell Console, andwe are comfortable with it.

The members ofthe support team are knowledgeable. From ascalability point of view, I haven't seen many challenges. ", "One of the most interesting aspects is that the licensing model can be modified. With the migration from Veeam and NetWorker to Commvault, the whole environment has becomeeasy for usbecause we have one tool. If they had a larger test area for their updates, that would help. Sometimes, for customers, the setup is difficult compared to Veeam,which we sometimes also sell to much smaller customers. ", "The most common feedback I get in terms of Commvault is that it can be complex. Across our four teams, it's saving us about 10 to 12 hours a week.

Thedata is much more extended, and the interactions amongdifferent technologies and services are more complicated, so data protection is more complex.

It is one of the backbone features of Commvault that helps in reducing the space consumed on storage devices, which reduces the storage cost. Thats cloud data migration that works for your changing business needs. SAP won't join a call and help us in resolving the issue. For us, it is easy because we work daily with it, but for customers who only use it once a week, they sometimes have some difficulties. For example, if you choose a virtual machine, you can restore the full virtual machine, you can restore the virtual machine on a different platform, you can restore just a virtual disk, or you can restore just a file within the virtual machine. Scalable, flexible cloud data protection aligns with your cloud first strategy. It's crucial tocarefullyconsider where you're going to deployand how you're going to divide the various segments of the product into different solutions so that you can comply with your business requirements. Commvault offers broad coverage by helping us identify unprotected workloads.

They maintain a very good SLA for critical andhigh-priority tickets. Some of the major ones are its backup, recovery, and data protection features as well as its centralized management. Sometimes the user doesn't know the file path. In terms of users,we are a team of six people providing 24/7 support.

There were two key points when wedecided to change. We just have to open a specific port so that the backup agent can communicate with the CommCell server, and the resources are backed up successfully. It is important for them to know, especially these days. If we haveany big upgrades, we will also upgrade the Commvault infrastructure. Comprehensively protect your CRM data with ease and precision in sandbox and production environments. I andmy colleagues across the globe are comfortable with usingCommCell Console rather than Command Center. They are also offering some cloud-based solutions for disaster recovery. We have a standby CommServe where logs are being deployed every five minutes. When we say were an industry leader, we better back that up. It is on-premises and alsohosted in thecloud. As new technologies develop, we have to prove that we can back them up or support and protect them. *eDiscovery Edition also available. It's a very good enterprise backup solution with multiple features. Veeam vs. Dell AppAssure vs. ShadowProtect. Be confident with rapid recovery and the flexibility to restore your environment from full databases or a single file. It is quite expensive when compared to other applications in the market. We had one issue. All data management activity in the environment is tracked by a centralized server, the CommServ, and can be managed by administrators through a central user interface.

We're also in the process of testing the backup of endpoints, such aslaptops and devices from end-users.

Recently, we implemented Metallic in our environment, and asa senior member of the team,my role in that project involved planning, designing, and coordinating with the vendor.

There are multiple costs involved. For example, we have their commission discovery, individual items recovery, mailbox recovery, databases, and different tables.

We back up all our infrastructure with this solution, from Active Directory toSQL, web servers, file servers, databases, et cetera. It's one of the essentials out there for that. [7][8] Mirchandani joined Commvault from Puppet, an Oregon-based IT automation company, where he served as CEO.

We cover all this with ourlicense and that is cheaper than other options. Wecan follow each action, including all the administration actions. Our experience with them was very good. I primarily still use the Commvault Command Center. We've had problems in the past where a storage person made an error and actually deleted a large chunk of storage, and we recovered it with Commvault. [13] In 2017, Commvault began to sell its Hyperscale Backup data protection appliances, following up a year later by adding high capacity Hyperscale appliances, and the standalone Remote Office Appliance. Hear from customers and experts to see how our tools can apply to your situation. The documentation has been pretty solid, too.

Some are easier to install but lack certain features. I wrote scripts to report information from the Command Center daily.

They were all disparate and they could not be put under one system where we could protect all ofthem. When the hardware is in place, the deployment of Commvault is not that difficult.

Once they have had some training from Commvault or us, they are really happy with the solution.

When people get their data encrypted, Commvault has a way to tell if somebody is being attacked through a cybersecurity threat because their data changes. Very few competitors have the scalability that Commvault offers. Gain flexibility Gain the freedom to choose when and how backups run.

Your data deserves the best! If you compare Commvault's user interface for managing on-prem, cloud, or multi-cloud environments in one placewith some of the newer stuff that's coming out, it may seem to be a little too complex. We're paying for our licensing by the client, as opposed to the size of the footprint of the backup, which decreased our cost by about 20 percent. Those features are really helpful to us in identifying and addressing issues.

When it comes to recovery, Commvault isundeniably one of the best technologies out there.

", "What is most valuable to me are the search features, where you can search through large backup data sets and find what you're looking for. But I think that those are the disadvantages of the factory features that have some room for improvement. No other vendor has such a wide range of solutions, including traditional on-premises workloads, cyber cloud members, and cloud links. One of the most interesting aspects is that the licensing model can be modified. When the user opens that old file, it's automatically restored and the user can access it. ", "the battle came down to pricing, as well as some small features, and Commvault was the best in all the criteria. We need70 to 80 percent less storage. For a beginner, it's really not the best tool. Commvault's File Storage Optimization, Data Governance and eDiscovery and Compliance solutions offer enhanced data management, data security, data governance and more to your customers. From the moment that we set it up, we mostly have customers telling us what they need to back up. Commvault offers its customers: Commvault stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. I've looked at other solutions but to scale themrequires multiple devices, dedicated appliances. Metallic Backup for Microsoft Dynamics 365. So we have to rethink or mix up different backup solutions and technologies. The product is really good for us. 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. Some of theother solutions we evaluated did not make it tothe second round because they did not support all the infrastructure we have in our environment. They can help us in one hour, at the most. We didn't find Command Center user-friendly. When you need it, you see it. At first, we did some manual tuning to customize it before deployment. That can sometimes be a barrier to implementingthe product in certain regions and specific verticals or certain kinds of customers that are very cost-sensitive.

That's a big feature right there. Maybe you don't need those things. I have been using it for approximately three years. That's all they did and they specialized in it.