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Commvault Backup & Recovery
The every-workload flagship of the 15x Gartner MQ Leader — VMs to SAP HANA to Kubernetes, protected with policy-driven SLAs and recovery engineered for attacks.
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Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery is the every-workload flagship of the 15x Gartner MQ Leader: VMs (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix), 100+ database types, files and objects, endpoints, Kubernetes and DevOps repos (GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps) protected across on-prem, edge and cloud from one console — with policy-driven SLAs (Plans), anomaly detection watching for encryption spikes, immutable copy options and recovery from granular file to full data centre. Delivered SaaS or software, scaling from mid-market to the multi-petabyte estates the on-prem Flex/Grid lines serve.
The Commvault platform family
This page covers Backup & Recovery — the flagship. The rest of the eight-product portfolio:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Backup & Recovery — the flagship of Commvault Cloud
- Vendor
- Commvault (est. 1996 · NASDAQ: CVLT · 15x Gartner MQ Leader)
- Category
- Enterprise backup & recovery — every workload, every venue
- Workloads
- VMs · 100+ DB types · files/objects · endpoints · K8s · DevOps
- Venues
- On-prem, edge, Azure, AWS, GCP — one console across all
- SLA model
- Plans — policy-driven RPO/RTO applied per workload tier
- Cyber hooks
- Anomaly detection, immutable copies, Threat Scan attach
- Delivery
- SaaS (Commvault Cloud) or software; Flex/Grid/Edge on-prem
- Licensing
- Per workload / front-end TB — Operational/Autonomous/Cyber packages
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand backup before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is enterprise backup & recovery?
The discipline of keeping restorable copies of everything the business runs — and proving you can restore them within promised times (RTO) with bounded loss (RPO).
The modern standard is 3-2-1-1-0: three copies, two media, one off-site, one immutable, zero restore errors. Commvault’s flagship is that standard as configuration across every workload the enterprise owns.
Tool-per-workload sprawl vs one platform — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Backup-tool zoo + scripts | One platform (Commvault) |
|---|---|---|
| Tooling | A backup tool per workload era — 5-11 products | One platform, every workload and venue |
| Operations | Hundreds of hand-tuned jobs | Plans — policy-driven SLAs, inherited |
| The weird workload | 'Unsupported' — a script and a prayer | 100+ DB types, K8s, DevOps repos, covered |
| Ransomware | Backups encrypted with production | Immutable copies + anomaly tripwires |
| Recovery scope | Restore the whole VM to fetch one file | Granular-to-total, from the same copy |
| RTO | Hours of restore before anything answers | Live Mount — minutes to first service |
| Audit | A quarter of screenshots | SLA dashboards and evidence exports |
| Growth | New venue = new tool | SaaS to petabyte appliances, one platform |
Migration is incremental — workloads move by tier, and the tool zoo retires venue by venue at each renewal.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Control Plane
Every workload, venue and SLA administered from one console — SaaS-delivered, with Arlie's AI assistance folded in.
Plans Engine
RPO, retention, copies and destinations defined once as Plans, applied per workload tier — protection by policy, not per-job craft.
Data Movers
Deduplicated, encrypted movement at enterprise scale — the engine three decades of the hardest estates have tuned.
Storage Fabric
Disk, cloud, tape and Air Gap Protect immutable copies — 3-2-1-1-0 as configuration, not aspiration.
Watchers
Encryption-spike anomaly detection and Threat Scan integration — the backup stream doubles as an attack sensor.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Protect, recover, defend.
Commvault replaces the tool-per-workload zoo — and the audit anxiety it breeds — with one platform and policy-driven SLAs.
Virtual & Hyper-Converged
VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix and friends — agentless protection with instant-mount recovery for the estate's biggest surface.
Database Coverage
Oracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and the long tail — application-consistent, log-aware, DBA-respected.
Unstructured Data
NAS shares, object stores and file servers at scale — with archive tiering that moves cold data to cheap storage by policy.
Kubernetes & Repos
Cluster workloads plus GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps — the source code and manifests your rebuild depends on, versioned and protected.
Endpoint Backup
Laptops protected with silent, bandwidth-aware backup and self-service restore — the workforce's data without the workforce's help.
