Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI vs. OpenText Data Protector

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Score 7.1 out of 10
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Commvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A
OpenText Data Protector
Score 4.9 out of 10
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OpenText Data Protector standardizes and consolidates backups across multiple platforms. It provides secure, comprehensive backup protection for business-critical data and applications whether virtual, physical, or online in the cloud.N/A
Pricing
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIOpenText Data Protector
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Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIOpenText Data Protector
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Community Pulse
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIOpenText Data Protector
Features
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIOpenText Data Protector
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
7.1
Ratings
18% below category average
OpenText Data Protector
8.2
Ratings
3% below category average
Universal recovery8.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Instant recovery7.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Recovery verification7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Business application protection7.40 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations5.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Incremental backup identification7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud7.40 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression7.40 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Snapshots7.50 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Flexible deployment6.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Management dashboard7.50 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Platform support7.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Retention options8.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Encryption7.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIOpenText Data Protector
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
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8.3
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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8.4
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Usability
7.0
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8.0
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Availability
9.1
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9.1
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Performance
9.1
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8.2
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Support Rating
8.6
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6.7
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In-Person Training
9.1
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Online Training
9.1
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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9.1
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Configurability
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9.1
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Ease of integration
9.1
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9.1
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Product Scalability
9.1
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9.1
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
9.1
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User Testimonials
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIOpenText Data Protector
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery does its job well in any type of environment. The possibilities of backing up different types of environments with VMs, SQL, File Servers and their restore and disaster recovery process are extremely useful for any company.

It has a reasonable cost of implementation so I don't think it is the best idea for backing up smaller companies or simpler operations. The cost benefit may not pay.
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Well suited: scenarios with very specific backups schedules; backups saved in tape libraries. Less appropriate: environments with older Operational Systems and older hardware, such as tape libraries.
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Pros
  • Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery provides complete auditing. Having worked with many products in the past, most fell short on reporting. In particular reporting on restores. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery provides detailed information on operations that were performed, the account performing the operation and where was the data placed.
  • The flexibility of the product allows it to be more of a framework than a rigid application. By leveraging vendor specific API's, such as NetApp SnapVault/SnapMirror access, stronger integration and a more reliable service is produced. The workflow functionality and ability to utilize personal scripts helps administrators perform developer functions.
  • Support for aging technologies is a challenge for any large institution. Maintaining the ability to support old solutions, even in a limited capacity, is more desirable than bringing in a secondary solution or not support it at all.
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  • Micro Focus Data Protector has a very customizable backup schedule, allowing to edit the flat file according to our security policies.
  • Micro Focus Data Protector has a very easy to use interface.
  • We can update its clients in a very easy way.
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Cons
  • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
  • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
  • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
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  • I had light interaction with this system, so it would not be fair for me to say where there is a need for improvement. It worked the way we need it do to get the job done.
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Likelihood to Renew
It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
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It was just not a good fit for our organization. We have an EMC SAN, Data Domain backup storage, and VMWare. Without any other HP software or hardware in our environment I do not see the need to continue using a product that is not well integrated with our other brands
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Usability
It's a 9 only because it is very complex to administer. It would be good if they could transform the management console to be more user friendly, while keeping its functionality and wide range of features. But it is a very complete tool, with a lot of fine adjustments to your backups, thresholds, policies, backup destinations. We're really satisfied with Commvault protecting our environment.
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Very easy to use. What needs to improve is to make it easier to configure some integrations and features, such as office 365 integration, acropolis integration, block change-based backup, etc. Despite we have documentation, even following all the steps, the integration is hard to implement or doesn't work in the end.
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Reliability and Availability
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
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Performance
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
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The Reporting-Server and the Reports depend on the settings.
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Support Rating
The real winner of this company and application is its staff of support engineers and the management. Seriously, I could hate the application and despise using it and would still subscribe and deploy 100% across the company. No other company works as hard for its users as Commvault. Having a solid application on top of this is more than anyone can ask for.
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It is the weak point of this software, although it is improving little by a little. The first level of support does not solve almost anything until you move on to a higher level that is more involved.
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In-Person Training
Traning is very easy very helpful
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Online Training
Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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Implementation Rating
Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
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Pick one person to help you through the process.
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Alternatives Considered
Many other backup and recovery platforms have their strengths and weaknesses. They might specialize in backing up VMs but fail to adequately backup Oracle databases, or do well in the cloud, but not so well on-premise. In my opinion, Commvault handles the variety of clients and situations in most enterprise datacenters the best with features for efficient and effective backup policies, such as deduplication for managing storage of backups and use of hardware and software snapshots to minimize impact to production storage and compute resources.
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When selecting a backup solution for our virtual environment we chose HP Data Protector for its cost savings in licensing, our familiarity with the software and the ability to backup to disk, tape or both with the standard installation.
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Scalability
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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We use the tool in different installations and combinations of functions and hardware.
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Return on Investment
  • Disaster Recovery. We wouldn't be able to do it at all without Commvault.
  • We are looking continually for data management opportunities to use Commvault instead of other products. To date that hasn't been significant for us much as I personally would like to see inside our company.
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  • Positive: it maintains the stability of backups and recoveries of critical information.
  • Negative: there are some other backup applications that exist in the institution and have gained ground on other platforms.
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