The Veeam Alternative Built for Modern Hybrid Resiliency
Commvault replaces Veeam's fragmented toolset with a unified platform that uses automation, reconstructs full cloud infrastructure on recovery, and scales across hybrid environments.
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90%
Of estimated attacks involve AD
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Cloud regions supported by Commvault
98%
Customer support satisfaction rating
Challenges enterprise teams face with Veeam
Are these pain points holding your team back?
Fragmented management
Dealing with too many moving parts? A Veeam solution often means stitching together multiple products with multiple control planes, turning their “platform” into a disjointed stack of disparate products.
Incomplete cloud recovery
Struggling with cloud rebuild? Veeam can restore cloud data, but you will be manually reassembling the full application, configs, metadata, and dependencies – increasing downtime and increasing recovery complexity.
Inflexible deployment options
Lacking deployment flexibility? Without an integrated appliance or robust SaaS offering, Veeam scales by adding more infrastructure. As Veeam Data Cloud only protects cloud workloads, on-prem buildout will remain part of the equation.
How Commvault solves your data protection challenges
Modern data protection and recovery designed for hybrid cloud.
Modern unified platform
Streamline operations via a single, intuitive control plane that manages every workload across your environment, replacing the complexity of multiple disparate point products and disconnected UIs.
Built-in proactive cyber resilience
Experience an enhanced security posture that leverages AI to detect threats in real time and automate cleanroom recoveries, enabling you to restore verified data to an isolated, cloud-enabled environment without manual scripting or 3rd party tools.
Enterprise scalability
Lower TCO with a high-efficiency global deduplication engine and policy-driven automation that scales to safeguard petabytes of data across any number of sites and environments.
SEE HOW WE COMPARE
Comparison overview
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Enterprise SaaS Maturity | Commvault offers deep, native protection for a wider range of SaaS apps and databases than Veeam, including platforms such Google Workspace, GitHub, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 and enterprise databases such as CockroachDB and Cassandra. In addition to protecting more SaaS apps than Veeam, Commvault makes more services available as-a-Service. | When it comes to SaaS, Veeam only offers protection of Microsoft Cloud resources (Azure, Entra ID, M365) and Salesforce. Beyond SaaS workloads, Veeam’s SaaS delivery model doesn’t extend to on-premises or hybrid infrastructure. Protecting VMware, physical servers, or databases still requires deploying and managing VBR on-premises. |
Global Deduplication | Commvault deduplicates data across the entire environment (SaaS, On-prem, and Cloud) before it is ever written to storage. | Veeam deduplicates data at the job level resulting in “dedupe islands,” where redundant data is stored multiple times across different cloud buckets or storage, leading to higher bloat in cloud storage costs and less efficient on-prem storage usage. |
Identity Resilience | Commvault offers automated, forest-level recovery for Active Directory and can recover any Active Directory object in minutes. Additionally, Commvault Cloud simplifies finding and reversing unauthorized identity changes to help address active identity-based attacks in their tracks. | Veeam can restore users and attributes, but broader recovery capabilities require 3rd party tools. |
DevOps Data Protection | Commvault offers full support for safeguarding GitHub repositories and GitLab data with policy-driven backups if source code and pipeline protection are critical to your business. | Veeam lacks any support for GitHub and GitLab SaaS repositories. Users often end up relying on exports, scripts, and manual workarounds to protect their critical data. |
Automated, Turn-Key Cloud-based Cleanroom | Commvault provides a fully orchestrated, on-demand Cleanroom in the cloud, enabling you to automatically spin up a clean, isolated version of your environment for forensic analysis or safe recovery. | Veeam’s SureBackup and Virtual Labs remain anchored to complex, manually configured “sandboxes” that rely on your potentially compromised local hardware. Recovering to the cloud requires architecting an isolated network, integrating with VBR, and leveraging plan steps with service principals for automation. It’s an engineered workaround, not a cleanroom. |
Commvault
Enterprise SaaS Maturity
Commvault offers deep, native protection for a wider range of SaaS apps and databases than Veeam, including platforms such Google Workspace, GitHub, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 and enterprise databases such as CockroachDB and Cassandra. In addition to protecting more SaaS apps than Veeam, Commvault makes more services available as-a-Service.Global Deduplication
Commvault deduplicates data across the entire environment (SaaS, On-prem, and Cloud) before it is ever written to storage.Identity Resilience
Commvault offers automated, forest-level recovery for Active Directory and can recover any Active Directory object in minutes. Additionally, Commvault Cloud simplifies finding and reversing unauthorized identity changes to help address active identity-based attacks in their tracks.DevOps Data Protection
Commvault offers full support for safeguarding GitHub repositories and GitLab data with policy-driven backups if source code and pipeline protection are critical to your business.Automated, Turn-Key Cloud-based Cleanroom
Commvault provides a fully orchestrated, on-demand Cleanroom in the cloud, enabling you to automatically spin up a clean, isolated version of your environment for forensic analysis or safe recovery.