Policy-Driven SLAs
Define RPO/retention/copies once as a Plan; every workload in the tier inherits it — the estate managed by rules, not by 400 jobs.
Granular-to-Total Recovery
One mailbox item, one table, one VM or the whole data centre — recovery scoped to the incident, not the backup format.
Live Mount & Rapid Restore
VMs boot from backup storage while restore completes in the background — RTO measured in minutes for the workloads that matter.
Replication & DR Orchestration
Periodic and continuous replication with orchestrated failover runbooks — the DR plan as executable automation, not a binder.
Anomaly Detection
Backup-stream analytics flag the encryption spike and mass-change patterns that betray ransomware — often before the SOC knows.
Immutable Copy Options
Air Gap Protect and object-lock targets make the last line of defence unalterable — the 1 in 3-2-1-1-0.
Cyber Layer Attach
Threat Scan, Cleanroom Recovery and Threatwise extend the same platform — backup grows into cyber resilience without a second vendor.
Watch Commvault in action
Official demos — the platform, the VM estate and massive-scale recovery.
Unified Cloud-Native Data Protection with Commvault Cloud
The flagship demoed end to end — workloads, console, recovery.
Protect Virtual Environments with Commvault
The VM estate — the biggest surface — protected step by step.
Cloud Burst Recovery: Massive-Scale Recovery
Parallelised cloud recovery at scale — RTO engineering in action.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough on your own fleet?
Book a guided demo →Every backup tool backs up. Recovery under attack is the product.
Here’s what genuinely sets the 30-year platform apart from the field.
The broadest workload net, period
VMs to SAP HANA to Kubernetes to GitHub repos — when the estate is genuinely heterogeneous, the shortlist shrinks fast, and Commvault is usually what's left standing.
Three decades of restore scar tissue
Since 1996 this engine has seen every corrupt catalogue, every exotic array and every 3 a.m. restore — maturity you only notice when the weird thing happens, which is exactly when it matters.
SLAs by policy, not by craft
Plans turn 400 hand-tuned jobs into a handful of policies workloads inherit — the operational model that survives staff turnover and audit season alike.
The cyber layer is native, not bolted
Anomaly detection, immutable copies, Threat Scan and Cleanroom attach to the same platform — the ransomware answer without a second vendor and a second integration project.
The analysts keep agreeing
15 consecutive Gartner MQ Leader placements isn't a hot streak, it's a habit — and in a category bought for decade-long horizons, vendor durability is a feature.
Scales from SaaS to petabyte iron
Start SaaS-delivered with zero infrastructure; grow into Flex/Grid appliances when the estate demands it — one platform across the whole growth curve.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Commvault journey looks like
Workload & threat census
TechBag advisors inventory TBs by workload, RPO/RTO tiers and ransomware exposure — and map it all to a package (Operational/Autonomous/Cyber).
PoC with timed restores
Crown-jewel workloads protected in the PoC — and the success criteria are restore times, not backup completion: full VM, granular file, database point-in-time.
Estate migration in waves
Plans defined, workloads inherit by tier, legacy tools retire venue by venue; anomaly detection and immutable copies switch on early.
Resilience steady state
The cyber layer (Air Gap, Cleanroom, Threat Scan) attaches where mandated; audits export instead of consuming quarters. TechBag manages renewals and true-ups.
Trusted across regulated industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Eleven backup tools became one platform. The consolidation paid for itself in licence spend before we counted the labour.”
“SAP HANA, Oracle RAC, a 2PB NAS and three clouds — nothing else we evaluated covered the whole estate without asterisks.”
“The anomaly alert fired at 2 a.m. on a Saturday — encryption spike on a file server. We isolated it before the ransom note rendered. That alert paid for the platform.”
“Plans changed our operations: three policies replaced three hundred jobs, and audit prep became an export.”
“Depth has a price: this is an enterprise platform and it expects enterprise admins. Budget the training seriously.”
“Live Mount got our billing VMs answering while the full restore ran behind. The outage post-mortem was pleasantly boring.”
“Kubernetes and the GitHub org in the same policy engine as the VMs — our platform team stopped running their own shadow backup.”
