Only Commvault covers all 7 workloads; 18 backup products use 7 price units

01Breadth: one product covers all seven workload types

The guide records, for each product, which of seven workload types its documentation says it protects: physical servers, virtual machines, public-cloud workloads, Kubernetes, databases, NAS and file shares, and endpoints.¹ Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery is the only product with all seven. Cohesity DataProtect, NetBackup (now Cohesity’s) and Rubrik’s Enterprise Edition cover six; none of the three documents laptop backup. Eight of the 18 cover one or two types, by design: Kasten does Kubernetes, Druva’s inSync does laptops.

“Multi-cloud” at Commvault is three products, not one. The core product protects cloud workloads in the same catalogue as the data centre. Clumio, acquired in October 2024, protects AWS only, outside your own account, on a published meter of US$0.012 per GiB-month, with restores at US$0.08 per GiB plus AWS transfer.³ Cloud Rewind, from the 2024 Appranix acquisition, rebuilds whole applications, infrastructure, networking and configuration included, in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.⁴

02Hypervisors: three products follow you off VMware

“Multi-cloud” in most Indian estates starts on premises, and for many of them the platform under the virtual machines is moving; leaving VMware is one of the eight buying scenarios the guide is organised around. Data spread across VMware today may be spread across VMware, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox next year, mid-migration, with the backup product the one thing that should not change at the same time. The guide records which of four hypervisors each product documents protecting.¹

The drop-off is the point. Cohesity DataProtect, NetBackup and Rubrik, three of the four broadest products in section 01, document AHV but not Proxmox; so does Druva Hybrid Workloads. Commvault is one of only three products that covers all four, alongside Veeam Data Platform and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.¹ The guide’s own caution applies to all of them: Proxmox support is newer everywhere, so test a restore onto the new hypervisor, not just a backup from the old one, before the cut-over.

Where the copies sit is the other filter, and it splits Commvault in two: its core SaaS documents an India region, Clumio does not.^{2 3} Our note on DPDP Rule 6 counts that column across all 18 products.

03Price: seven units for eighteen products

Commvault’s SaaS list is US$58.50 to US$90 per TB a month, from virtual machines and Kubernetes at the low end to databases at the high end; the on-premises software is priced per front-end TB on quote.¹ That is one of seven licensing units in the guide, and the units do not convert into one another.

Even inside the per-TB group the meters differ: Commvault’s SaaS list is per TB a month, Rubrik’s reported figure of about US$130 is per back-end TB a month on three-year terms, and NetBackup’s reported US$400 to US$900 is per front-end TB a year. The guide’s note is blunt: the same estate can cost three times more or less depending only on which unit the vendor chose, and every line excludes the storage the backups sit on, which is often larger than the licence.¹

04What to settle before the contract

The 2024 post praised Commvault’s compliance reports and called its interface intuitive. Neither is measurable from documentation, and the guide’s own limitation line, that breadth is also the learning curve, cuts against the second. What can be measured is restore speed, and no datasheet in the category prints it. Nine of the 18 products document instant recovery, booting or mounting a machine straight from the backup, Commvault’s core product among them.¹ The guide’s point is that the number that matters, how many virtual machines per hour come back over your network from your repository, is a proof-of-concept figure, not a brochure one.

Immutability is the other question to settle on paper. The guide sorts the 18 products into three patterns: enforced on a target you configure, enforced on the vendor’s storage, or enforced by the platform’s own software. Commvault’s core product is in the first group, so its copies are as tamper-proof as the object lock or hardened repository you point it at. That is a design task for your team or your partner, and it belongs in the statement of work, not in a later change request.¹