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CommVault Simpana 9 Software Grabs the Top Spot in DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide

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CommVault Simpana 9 Software Grabs the Top Spot in DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide

CommVault Surpasses All Other Software Providers in Earning Highest Score for Overall Functionality & Best-in-Class Management Capabilities in Third-Party Industry Evaluation of Virtual Server Protection Software

CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) – SINGAPORE, December 15, 2010:

News Facts

· CommVault® Simpana® 9 software has garnered the No. 1 ranking in an independent industry guide to evaluating virtual server protection software, which was published by research firm DCIG on December 14, 2010.
· According to the report, CommVault received “Best in Class” honors for overall functionality in comparison to other solutions in the market, across seven categories encompassing technology, management, backup, restore, deduplication, media and support. CommVault outranked offerings from legacy software providers, including EMC, Symantec, CA and IBM, as well as point-level virtualization software vendors, such as Veeam.
· CommVault also received a “Best in Class” designation in the virtual server management category. DCIG cited Simpana software as a “stand out” in this category, as the majority of other top-ranked vendors didn’t offer the same level of management features and functionality.
· The DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide evaluated 24 vendors that provide virtual server protection software. The findings were based on responses to 130 questions and end-user interviews that scored and ranked features according to those considered critical to customers today.

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CommVault Enables Businesses to Accelerate Virtual Server Adoption and Reap Dramatic Cost Savings

· As today’s data centers rapidly transition to modern, virtualized architectures, enterprises face significant challenges, including increasing data storage complexity, exploding information growth, regulatory requirements and highly mobile workforces.
· CommVault, and its award winning Simpana software, is recognized for its ability to enable automated and scalable virtual data centers with a modern data and information management approach. Uniquely, CommVault drives down complexity with a single backup application approach for virtual and physical server environments that helps to substantially reduce corporate risk, improve IT operations and lower costs.
· CommVault SnapProtect™ technology integrates intelligent application agents with leading hardware array-based snapshots to eliminate legacy streaming-backup approaches while providing rapid protection and recovery of up to thousands of VMs. Real-world tests revealed that Simpana software can protect 500 VMs in 17 minutes.
· Simpana software also streamlines the management of ever-increasing VMs with automated discovery and auto-protection of file servers as well as integrated file-, volume- and VM-level recovery with multiple recovery points per day.
· With its single-platform, modular approach to data management, CommVault further reduces the cost and complexity of moving backup and archive data to a tier of cloud-based storage solutions.

Supporting Quotes

· “CommVault is unique in our approach to modernizing data management with a single application for managing sprawl, scalability and backup and recovery across both physical and virtual server environments,” says David West, vice president of marketing and business development for CommVault. “Both customers and analysts have responded favorably to our Simpana 9 software enhancements, and DCIG’s ‘ Best in Class’ ranking further affirms that we’re gaining significant momentum in leading the industry by solving tough business problems with proven solutions that lower costs, reduce risk and improve operations.”
· “Our latest buyer’s guide is the result of an extensive efforts evaluating different vendors’ solutions and talking to end-users to provide an insider’s look at the virtual server backup landscape,” says Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst of DCIG Inc. “In doing so, it became apparent that CommVault really stood out in delivering both the features and functionality that end-users determined were most important in meeting their emerging business requirements.”

Resources

· CommVault® Simpana® 9 Software

http://www.commvault.com/simpana.html

· CommVault Simpana Virtual Server Protection

http://www.commvault.com/simpana.html#t-2

· More on how CommVault Simpana software protects hundreds of virtual machines in minutes

http://info.commvault.com/forms/VirtuallyPerfectProtectionPart1?cmpgn=70140000000MKtq

· More CommVault news

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About CommVault

A singular vision – a belief in a better way to address current and future data and information management needs – guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault’s exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault’s Simpana® software modules were designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, to deliver superlative Data Backup, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. More companies every day join those who have discovered the unparalleled efficiency, performance, reliability, and control only CommVault can offer. Information about CommVault is available at www.commvault.com. CommVault’s corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States.

