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Feature/Capability Commvault Veeam

Threatwise + Threatwise Predict, Veeam has no proactive warning

As little as 5 minutes. Commvault's capabilities, which means
proactive warning capabilities customers have to wait till the
1 Early Warning provide actionable alerts within backups are running, for alerts.
minutes, allowing customers to There are no real-time insight
rapidly respond to emerging risks into potential threats before
and prevent escalation. they reach critical systems.

Inline Ransomware Scanner

ThreatScan can automatically
(v12.1) tags the anomalous
2 Cyber Readiness quarantine infected data to isolate
backup and blocks the infected
threats.
backup to isolate threats.

Ransomware detection in backup

Veeam's ransomware
data is available on-premise (SW)
detection/recovery features
and in SaaS.
(v12.1) can be used even if the
3 Ransomware Detection
network is unavailable or if they
It can be used in secure and dark
isolate to prevent spread of
sites or when internet is cut off to
malware.
prevent spread of malware.

Data Security
 Without data masking, sensitive
Mask sensitive data prior to
information, such as personal
external transfer from the backup
identifiable information (PII),
repository. Data masking
financial data, and protected
effectively protects sensitive data
health information (PHI),
stored in backups, reducing the
remains unencrypted and
risk of data breaches and
4 Data Masking exposed in backups. This can
unauthorized access. By replacing
make backups a prime target for
sensitive information with
cyberattacks, increasing the risk
fictitious or randomized data,
of data breaches. Note: A script
organizations can safeguard
to anonymize VBR log has been
Data Security confidential information even if
created by a user in Veeam
backups fall into the wrong hands.
Community but not by the OEM

Commvault Risk Analysis provides Veeam has no data classification

a broader data analysis by solution. Without this
evaluating risk across files, information, organizations may
databases, SaaS apps and backups. struggle to restore the most
Data classification allows important data in a timely
5 Risk Governance
organizations to identify and manner, hindering business
prioritize critical data for recovery. continuity.

Commvault utilizes ML to improve

risk detection over time.
 Veeam currently lacks
ransomware recovery
capabilities that fully isolate
Commvault offers a ransomware- restored data from compromise.
resilient cloud-based recovery Without an isolated cloud
Ransomware-resilient
6 target (Cleanroom-as-a-service) recovery target, customers lack
Cloud Workspace
helping organizations rapidly assurance that recovery will
restore operations after an attack. evict ransomware from the
restored environment. This can
force organizations to pay the
ransom to regain access.

SaaS platform (Metallic) is on track

to achieve FedRAMP High
Cirrus by Veeam platform has
7 FedRAMP High certification (425 controls),
no FedRAMP status.
demonstrating the ability to secure
highly sensitive government data.
Compatibility is constrained to
Commvault provides the most
fewer operating systems,
extensive coverage for diverse
databases, applications, and
infrastructures.
cloud platforms.
8 Hybrid & Multi Cloud Customers will need to procure
Commvault offers the most
add-on solution to fill the gaps,
flexible backup capabilities across
increasing data silos,
on-premises, hybrid, and cloud
operational overheads and
architectures.
overall TCO.
Deep integration with leading
Integration with leading cloud
cloud native services and
9 Cloud Native Backups native services and coverage for
comprehensive coverage for cloud
cloud native workloads.
native workloads.
 Commvault supports Azure, AWS,
Veeam has separate backup
GCP, OCI, and Alibaba Cloud. We
tools for Azure, GCP and AWS
10 Hyperscaler Support are the only vendor that supports
backup, with their own UIs,
Azure Restore Points even even
versions, and limitations.
better TCO
Built-in backup and recovery for
Veeam Backup for Azure, AWS,
Workload Support Kubernetes running on-premises,
GCP and Cirrus Backup for Azure
in the cloud, or in managed
provides only snapshot backup
Kubernetes PaaS environments
of VMs (no application
such as Google (GKE), Amazon
awareness).
(EKS), and Azure (AKS).

Kasten's software solution is

11 Containers/ K8s
wholly separate from the rest of
Commvault is still the only non- the Veeam portfolio with very
niche vendor named as a Leader limited integration between
and Outperformer in the 2023 them. Independent analysis like
GigaOM Radar for Kubernetes Data GigaOm reports have rated
Protection. Kasten and Commvault as
"Outperformers" in the GigaOM
report for Kubernetes backup.

