Today Commvault announced the newest generation of its solutions portfolio; this makes the eleventh version of Commvault’s solution portfolio. The new portfolio is designed to address the challenges of managing data and information in highly disrupted, fast-paced global business environments with a broad spectrum of innovation. To meet customers demands and market shifts, Commvault states they will continue to deliver regular and continuous innovations, features, functionality, and capabilities.
Today Commvault announced the newest generation of its solutions portfolio; this makes the eleventh version of Commvault’s solution portfolio. The new portfolio is designed to address the challenges of managing data and information in highly disrupted, fast-paced global business environments with a broad spectrum of innovation. To meet customers demands and market shifts, Commvault states they will continue to deliver regular and continuous innovations, features, functionality, and capabilities.
Commvault’s latest offerings are out to tackle quite a few issues from data protection to archive to application aware cloud data markets. The new solution release is aimed to help customers of all sizes move from traditional infrastructure to modern hyperconverged infrastructure, consume new technologies, and fully utilize the cloud for critical business workloads. Commvault plans on achieving these goals with its combination of fully integrated software applications and professional services. This will give customers the flexibility of infrastructure, platform, compute, and storage providers, and help avoid vendor lock-in.
Commvault is transforming its solutions and platform with a focus on openness. This openness will help the Commvault Data Platform to become a powerful IT management platform with a full range to tools and technologies to streamline data management operations. This new openness also allows for innovation while exposing new markets for the company and its partners. The openness of the platform also allows customers and third party software partners the ability to write their applications directly to the Commvault Data Platform.
Key innovations include:
- An open, standards-based approach: Runs natively in traditional on premise, hyper and converged environments, and across hybrid, private and public clouds, for protection, retention, access and compliance
- Enabling disruption: Single, unified data management approach takes the risk out of adopting new technology, and helps companies deal with the uncertainties arising from marketplace disruption
- The end of lock-in: Traditional data software format lock-in is eliminated and sets the new standard in hardware and infrastructure options for customers
- Move to the cloud: Provides the bridge from legacy to transitional hybrid to true exploitation of the public cloud; simplifies native moves to and from the cloud to enable DR; and fully migrate business critical workloads (compliance, data governance and backup) into the cloud; assures data security to, from, and in the cloud through advanced authentication and encryption protocols
- Redefines archive: Transform inaccessible digital landfills into directly accessible active data sets through familiar user experiences (file explorer, Outlook, mobile, etc.)
- Hardware array & converged and hyper-converged infrastructure ready: Leading the industry in snaps and replication management across HW arrays and infrastructures provides flexibility and choice
- Governance throughout the data lifecycle: Apply active governance from when data is created based on content and context, rather than applying methodologies only after the data is created
- End-to-end data security built in: security is fully integrated for data in all locations, with management, audit and compliance monitoring & reporting throughout
- Shift and reduce traditional IT spend through smarter IT: Speeds time to value, consolidates point solutions, shift resources from low to high value through faster business process execution and increased automation
- Total Search: Search across all data (live and versioned), in all locations, across structured and unstructured data
- Extending IntelliSnap vendor support for snapshot orchestration to include Pure Storage, and Nutanix.
- Also extending IntelliSnap application workload coverage to include SAP HANA & Sybase and Postgres to the supported application portfolio.
- Introducing new Intellisnap orchestration to include an expansion into replication and DR management options adding management of EMC and HDS replication configurations to complement Commvault’s current NetApp replication capabilities.
- Open API architecture provides universal access to data under management in its standard captured format avoiding storage device lock-in.
- Enable more active archive with the ability to create natively accessible secondary copies (REST/FS/APIs) where backup doesn’t make economic, performance, nor accessibility sense, like with rich media, pictures, genomics, video, etc.
- Powerful orchestration enables automation of workflows, not only through pre-configured common tasks and use cases, but also for customers and partners to build and deploy custom workflows to drive efficiencies in operations requiring the activation and usage of points in time of data. The platform increases reliability and lowers cost of ongoing IT and business operational tasks by closing the gap between the operation and the data.
- Instantaneous recovery virtually eliminates downtimes with direct native access from the open platform to point-in-time data copies.
- Application awareness assures data is always available in the format required without a rewrite from proprietary storage and indexing protocols.
- Extended native or on demand data delivery services that provide near instant interactive access (recovery points) from the Commvault Virtual Repository in the format requested by the application, resulting in reduced operational effort, time and risk.
- Improved user interfaces (UI) matched with enhanced reporting provide increased user efficiency and operational simplicity, while new innovation enables custom UI consoles both by user role and by use case.
- The reduction of backup copy windows through intelligent incremental capture for files and applications opens opportunities to dramatically reduce workload impact during data protection operations while providing downstream efficiencies in network and storage utilization. Only reading and moving the delta blocks and only storing the unique changed blocks reduces bandwidth and storage requirements for ongoing recovery operations and dramatically improves RPO and RTO speed.
- Commvault is also redefining recovery service levels by offering organizations a complete spectrum of recovery options across managed data — spanning snapshots, clones, vaults, and backups under a layer of native access methods
Commvault is also embracing the expanding virtualization platforms by offering a richer set of data management options for these hypervisors including:
- Further extending Commvault’s leading virtualization coverage which today handles VMWare, Microsoft HyperV, and Citrix XenApp and now includes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
- Lead the industry with virtual machine (VM) provisioning with easy workload portability across environments including VMWare, Hyper-V, Azure and AWS to drive more efficient use, enable automated DR solutions and drive cloud-based Test/Dev operations
- Disaster recovery orchestration technologies that speed and simplify disaster recovery planning and execution both on & off premise and in the cloud. These enhancements make DR operations easy to implement, test, validate, change and deploy regardless of the infrastructures and cloud technologies to be used.
Along with the announcements above, Commvault is also announcing deeper integration with its partners. Commvault is working with Pure Storage to integrate its IntelliSnap with snapshots on Pure Storage’s FlashArray. With this integration, customers use Commvault’s Intellisnap technology to orchestrate snapshot management (including recovery operation) while leveraging space-efficient snapshots on the Pure Storage FlashArray for point-in-time copies. Commvault is also integrating its Intellisnap with Hitachi Data Systems’s (HDS) Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G Series enterprise storage arrays. This integration into HDS arrays provides local and integrated remote replicated application aware snapshots across an HDS managed replication architecture, adding in the complex lifecycle of snapshot management across the replication pair into one seamless framework. And finally, through Commvault’s partnership with Nutanix, it is extending its snapshot management capabilities to include the Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP).
Availability
Commvault’s new software and service are already deployed in early adopter customers and is expected to be generally available in December 2015. Existing customers will be able to seamlessly consume this new software through upgrading.
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