7 Top Commvault Alternatives to Explore

Built by cybersecurity professionals with compliance and eDiscovery in mind, Proofpoint’s Enterprise Archive is a cloud-based archiving solution that, in the company’s own words, “provides you with a secure and searchable central repository [for] a wide range of content types without the [headache] of managing an email archive in-house.” Enterprise Archive’s basic package offers SEC 17a-4-compliant capture and storage, unlimited self-service control for legal teams and more, and supports multiple file formats. For an additional cost, users can also access Intelligent Supervision, which provides total visibility across all forms of electronically stored information.

Pros

• Great for compliance
• Features DoubleBlind Key Architecture encryption

Cons

• Immature eDiscovery toolset
• Missing some basic functionalities
• Monitoring and threat detection services need work

TitanHQ’s cloud-based email archiving solution, ArcTitan, offers an expansive list of features, including enhanced Office 365 search and storage functionality, remote access to archived emails, email encryption and more. The company boasts 100% protection against data loss and savings of up to 75% on storage, making it a compelling Commvault alternative. ArcTitan earns high marks for its customer service and perpetual cloud storage though, based on customer reviews, small businesses might find the bar for entry high from a cost perspective.

Pros

• Superb customer support
• Perpetual cloud storage
• Easy to implement

Cons

• High price tag for small businesses
• Dated UI
• Overly simplistic search

Designed with innovation in mind, Intradyn’s all-in-one archiving solution captures and stores email, text and SMS messages and social media communications all in real- or near-real-time. With an extensive feature set, including custom retention policies, advanced reporting and analytics and robust search functionality, and three deployment models, Intradyn is ideal for organizations of any size in any industry. Best of all, Intradyn is constantly updating its products and services based on customer feedback and changes in the regulatory landscape, so customers can always be sure that they’re using the most advanced solution possible.

Pros

• Top-notch customer support
• Robust, intuitive search
• All-in-one solution
• IMAP/POP3 support

Cons

• On the expensive side
• Lacks built-in threat protection
• Can take significant computing resources

According to its website, Jatheon’s “passion for data security, compliance and information governance drives us to create robust and flexible archiving solutions” — two, to be exact. Jatheon Archiving Suite, the company’s on-premises archiving solution, offers Exchange and Office 365 email archiving, 24/7 remote monitoring, custom policy rules and more. It’s also backed by Jatheon cCore and Jatheon Care — the company’s archiving appliance and customer service/maintenance plan, respectively. Jatheon Cloud, the company’s cloud-based solution, includes an even broader array of features, including enhanced search capabilities, PST and EML ingestion, advanced user management, free tech support and more.

Pros

• Set it and forget it
• Great customer support
• Proactive monitoring

Cons

• Confusing search logic
• Dated UI
• Slow search functionality

Arcserve UDP Archiving promises to help users “wave goodbye to the complexity of email archiving solutions.” Designed for single and multi-tenant architectures, Arcserve UDP Archiving aims to help organizations remain compliant with regulatory and legal requirements with its automated email retention and encryption, granular search functionality, easy-to-implement legal holds and more. With multiple deployment options and Single Instant Storage, Arcserve UDP Archiving provides flexibility and reduces archive storage, making it an exciting Commvault alternative.

Pros

• Robust search
• Integrates easily with Office 365
• Single Instance Storage

Cons

• Difficult to implement
• Limited customer support
• Does not offer stubbing

Best known for its email security solutions, Mimecast also offers email archiving in the form of its Enterprise Information Archiving solution. Mimecast Enterprise Information Archiving boasts an “industry-leading 7-second search,” remote archiving access, encrypted, cloud-based storage, and more. Mimecast has earned praise for its single, unified administrative console, its policy of creating triplicate copies of all incoming and outgoing emails for added disaster recovery and its robust spam filtering. That said, some users have reported that its spam filtering is so robust that it even blocks emails from known senders — an important detail to keep in mind when comparing Commvault competitors.

Pros

• Robust spam filtering
• Targeted Threat Protection
• AES encryption

Cons

• Poor customer support
• Difficult to implement
• Hidden costs

SolarWinds Mail Assure, SolarWinds MSP’s email archiving solution, combines archiving and cybersecurity in the interest of “[making] business email safe, available and resilient — even during an outage.” With off-site storage, automated email compression and geographic clustering, and inbound and outbound protection, Mail Assure is designed with 24/7 continuity and network protection in mind. In addition to security, Mail Assure offers long-term email storage with unlimited retention periods, compressed storage to reduce data usage and an advanced content and attachment-based search functionality, making it easy to quickly retrieve emails.

Pros

• Excellent customer support
• Robust spam filtering
• Customizable dashboard

Cons

• Slow to use
• Cannot be accessed by multiple admins
• Dashboard is difficult to navigate

Whether you’re looking to make a switch or are shopping for an archiving solution for the very first time, it’s important that you weigh all of your options carefully — after all, the solution you choose will play a vital role in ensuring your organization’s regulatory compliance, in helping you to respond to eDiscovery requests and in handling litigation. Before making your final solution, be sure to take the time to thoroughly research and evaluate Commvault competitors.

If you’d like to learn more about Intradyn, in particular, you’ve come to the right place. We offer a free, on-demand demo, so you can see Intradyn in action — and, if you like what you see, you can contact our customer service team to set up a free trial. Find out why Intradyn is the all-in-one archiving solution of choice for so many organizations and get started on your own archiving journey today!