Safe Harbor Statement

Customers’ results may differ materially from those stated herein; CommVault does not guarantee that all customers can achieve benefits similar to those stated above. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive factors, difficulties and delays inherent in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of software products and related services, general economic conditions and others. Statements regarding CommVault’s beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. CommVault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.

©1999-2010 CommVault Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. CommVault, CommVault and logo, the “CV” logo, CommVault Systems, Solving Forward, SIM, Singular Information Management, Simpana, CommVault Galaxy, Unified Data Management, QiNetix, Quick Recovery, QR, CommNet, GridStor, Vault Tracker, InnerVault, Quick Snap, QSnap, Recovery Director, CommServe, CommCell, SnapProtect, ROMS and CommValue, are trademarks or registered trademarks of CommVault Systems, Inc. All other third party brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of and used to identify the products or services of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice.

ⁱBased on Dell lab testing conducted on the PowerVault DL2200 on July 2010 with twelve 1TB HDD. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.

ⁱⁱData deduplication can reduce storage requirements by up to 95% compared to the same amount of tape, which in turn can reduce backup windows, increase restore times, and save money. (Individual results will vary. See the CommVault data deduplication calculator at www.Dell.com/diskbackup to estimate reductions based on various factors.

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CommVault Debut of Simpana 9 Modernises Data Management with Major Gains in it Efficiency, Cost Optimisation & Scale

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:13:44 +0000

CommVault Debut of Simpana 9 Modernises Data Management with Major Gains in it

Efficiency, Cost Optimisation & Scale

Simpana Software Continues to Evolve to Meet the Growing Needs of Today’s Modern Data Center with Massive Virtualization Performance and Scalability, Embedded Source and Target Deduplication & Fast-Pass Migration from Legacy Software

CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) – SINGAPORE, October 6, 2010:

News Facts

Today’s introduction and availability of CommVault’s next generation release Simpana® 9 breaks new ground by enabling companies to deploy for the first time truly modern data management that bridges the physical storage world and the rapidly emerging virtual one.
As enterprises transform their IT landscapes to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs, legacy data management products lack the intelligence, automation and scalability to protect, store and recover vast amounts of data proliferating across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
The latest release of Simpana software solves these real-world IT challenges with major technology advancements, including increased virtualization scalability and performance, integrated source and target data deduplication, automatic and transparent integration with hardware array-based snapshots, as well as new tools that ease migration to CommVault’s next generation Simpana 9 platform.
With Simpana 9, CommVault delivers on its forward-looking vision of a better way to manage data, making it easier for customers to buy, deploy and support a data and information management strategy built on the industry’s first modern data management software. By tightly integrating snapshot, replication and persistent copies that are secure, deduplicated and all managed by one protection policy behind a single pane of glass, Simpana 9 makes it easy for companies to not only backup and protect their data, but to quickly and easily find, access and recover it anywhere and at any time.
Automatic policies eliminate the need for manual management cycles while also tiering data seamlessly and efficiently from the application array to the cloud for significant capital and storage cost savings of up to 50 percent. By integrating deduplication at the source and target, Simpana software dramatically improves backup speeds and efficiency, eliminating up to 90 percent of redundant data and reducing network traffic by up to 90 percent. Simpana software’s independence from hardware and storage appliances, coupled with its ability to scale effortlessly as a data center or virtual environment expands helps reduce downtime, improve SLAs, all while responding faster to changing business demands, both now and in the future.
Today’s announcement is the first in a two-pronged launch with additional information management capabilities to be announced later this month.

