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CommVault Simpana Software Innovations Released

by Lyle Smith

CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, it helps increase protection and management of data center, virtualized, edge and cloud computing environments.


CommVault is set to unveil its next-generation of Singular Information Management innovations at SolveForward 2012 today, which will allow Simpana software customers to further lower their data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, and easily extract data for improved decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. In addition, it helps increase protection and management of data center, virtualized, edge and cloud computing environments.

Simpana’s new OnePass capabilities significantly decreases the combined time typically required to backup, archive, and report by 50 percent or more over traditional methods with the industry’s first converged backup, archive, and reporting process designed to affordably protect, manage and access data on systems that have become too large. Simpana OnePass’ policies now give full coverage for scale-out file systems, such as Dell Lustre HPC and HP X9000 Network Storage System, to combine cost-effective protection, retention, and management for Big Data solutions.

Simpana SnapProtect technology now provides customers with SAN investment protection and choice, by eliminating the backup window, which quickens recovery and reducing costs. Its new technology unlocks the value of snapshot and replication techniques by eliminating scripting through automated policy management, while providing a centralized console for managing multiple-vendor SAN arrays. Additionally, the Simpana SnapProtect technology catalogs snapshot data to enable granular recovery while automating the movement of deduplicated data in order to lower cost storage media for long-term retention.

Enhancements to Simpana Virtual Server Protection accelerate virtual server adoption by aiding organizations to better manage, protect, and scale virtual machines across their enterprises and into the cloud. These enchantments include:

  • New Reference Architectures Accelerate Application Migration – Leveraging Simpana SnapProtect for virtual server protection, new scalable reference architectures for virtual infrastructure building blocks on NetApp storage deliver massively scalable data protection for large VM deployments.
  • New Self-Service Restores Increase Agility – New self-service recovery options for VMware simplify restore operations in multi-tenant environments to free IT resources for more strategic projects. A vCenter plugin enables VM admins to restore files directly from the vCenter console to lower management costs. A web-based restore console enables admins and users to restore their own data, skipping the low-level helpdesk calls.
  • New VirtualizeMe P2V Automated DR Testing Reduces Risk – By leveraging the encapsulation and portability features built into the virtual platform, Simpana software users can dramatically simplify and accelerate their DR test processes by performing a “Virtualize Me” automated virtual recovery.

New Simpana Edge Protection protects data on laptops and desktops with embedded source deduplication for optimized efficiency. End users now have ability to search, access, and perform self-service recovery via any Windows, iOS and/or Android device. Integrated content indexing centralizes discovery of edge data that are located in the datacenter or cloud storage to lower risk and eDiscovery costs.

New Simpana 9 integration with Microsoft SharePoint improves application performance, capacity utilization, and reduces backup windows. Organizations can easily manage growing SharePoint deployments across their organizations, without impacting business risk and productivity. Additionally, it provides data reporting and analysis to aid organizations in understanding their SharePoint data and implement storage policies for optimized performance.

Simpana software is now available with a simplified, capacity-based licensing model and is available directly from CommVault and through official partner and distribution channels. Pricing for specific system configurations is available upon request.

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