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Commvault

Complete Data Protection & Management

Founded 1996Tinton Falls, NJ2,800+ employeesCVLT

Commvault is one of the most comprehensive enterprise data protection platforms, covering backup, recovery, eDiscovery, compliance archiving, and cloud data management. Its Metallic SaaS offering brings the full Commvault feature set to a subscription model.

Analyst Findings

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Verified

Commvault is the most feature-complete enterprise backup platform available

Confirmed. No other vendor matches Commvault's breadth: mainframe, SAP HANA, Oracle, eDiscovery, compliance archiving, legal hold, cloud data management, and disaster recovery orchestration in a single platform. For large enterprises with heterogeneous environments, this breadth is a genuine differentiator. The trade-off is implementation complexity.

Marcus Williams
Reviewed 2026-01-18
Caveat

Commvault Metallic delivers the full Commvault feature set as SaaS with minimal complexity

Metallic does deliver the Commvault feature set via SaaS, but "minimal complexity" is not accurate for mid-market organi...

Caveat

Commvault ThreatWise cyber deception is production-ready for enterprise deployment

ThreatWise is generally available but is a relatively recent addition (2022-2023) to the Commvault platform. The decepti...

Feature Specifications

GAGenerally AvailableBetaPublic BetaRoadmapOn Roadmap

Recovery

Granular Recovery (any workload)
GA
Instant Recovery
GA
DR Orchestration (Command Center)
GA
Application-consistent Recovery (SAP/Oracle/SQL)
GA
Cyber Deception (decoy recovery)

Early access, limited availability

Beta

Backup

VMware / Hyper-V / Nutanix Backup
GA
Physical Server Backup
GA
Microsoft 365 Backup (Metallic)
GA
Google Workspace Backup
GA
Kubernetes Backup
GA
Mainframe Backup

One of very few vendors with mainframe support

GA
eDiscovery & Legal Hold

Integrated compliance archiving

GA

Cloud

AWS / Azure / GCP Backup
GA
SaaS Delivery (Metallic)

Full Commvault feature set as SaaS

GA
Air Gap Protect (cloud isolation)
GA

Security

Immutable Storage Support
GA
Ransomware Protection & Recovery
GA
ThreatWise (cyber deception)

Decoy data to detect ransomware early

GA
Sensitive Data Governance
GA
Role-based Access Control
GA

Analytics

Commvault Activate (data insights)
GA
SLA-based Reporting
GA
Compliance Audit Reporting
GA

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Deployment Options

On-premises (software)

Traditional deployment model

SaaS (Metallic)

Full Commvault capability delivered as SaaS

Virtual Appliance (HyperScale X)
Air-gapped

Air Gap Protect product; cloud-isolated recovery

Government / FedRAMP

FedRAMP Moderate authorized via Metallic GovCloud

Managed Service Provider

Commvault MSP program available

Compliance & Certifications

SOC 2 Type II

Covers Metallic SaaS platform

ISO 27001
HIPAA

BAA available for Metallic

GDPR
FedRAMP

FedRAMP Moderate authorized via Metallic GovCloud

PCI-DSS

Metallic is PCI-DSS compliant

Integrations

Hypervisor

VMware vSphereMicrosoft Hyper-VNutanix AHV

Cloud

AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud

SaaS

Microsoft 365Google WorkspaceSalesforce

ITSM

ServiceNow

SIEM

Splunk

Platform

IBM Mainframe