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Expanded Virtualization Scalability & Support

CommVault has enhanced its Simpana platform to support new Virtual Machines (VMs) and data growth by seamlessly scaling to safeguard thousands of VMs in heterogeneous environments without forcing customers to make compromises on data access or availability.
Simpana 9 software also leverages CommVault’s SnapProtect™ snapshot technology to provide rapid protection and recovery of VMs. Real world test results have shown that 500 VMs can be protected in just 17 minutes using Simpana software.
Additionally, Simpana 9 dramatically reduces the complexity of managing and protecting sprawling VMs with advanced, automated discovery and more granular restore capabilities.
CommVault’s single console offers unique integrated visibility into resource consumption and storage utilization for both virtual and physical environments resulting in simplified lifecycle management, protection and retention of data across all tiers.

Universal Deduplication Encompassing Source-Side Data Reduction

New source-side deduplication builds upon CommVault’s proven, hardware-agnostic deduplication capabilities to reduce the amount of data being transferred across corporate networks for backup or replication by up to 90 percent, while slashing backup windows by more than 30 percent.
Universal deduplication enables customers to have multiple protection policies, each with its own retention period, to access a common deduplication store and reduce redundant data across multiple locations, VMs and systems for major savings in global data footprints.
For SAP customers, CommVault offers new integration capabilities including policy-based archiving for improved database and application performance.
Simpana 9 deduplication takes advantage of CommVault’s unified product architecture, with one set of shared resources and a centralized view of consolidated data, to deliver unprecedented flexibility in designing backup infrastructures and policies for datacenters and remote offices, based on business demands, not deduplication requirements.

Extended Application Management & Integration

With Simpana 9 software, CommVault delivers greater application protection by blending its SnapProtect technology with integrated, intelligent data management that spans application, database and storage layers.
With previous support for all other major platforms and applications, CommVault now also provides broadened storage array support for HP, IBM and LSI along with expanded application support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and DB2 to ensure rapid recovery and improved SLAs.
Simpana 9 enables users to extract messages and documents from SnapProtect copies of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint without requiring the original application, thus expediting eDiscovery and search requirements while also offloading production servers.

Simplified Licensing & ‘Fast Pass’ Deployment Ease Migrations

With Simpana 9, CommVault is unveiling a simplified, capacity-based licensing model with improved storage resource management featuring integrated reporting that automatically reassesses daily usage and provides threshold warnings along with trending analysis.
CommVault is also making it much easier and faster for customers to migrate to the advantages of Simpana 9 by automating the replacement of legacy data management tools, such as Symantec NetBackup and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, with “Fast Pass” Simpana 9 software migration. These new tools can be used to auto-discover client information, policies and job details existing on legacy master servers.

To further ease migration, CommVault transparently installs agents on targeted clients for immediate transition to Simpana 9 software without any impact to existing policies or job schedules.
CommVault’s new Migration Operations Services Suite provides a full breadth of professional services, audit management and best practices to ensure quick, trouble-free transitions while setting the stage for significant improvements in modern data management powered by CommVault.
Additionally, all Simpana 9 customers can now test drive CommVault’s Remote Operations Management Service (ROMS®) on install. Remote monitoring extends CommVault’s support as the extra set of eyes and ears into end user’s data management environments – reducing turnaround time, proactively correcting issues and establishing oversight.

Supporting Quotes

N. Robert Hammer, CommVault’s chairman, president and CEO

“There’s a lot to consider in today’s brave new world of virtualization and cloud computing, especially the impact on data management since legacy solutions typically require multiple, disjointed products to support the physical and virtual worlds of computing, as well as everything in between. With Simpana 9, we’re changing all that by building on the strengths of our singular platform while delivering industry-leading automation, integration and scalability. Now more than ever, Simpana 9’s unified platform, advanced functionality and software migration tools make it incredibly easy, efficient and economical to choose CommVault as the de facto standard in modern data management.”

Dave Russell, research vice president for Gartner

“Cloud computing and virtualization are important catalysts for change, enabling organizations to deploy new infrastructures to drive increased IT agility and greater business value. To reap these benefits, however, fundamental improvements in data management are warranted, especially as traditional backup and recovery no longer suffice for current–no less future–requirements. What’s needed is a modern data management approach that scales massive amounts of information and automates well-defined processes to collapse backup windows, reduce labor costs and transform businesses with accelerated time-to-value.”

Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group

“Demands for backup modernization are elevated as CIOs seek ways to reduce costs and risk, while ensuring that IT decisions yield maximum value. With its new Simpana release, CommVault is breaking barriers with improved scalability, increased levels of protection, faster recovery, and greater efficiency for managing physical and virtual server environments. With new licensing options and migration enablement, CommVault is also making it more feasible for organizations to replace inefficient point solutions with Simpana 9 and realize the lower overhead and increased efficiency benefits CIOs care about most.”

Industry analysts, customers and partners provide third-party validation and support for CommVault Simpana 9 software.

Resources

Register for Simpana 9 Virtual Launch Event: http://bit.ly/9X9bvj
CommVault® Simpana® 9 Software Online Press Kit: http://news.commvault.com/Simpana9/
More CommVault news: http://news.commvault.com/

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About CommVault

Safe Harbor Statement

ⁱBased on Dell lab testing conducted on the PowerVault DL2200 on July 2010 with twelve 1TB HDD. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.

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CommVault and Dell Drive Operational Efficiencies & Cloud Enablement with New Dell PowerVault DL Appliance

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:56:41 +0000

CommVault and Dell Drive Operational Efficiencies & Cloud Enablement with New Dell PowerVault DL Appliance

New Dell PowerVault DL Powered by CommVault Simpana Software Delivers All-in-One Disk-Based Backup, Deduplication & Archive Solution with Optional Expansion to More than 300 TBs of Capacity Designed for On-Premise, Remote Office and Cloud Environments

CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) – SINGAPORE, September 20, 2010:

News Facts

CommVault and Dell continue to reinforce their strong OEM partnership with the introduction of the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL Backup to Disk Appliance, powered byCommVault® with Simpana® 8. This latest addition to the Dell PowerVault product line provides integrated data management with industry-leading scalability, cloud support, faster throughput, optimized deduplication and a smaller form factor for increased cost savings and operational efficiencies.
Ideally suited for remote offices and any business looking to deduplicate, backup,archive and recover data to and from public and private storage cloud environments, the new DL Appliance provides up to 24 TBs of internal storage capacity in a 2U form factor, with ability to scale to over 300TB.
Additionally, the DL Appliance delivers end-to-end block-based deduplication and can achieve deduplication throughput rates up to 3 TB/hr when performing weekly backup operationsⁱ.
The DL Appliance can facilitate faster backups and restores of both physical and virtual environments, with both VMware and Hyper-V protection options.

An Ideal Solution for Managing and Protecting Virtualized Application and Cloud Environments

CommVault has optimized its embedded deduplication for the DL Appliance. Built-in data deduplication can reduce storage by up to 95 percentⁱⁱ. The DL Appliance also can further optimize storage resources, lower risk and improve operational efficiencies with CommVault’s archiving capabilities.
With Simpana software, DL2200 users can retain data longer and more cost effectively by utilizing the DL Appliance for Microsoft Windows, Exchange,SharePoint and Linux file archiving.
CommVault’s virtual server agent now integrates vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) to enable more efficient protection of VMware ESX environments including centralized, off-host, LAN-free backups of VMware vSphere virtual machines. The Dell PowerVault DL Appliance is an ideal repository for agent-less disk backup of up to hundreds of virtual machines reducing the amount of resources needed to protect VM infrastructures. Additionally, automated discovery and backup of newly created virtual machines reduces the management and risk of unprotected virtual machine data.
With powerful cloud protection capabilities, encrypted, deduplicated backup and archive data on the DL Appliance can now be seamlessly extended into public cloud storage services from Amazon, Iron Mountain, Microsoft Azure, and Nirvanix for long term, offsite retention.
CommVault’s Simpana SnapProtect™ technology schedules EqualLogic hardware snapshots for application data to merge backup and restore capabilities with persistent snapshot copies for fast recovery.

