CommVault eases cloud computing challenges with new launch

Commvault, an enterprise data protection and information management provider, has added to its portfolio to turn data into a strategic asset.

With the release of Commvault Cloud Disaster Recovery, Commvault Cloud Development and Test, Commvault Cloud Gateway and Commvault Cloud Replication, the company is addressing the need to move data to the cloud, reduce costs, and improve utilisation.

“Enterprises are moving to operationalise cloud usage for applications and accelerate the time to value,” said Sabrinath Rao, head of the Cloud Business Unit at Commvault. “Our solutions make it much easier for customers to derive value from their cloud investments, by deeply integrating the on-premise and in-cloud infrastructure, starting with the data and then extending out to controlling access and optimising utilisation.”

Commvault Cloud Disaster Recovery is a first step in cloud adoption, enabling:

· Recovery in the cloud, regardless of on-premise deployment model, hypervisor (VMware/ HyperV), or location (public/private/hybrid)
· Consistent policy based management by extending virtual machine (VM) provisioning and workflows from on premise into the public/hybrid cloud.
· Full restores to VMs in infrastructure-as-a-service models

Commvault also enhanced solution set offerings with Cloud Development and Test, Cloud Gateway and Cloud Replication modules.

· Cloud Development and Test uses VM provisioning and workflows to manage the utilisation of test and development environments in the cloud.

· Building on the success of its appliance offering, the software-based Cloud Gateway improves overall backup agility, flexibility and performance, extending the protection tier from on-premise to the cloud.

· Cloud Replication completes Commvault’s cloud capabilities in giving customers flexibility in how to get data to the cloud.

“The cloud is quickly growing in the enterprise from a pure backup play to becoming a real production-level environment,” said Phil Goodwin, Research Director at IDC. “That transition requires cost-effective and efficient access, through the type of capabilities Commvault is debuting, to accelerate data cloud recovery and migration.”

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