The Eon Alternative with Proven Enterprise Resilience
Commvault helps safeguard your livelihood – delivering proven, reliable protection across hybrid, multi-cloud, edge, and SaaS environments while Eon protects only a fraction of your estate.
15X
Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms and ranked #1 in 5 of 6 Use Cases in the Critical Capabilities.
4.6 ★
Average product capability score from Gartner Peer Insights
Challenges Enterprise Teams Face with Eon
Are these pain points holding your team back?
Critical Unprotected Systems
Struggling to protect non-cloud native workloads? Commvault’s platform delivers unified, industry-proven resilience across your entire hybrid environment, for your critical workloads.
Unpredictable Storage Costs
Burning cash on cloud storage? Commvault features global deduplication and cloud tiering to help reduce costs, compared with Eon’s reliance on expensive native cloud snapshots.
Unproven Growing Pains
Can you afford to risk your enterprise data on a startup? Commvault brings decades of proven, industry-leading cyber resilience that outpaces cloud-native point tools.
How Commvault Solves Your Data Protection Challenges
Complete, unified cyber resilience designed for your entire environment.
Protection for What Matters Most
Commvault enables unified, simple protection across critical workloads no matter their location. Including hybrid cloud and legacy systems that cloud-only tools ignore.
Advanced Cyber Recovery and Cleanrooms
Commvault enables rapid ransomware recovery using AI-enabled threat detection and secure, cloud-based cleanrooms for enterprise resilience.
Comprehensive SaaS and Endpoint Resilience
Safeguard critical productivity solutions such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and distributed endpoint data alongside your cloud infrastructure in a single, SaaS-delivered platform.
SEE HOW WE COMPARE
Comparison overview
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Hybrid & On-Premises Workload Protection | Commvault delivers unified, proven protection across VMs, servers, public cloud, and even mainframes from a single pane of glass. Don’t leave a workload behind or deal with multiple point products. | Eon is built for a few public cloud workloads, leaving your on-prem environments completely exposed. Juggling several other solutions to protect your entire infrastructure can increase costs and management burden. |
Orchestrated Cyber Recovery | Commvault goes far beyond simple cloud backup and recovery. We provide AI-enabled threat detection, orchestrated hybrid failover, and cleanrooms to enable rapid, validated business continuity for your critical workloads. | Eon relies on cloud-native snapshot capabilities, without the deep orchestration and cleanroom forensics required to quickly recover a complex, deeply infected enterprise environment. Immutability and anomaly detection are no longer enough for modern threats. |
Distributed Endpoint Protection | Commvault extends enterprise-grade deduplication and backup to edge devices, laptops, and desktops, helping keep remote worker recoverable. | Eon provides no coverage for end-user devices. It secures centralized cloud infrastructure but does not cover the distributed endpoints. |
Strategic Data Agility | Commvault gives you the freedom to move, manage, and recover data across cloud, hypervisor, or physical data center, so you don’t become hostage to a single vendor. | Eon embeds your data protection strategy within specific public cloud architectures, limiting your future responsiveness, and hybrid migration options. |
Proven Enterprise Support & Maturity | Commvault brings decades of demonstrated experience, a globally distributed 24/7 support infrastructure, and an industry-proven track record of recovering from attacks. | Eon is a newly funded startup founded in 2024. They haven’t had the time to build the maturity or global support footprint required for complex environments. |
Commvault
Hybrid & On-Premises Workload Protection
Commvault delivers unified, proven protection across VMs, servers, public cloud, and even mainframes from a single pane of glass. Don’t leave a workload behind or deal with multiple point products.Orchestrated Cyber Recovery
Commvault goes far beyond simple cloud backup and recovery. We provide AI-enabled threat detection, orchestrated hybrid failover, and cleanrooms to enable rapid, validated business continuity for your critical workloads.Distributed Endpoint Protection
Commvault extends enterprise-grade deduplication and backup to edge devices, laptops, and desktops, helping keep remote worker recoverable.Strategic Data Agility
Commvault gives you the freedom to move, manage, and recover data across cloud, hypervisor, or physical data center, so you don’t become hostage to a single vendor.Proven Enterprise Support & Maturity
Commvault brings decades of demonstrated experience, a globally distributed 24/7 support infrastructure, and an industry-proven track record of recovering from attacks.