Streamlined Management and Operation Lowers Administrative Overhead

The Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance, powered by CommVault leverages a single management console with a consolidated view of data across all applications, platforms, devices and locations to simplify deployment, configuration and management.
An easy wizard-driven setup and management utility, along with integrated, dynamic disk provisioning, also ease and expedite operation requiring less expertise and staff to administer backups. According to Dell, PowerVault appliances can be deployed and performing backups in 27 minutes.
The Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance, powered by CommVault also provides integrated tape support availability with the Dell PowerVault TL2000, TL4000 and ML6000 tape libraries to streamline disk-to-tape data protection while increasing disaster recovery capabilities.

Supporting Quotes

“Since partnering with Dell to deliver the first integrated data management solution more than a year ago, we have worked together closely to extend this joint offering and set the bar for performance and scalability,” says David West, vice president of marketing and business development for CommVault. “With the Dell PowerVault Appliance Powered by CommVault, we’re offering unrivaled storage density along with the benefits of embedded deduplication as well as integrated Simpana software functionality, all in a 2U appliance that lets Dell customers maximize storage capacity and take advantage of cloud storage, while minimizing costs and requirements.”
“This latest version of the Dell PowerVault product line reinforces our Intelligent Data Management strategy to simplify data storage and provide our customers with integrated solutions and enterprise-class features,” says Brett Roscoe, Global Lead for Storage Marketing. “This solution will appeal to SMBs as well as larger enterprises looking for affordable, easier solutions for controlling storage growth and costs while helping to ensure the highest levels of data protection.”

Resources

CommVault’s Virtualization Solutions
http://www.commvault.com/solutions-virtualization.html
CommVault Announces VMware Ready™ Support for VMware vSphere™ 4.1
http://news.commvault.com/press/000536_CommVault_Announces_VMware_Ready_Support_for_VMware_vSphere_41_to_Help.asp
CommVault Simpana Deduplication Software
http://www.commvault.com/solutions-deduplication.html
More CommVault news
http://news.commvault.com/
Follow CommVault on Twitter
http://twitter.com/CommVault

About CommVault

Safe Harbor Statement

ⁱBased on Dell lab testing conducted on the PowerVault DL2200 on July 2010 with twelve 1TB HDD. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.

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CommVault Releases Results of End-User Virtualization Survey Reinforcing Need for Automated, Scalable & Modern Data Management to Streamline Rapid Adoption of Virtualization

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:59:08 +0000

CommVault Releases Results of End-User Virtualization Survey Reinforcing Need for Automated, Scalable & Modern Data Management to Streamline Rapid Adoption of Virtualization

Enterprises Worldwide Continue to Embrace Server Virtualization for Improved Business Cost Savings & Efficiencies yet Face Challenges in Managing Virtualized Environments

CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) – SINGAPORE, September 1, 2010:

News Facts

CommVault has released the results of its Virtualization Survey, which polled Simpana® Software customers worldwide to determine the key factors driving adoption of server virtualization and the major challenges associated with managing these environments.
A total of 479 respondents underscored the continued rise in server virtualization, with 46 percent of those polled citing that between 51- and 85-percent of their total servers were virtualized while 21 percent reported successful virtualization of all or nearly all servers. VMware was listed as the virtualization platform of choice by 83 percent of those polled.
The survey revealed that the top three factors driving server virtualization decisions among the respondents are: the need for improved business cost savings and efficiencies, customer responsiveness and improved service levels. The opportunity to leverage virtualization as an alternative disaster recovery strategy was also cited.
The majority of CommVault customers polled for this survey are running mission-critical applications on VMs in their production environment. Some industry commentary has suggested that many organizations are reluctant to deploy vital applications on virtualized infrastructures because of data protection concerns. With Simpana software, CommVault continues to address these concerns, effectively alleviating data management difficulties in virtualized environments.
According to those polled, the top three challenges relative to managing virtualized server environments include the inability to backup all virtual machines (VMs) reliably and in a timely manner, additional resource costs and administrative time due to lack of data management automation and the increased demand for corporate-wide virtualization.
Survey respondents are embracing Simpana software to overcome these data management challenges and increase their IT agility. In choosing Simpana software, they cited features/functionality, performance, simplicity and scalability as major decision drivers.