Self service restores, M365, Azure Just M365, no Azure AD,

12 M365 Support
AD, no hidden fees, unlimited storage
Fully managed SaaS 4+ M365, dynamics, Azure AD,
13 2 - M365, Salesforce
workloads Salesforce, + more
Commvault HSX drives 333 Veeam relies heavily on manual
streams per node. configuration and in-depth user
The parallel streams allow high knowledge to achieve adequate
performance by distributing scalability for backup and
14 Backup & Restore Scale
workloads across nodes. recovery. Users have to set up
extra proxies and tune resource
allocation across various media
agents. However, this approach
 configuration and in-depth user
knowledge to achieve adequate
scalability for backup and
14 Backup & Restore Scale
recovery. Users have to set up
Support for 333 streams per node extra proxies and tune resource
provides linear scalability as the allocation across various media
cluster scales out. agents. However, this approach
Veeam, similarly launches
Worker instances when
Cloudburst Recover utilizes
performing a backup or restore
serverless computing, AI-optimized
operation, and keeps the
parallel processing, and
15 instances running for the
infrastructure-as-code to enable
duration of the operation. This
rapid recovery of workloads into
enables workload and traffic
the cloud.
distribution when trasferring
data.
Commvault's IntelliSnap supports a Veeam, comparitively, supports
Rapid Recovery broad range of applications and a limited range of applications
platforms for application- and storage platforms for
RTO consistent snapshots without application-consistent
disruption. snapshots.
16 Supports indexing and granular Supports indexing and granular
recovery. recovery.
This allows quick restore of This allows quick restore of
entire/selected filesystems and entire/selected filesystems and
databases within moments of databases within moments of
failure, without administrator failure, without administrator
intervention. intervention.
Commvault DR automation
delivers more robust and holistic Orchestrating DR for multiple
protection across hybrid workloads shortens Recovery
environments and diverse Time Objectives.
workloads.
Orchestrated Disaster
17
Recovery
 Orchestrated Disaster Veeam supports Azure and
17
Recovery Vmware, Hyper-V for DR
Commvault supports Azure, AWS, orchestration. Limited
GCP, OCI, and VMware, Hyper-V, supported environment would
Nutanix for DR orchestration. impact RTO in hybrid
environments with diverse
workloads.
Veeam's approach quarantines
the full backup containing
By quarantining only the affected
malware rather than isolating
files, file-level quarantine precisely
only infected files. While this
contains threats while enabling
blocks the threat, it also
RPO 18 Granular Containment continued access to unaffected
prevents access to uncorrupted
business data. This minimizes
data in the backup. Recovering
disruption and allows for selective
from an earlier, uninfected
restoration of needed data.
backup snapshot increases the
Recovery Point Objective.

Veeam's deduplication is job-

level. This results in lower
reductions versus Commvault
On-prem and in cloud; Supporting
that pools backup data globally
deduplication across environments
across workloads. Instead,
19 Deduplication provides more complete data
Veeam relies heavily on
optimization, cost savings,
integration with deduplicating
flexibility and scalability.
storage devices to achieve space
efficiency. This results in
increased costs, higher TCO.

TCO
 Commvault offers flexible, granular Veeam also offers flexible,
licensing of specific data services granular licensing aligned to use
aligned to use cases. cases.
Commvault allows customers to
TCO
enable specific capabilities
matched to immediate needs, with
20 Licensing Veeam's similar modular
the flexibility to adopt additional
approach provides better total
services over time.
cost alignment as customers
Commvault's modular approach only pay for the capabilities
provides better total cost used.
alignment as customers only pay
for the capabilities used.
Commvault can perform warm site
recovery where it can replicates a
Veeam will need 1:1 capacity at
source VM without creating a
each replication site resulting in
21 Site Recovery destination VM on the disaster
very high TCO compared to
recovery (DR) site.
Commvault.
No usage of DR site resources and
cost until failover.
22 DD boost Integration Supported Supported
23 Client Side deduplication DD boost SDK Veeam Client side dedup

Data Domain Integration be aware that the backup copies

DD Boost APIs for optimized data will need to be reimported into
24 Secondary copies
movement Veeam before they can be used
for restore.
25 Gartner MQ Stat 12 out of 12 times in Leaders 13 out of 14 times in Leaders
 #1 in 6/7 use cases, (On-premises,
On-premises and SaaS,
scored at round #4 or 5.
Hybrid/Multicloud,
26 Gartner CC Stat Nowhere close to Commvault in
Hybrid/Multicloud and SaaS,
any of the use cases.
Disaster Recovery and
Ransomware Recovery)
Two years in a row, not in either
27 GigaOM Stat Leader or Outperformer
Leader or Outperformer

Commvault has been top ranked in

3rd Party Validations the Current Offering category,
achieving the highest scores for
Backup-and-Restore Functionality
and Automation and
Orchestration, and one of the Veeam dropped out of the
28 Forrester Wave highest scores in Business Leaders to Strong Performers
Awareness/LOB Functionality. In section.
addition, Commvault received the
highest scores possible in the
Strategy category for Product
Vision, Planned Enhancements,
and Delivery Model.