Eon
Hybrid & On-Premises Workload Protection
Eon is built for a few public cloud workloads, leaving your on-prem environments completely exposed. Juggling several other solutions to protect your entire infrastructure can increase costs and management burden.Orchestrated Cyber Recovery
Eon relies on cloud-native snapshot capabilities, without the deep orchestration and cleanroom forensics required to quickly recover a complex, deeply infected enterprise environment. Immutability and anomaly detection are no longer enough for modern threats.Distributed Endpoint Protection
Eon provides no coverage for end-user devices. It secures centralized cloud infrastructure but does not cover the distributed endpoints.Strategic Data Agility
Eon embeds your data protection strategy within specific public cloud architectures, limiting your future responsiveness, and hybrid migration options.Proven Enterprise Support & Maturity
Eon is a newly funded startup founded in 2024. They haven’t had the time to build the maturity or global support footprint required for complex environments.
Why teams switch from Eon to Commvault
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Hybrid Data Requires Protection
Teams quickly realize Eon’s cloud-only approach leaves hybrid systems and SaaS vulnerable, driving a switch to Commvault for unified, hybrid coverage. -
Spiraling Cloud Storage Costs
Eon’s reliance on native cloud snapshots switch to Commvault to help reduce storage bills through friendlier licensing, global deduplication and automated cloud tiering. -
Ransomware Demands Advanced Cleanroom Recovery
Faced with complex and evolving cyber threats, data security teams switch out Eon for Commvault’s advanced AI-enabled threat detection and help secure cleanrooms to provide validated, restores.
Switch from Eon in Weeks, not Months
Most customers switching from Eon won’t need professional services. But for complex environments or teams that want expert guidance, Commvault’s migration services helps make the transition smooth.
Discover
Gather data about your environment to scope and recommend migration strategies.
Options
Identify the most appropriate, efficient, and cost-effective strategy through a collaborative workshop session that explores migration options, grouped by business value.
Define
Design the Commvault Cloud platform for your environment
Plan
Develop project plans for server-by-server migration and map the old configuration to the new Commvault configuration for automated deployment.
Migrate
Execute migration services to move from Eon to the Commvault Cloud platform
Success Stories
Real results from companies that chose Commvault over the competition.
The Challenge
Struggled with a 55% backup success rate across three legacy solutions, requiring hours of daily troubleshooting and leaving the team with a 24-hour recovery time objective.
The Solution
Consolidated its backup environment onto Commvault Cloud, boosting backup success to 97%, reducing management time to an hour or less per day, and cutting disk recovery time to just one hour.
SQL deduplication rate achieved
number of backup jobs daily
The Challenge
Sony sought a unified platform for cyber resilience across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS workloads and most data protection solutions fail to meet the company’s requirements.
The Solution
Commvault Cloud delivers a layered defense against ransomware including automated data security and management functionalities that help Sony comply with their SOC and GDPR requirements.
Reduction in storage and backup costs
Endpoints across multiple data centers, regions, locations, and cloud providers
Certification & Compliances
Enterprise-Grade Data Security & Compliance
GovRAMP Authorized
The most stringent confidentiality, accessibility, and availability standards set forth for U.S. government contractors and agencies.
FedRAMP® Class D (High) Certification
The most stringent confidentiality, accessibility, and availability standards set forth for US government contractors and agencies. See Government Cloud for more information.
Applicable for Commvault Cloud SaaS customers.
ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 Certified
Establishes international standards for managing risks to the security of information.
Applicable for Commvault Cloud SaaS customers and Remote Managed Services (RMS) Platform.
NIST 800-53 CP9 & CP10 Compliant
Establishes standards for contingency planning and configuration management to maintain the security of information systems and protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or modification.
VPAT 2.5 — WCAG and 508 Compliant
Describes the accessibility of Commvault Solutions in conformance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
SOC 2 Type II Certified
Provides security standards and criteria for the acceptance, processing, storage, and transmission of credit card information.
Applicable for Commvault Cloud SaaS customers.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Commvault compare to Eon?
Commvault delivers comprehensive, industry-proven and analyst-backed cyber resilience for your hybrid estate – including on-prem, SaaS, and multi-cloud. Eon is a recently founded startup focused on protecting a limited set of public cloud infrastructure workloads.
What are the main differences between Commvault and Eon?
The main differences are architectural, workload scope, and maturity. Commvault unifies data protection across physical, virtual, and cloud environments with proven enterprise-grade support. Eon is limited to cloud-native workloads.
Is Eon limited to cloud workloads?
Yes. Eon is explicitly designed for public cloud infrastructure and is limited to AWS, Azure, and GCP. If your teams manage physical servers, critical mainframes, edge devices, or SaaS applications like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and more, Eon cannot safeguard them.
Can I migrate from Eon to Commvault?
Absolutely! Our onboarding teams help you transition cloud workloads while extending enterprise-grade protection to on-premises and SaaS environments.
Why should I choose Commvault over Eon?
Choose Commvault to eliminate startup risk and safeugard your universe of data. Eon limits you to a few public cloud resources. Commvault gives teams unified hybrid coverage, and proven cyber resilience.
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