Surge in Mission-Critical Applications Running on Virtual Machines

According to the survey results, 77 percent of the respondents are running mission-critical applications on VMs in their production environments and nearly 50 percent are running between 50-250 VMs.
According to the CommVault survey, ongoing virtualization projects are generating increasingly larger amounts of data, with 36 percent of those polled creating between 1-5 TBs of data and another 23 percent generating between 6-10 TBs of data through VMs or VM-based applications.
To protect this ongoing surge in virtualized data, more than half of the CommVault survey participants rely only on backup copies as their disaster recovery strategy while 18 percent utilize software replication and 16 percent use hardware replication.
Industry research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reinforces this growing trend, identifying increased use of server virtualization as the No. 1 IT priority over the next 12-18 months.¹

Simpana Software Simplifies Virtualized Data Management, Reduces Time and Costs

ESG also reports that more than half of the organizations it has researched are using separate backup applications for virtual and physical server environments, yet three out of four organizations would prefer a single application to protect all servers.²
Respondents to CommVault’s survey cite as the top three operational benefits from using Simpana software: ease of management due to its single software platform, time and resource savings, and overall reductions in hardware licensing costs.
According to CommVault, legacy data management tools lack the intelligence, automation and scalability required to seamlessly move data between physical and virtual IT infrastructures.
In contrast, CommVault Simpana software leverages a singular platform, centralized management and advanced functionality to easily and cost-effectively manage modern data centers with large populations of virtual machines. With Simpana software, customers can protect both physical and virtual servers in minutes while scaling to accommodate thousands of VMs across global enterprises.

Methodology

CommVault distributed its virtualization survey via email to 10,076 Simpana software customers worldwide over an eight-day period starting on August 12, 2010 and received 479 responses. Nearly 60 percent of the survey participants reported they had responsibility for the organization’s entire data management strategy, encompassing backup, virtualization, archive, recovery, etc.
Of the survey respondents, 30 percent are employed at organizations with more than 2,000 personnel while 35 percent work for companies employing between 500 and 1,999 people.

Supporting Quotes

David West, vice president of marketing and business development for CommVault:

“The results of CommVault’s virtualization survey reinforce what we’ve been hearing from our customers–embracing virtualization can dramatically reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies as long as you can easily and reliably manage the massive volume of data produced by hundreds of VMs. With our unifying code base and singular platform, Simpana software is uniquely equipped to bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds of computing while ensuring the highest levels of data management and protection.”

Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group:

“Using separate solutions to back up and recover physical and virtual systems can be inefficient and lead to additional management overhead while introducing complexity into the recovery process. ESG research respondents are aware of this trade-off, which is why the overwhelming majority cite a preferred approach of using a single backup application for both virtual and physical environments.”

Resources

CommVault’s Virtualization Solutions
http://www.commvault.com/solutions-virtualization.html
CommVault Announces VMware Ready™ Support for VMware vSphere™ 4.1
http://news.commvault.com/press/000536_CommVault_Announces_VMware_Ready_Support_for_VMware_vSphere_41_to_Help.asp
CommVault Simpana Deduplication Software
http://www.commvault.com/solutions-deduplication.html
More CommVault news
http://news.commvault.com/
Follow CommVault on Twitter
http://twitter.com/CommVault

About CommVault

Safe Harbor Statement

¹ ESG Research Report, 2010 IT Spending Intentions Survey, January 2010.
² ESG Research Report, 2010 Data Protection Trends, April 2010.

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Data trends among public organizations

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:41:15 +0000

The interview covers the areas of levels of sophistication of IT usage among governments in Asia, role of compliance and corporate governance, access to information, e-Discovery and data protection. It focuses on the core issues of data management that the public sector faces across the APAC region.