Veeam
Enterprise SaaS Maturity
When it comes to SaaS, Veeam only offers protection of Microsoft Cloud resources (Azure, Entra ID, M365) and Salesforce. Beyond SaaS workloads, Veeam’s SaaS delivery model doesn’t extend to on-premises or hybrid infrastructure. Protecting VMware, physical servers, or databases still requires deploying and managing VBR on-premises.Global Deduplication
Veeam deduplicates data at the job level resulting in “dedupe islands,” where redundant data is stored multiple times across different cloud buckets or storage, leading to higher bloat in cloud storage costs and less efficient on-prem storage usage.Identity Resilience
Veeam can restore users and attributes, but broader recovery capabilities require 3rd party tools.DevOps Data Protection
Veeam lacks any support for GitHub and GitLab SaaS repositories. Users often end up relying on exports, scripts, and manual workarounds to protect their critical data.Automated, Turn-Key Cloud-based Cleanroom
Veeam’s SureBackup and Virtual Labs remain anchored to complex, manually configured “sandboxes” that rely on your potentially compromised local hardware. Recovering to the cloud requires architecting an isolated network, integrating with VBR, and leveraging plan steps with service principals for automation. It’s an engineered workaround, not a cleanroom.
Why teams switch from Veeam to Commvault
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Realize significant storage savings
Teams recognize that Commvault’s global deduplication reduces storage costs compared to Veeam’s per-job approach, lowering total cost of ownership across petabytes of data. -
Eliminate point products
Commvault natively protects modern workforce solutions like Google Workspace, cloud data warehouses & data lakes and more without the 3rd party point products Veeam requires. -
Break free from disconnected tools
Commvault unifies backup, disaster recovery orchestration, and cloud resilience in a single SaaS-based unified interface – unlike Veeam’s 10+ separate, siloed offerings.
Switch from Veeam in weeks, not months
Most customers switching from Veeam won’t need professional services. But for complex environments or teams that want expert guidance, Commvault’s migration services 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.
Success stories
Real results from companies that chose Commvault over the competition.
The Challenge
Atresmedia was using a vendor with an inflexible licensing model and lack of capability to protect data in the cloud with a legacy product and a solution to meet compliance requirements and protect brand reputation.
The Solution
Adopted Commvault Cloud Autonomous Recovery to protect data for the entire on-premises environments and part of the Office 365 mailboxes.
Reduction in RTO and RPO
SLA for compliance and availability met
The Challenge
Jama Al Majid had difficulties for the IT team monitoring backups and recovery status for on-premises and cloud environments while delivering services.
The Solution
Deployed Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 to automate daily backups and recovery while using HyperScale HS1300 Appliance to protect a wide range of on-premises workloads.
Mailboxes protected and stored
Managed and stored data backups in the entire on-premises environment
The Challenge
BGC faced unreliable and time-consuming data backup and recovery with legacy solutions and lacked a disaster recovery solution to support different platforms and environments for on-premises and SaaS.
The Solution
Deployed Commvault Cloud Autonomous Recovery with Microsoft Azure to protect data across on-premises and cloud environments.
Saved in TCO by consolidating 3 legacy solutions into a single Commvault platform
Reduction in time spent on data management
Certification & compliances
Enterprise-grade security & compliance
GovRAMP Authorized
The most stringent confidentiality, accessibility, and availability standards set forth for U.S. government contractors and agencies.
FIPS 140-3 Compliant
Validates cryptographic modules for encryption and document processing for handling sensitive data.
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 Veeam?
While Veeam is a popular tool for on-prem VM backup, Commvault is a comprehensive cyber resilience platform. It is a better choice for large, hybrid environments and protects a wider range of workloads (including legacy systems and modern SaaS) with more mature, AI-enabled security and automated recovery capabilities.
What’s the main difference between Commvault and Veeam?
Veeam often requires “assembly” via multiple point products to cover common workloads in a modern enterprise. Commvault offers a SaaS-delivered, unified platform that automates protection & data recovery and can reconstruct an entire cloud infrastructure for faster recovery and greater resilience during a crisis.
Can I migrate from Veeam to Commvault?
Absolutely! Customers typically start by mapping their Veeam backup jobs, retention needs, and compliance requirements, then migrating in phases to keep risk low and operations stable. Many customers run both in parallel during transition and retire Veeam as coverage is validated. If the goal is standardization beyond basic VM backup, upgrading from Veeam to a more robust platform is common.
Why should I choose Commvault over Veeam?
Choose Commvault if you want a unified platform that scales with your environment and reduces point product management. You get broad workload coverage, flexible storage targets & deployment options, and cyber recovery capabilities that help you find clean restore points and recover confidently. If your environment spans multiple clouds, SaaS, and legacy systems, Veeam can become harder to standardize without extra products and processes.
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