“Licensing has real flexibility but real complexity — map workloads to packages with someone who's done it before you sign.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the backup market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Backup & Recovery Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
The breadth-and-depth benchmark carrying enterprise weight — this page's subject.
Coverage & Cyber Depth × Operational Lightness
The grid nobody publishes — how much the platform covers vs what it takes to run it.
Maximum coverage and cyber depth; the admin curve is the honest price. SaaS delivery and Arlie are flattening it.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Commvault vs the backup heavyweights
All five majors get TechBag intel hubs this wave — here’s the honest map of who wins which estate, Commvault’s weight included.
| Dimension | Commvault | Veeam | Rubrik | Cohesity-Veritas | Druva |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & focus | The 30-year platform (1996) | The market-share king | Zero-trust challenger | The merged giant | SaaS-native simplicity |
| Workload breadth | The benchmark | Broad, VM-deepest | Broad and growing | Very broad | Cloud-first scope |
| Cyber-recovery layer | The deepest stack | Strong pieces | The positioning leader | Assembling | Solid essentials |
| Operational lightness | Enterprise-weight | The usability king | Modern and clean | Two heritages | The lightest |
| Cloud-native depth | Clumio inside | Good | Good | Good | Born there |
| Scale ceiling | Petabyte-proven | Very high | High | Petabyte-proven | Cloud-elastic |
| Licensing economics | Flexible, complex | Per-workload VUL | Premium | Varies by stack | Simple SaaS |
| Best fit | Complex regulated estates | VM-centric estates | Security-led buyers | NetBackup incumbents | Lean cloud-first teams |
Which backup platform is right for you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Commvault if…
- ✓Your estate is genuinely heterogeneous — the weird workloads included
- ✓Cyber recovery (immutable + cleanroom + scanning) must be native
- ✓Regulated-industry audit evidence is a standing obligation
- ✓You're consolidating a zoo of backup tools onto one platform
Choose Veeam if…
- ✓VM-centric estate, usability-first culture
- ✓Hub coming this wave — compare then
Choose Rubrik if…
- ✓Security-first framing wins your board
- ✓Hub coming this wave
Choose Cohesity-Veritas if…
- ✓NetBackup incumbency and merged-stack roadmap suit you
Choose Druva if…
- ✓Cloud-first estate, zero appetite for infrastructure
- ✓Hub coming this wave
What does fragile recovery cost you?
Drag the sliders (count protected workloads — VMs, DBs, shares; use IT-hour cost as loaded ops rate). Estimates assume ~5 hours per workload per year across job-babysitting, failed-restore fire drills, audit evidence and tool sprawl, with ~65% removed by policy-driven SLAs, one console and evidence exports — the avoided-downtime value is far larger. Illustrative and conservative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Commvault prices per workload/TB in three packages. TechBag maps needs to package and turns any mix into a GST-compliant quote.
Operational Recovery
Best for core backup at lowest TCO
- Per workload / front-end TB
- Every-workload backup & recovery
- Anomaly detection included
Autonomous Recovery
Best for DR-mandated estates
- Adds replication & DR orchestration
- Ransomware protection deepens
- Failover runbooks as automation
Cyber Recovery
Best for attack-readiness programmes
- Adds Threat Scan, deception, Cleanroom
- Air Gap Protect immutable copies
- TechBag negotiates the bundle
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your device counts and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every backup vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
PoC success = a stopwatch on full-VM, granular-file and DB point-in-time restores. Backup completion proves nothing.
Bring YOUR exotic systems to the PoC — the HANA instance, the old Informix box, the K8s cluster. The long tail decides.
Operational vs Autonomous vs Cyber Recovery: map needs to package BEFORE comparing any prices.
Configure an immutable copy, then try to delete it as admin. Verify the 'no' is real.
Simulate mass encryption on a test share and time the alert.
Who runs this? Scope training (or the SaaS edition) against your team's real capacity.
Model recovery egress costs for cloud copies — the invisible line item in every cloud DR plan.
Export the SLA/compliance report your actual auditor would receive. Is it accepted as-is?
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Commvault?
Get a quote, scope a PoC with timed-restore criteria, or bring your backup-tool bills and let a TechBag advisor model the consolidation.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.