CommVault Simpana

The CommVault company developed a single scalable software platform which code base will integrate a set of modules for integrally integrated data protection and content management. The platform supports software modules with functions of backup and data recovery, their archiving, deduplication, replication, hierarchical distribution of carriers and enciphering. Modules of the platform work with corporate content from different sources and provide end-to-end information search in corporate environment and its permanent availability even from archives thanks to uniform intellectual indexation of documents in virtual storage. The platform is also supplied with the developed tools of analytics, creating reports on actions of users and applications and on functioning of infrastructure.

CommVault Simpana protects, recovers and manages data and access to them in physical and virtual environments. System modules are licensed separately.

2016 Commvault v.11

On March 9, 2016 the Commvault company announced release of the 11th version of the product CommVault Simpana.

This version of a product helps to manage flexibly integrated data and information, to provide the organization of backup and disaster recovery of data in a cloud of IaaS-provider, to guarantee protection of the cloud platform and to exercise control of workflows.

Commvault v.11 program and hardware independent platform for protection and data management of applications, operating systems, DWH and cloud platforms. A system executes data backup and virtual environments, provides automatic control of virtual infrastructure, archiving of data - including e-mail, file servers, virtual machines, databases and other information. Principal components of Commvault v11:

• CommServe,
• ContentStore,
• Data Agent,
• Media Agent.

Using Data Agent data are collected from all applications, file systems and indexed by means of Media Agent then get to uniform deduplitsirovanny storage ContentStore where automatic politicians of redistribution of data are set. Thus, Commvault stores indexes in media agents, but not on the managing server. At the same time media agents can be much that provides balancing of loading and fault tolerance.

2015

Simpana for Endpoint Data Protection

On January 28, 2015 it became known of release of a solution package^[1] by CommVault company^[1].

The product is created for protection of notebooks, desktop PCs and mobile devices of remote workers, in its functionality of a possibility of data backup and secure access.

Simpana for Endpoint Data Protection is delivered in the form of a separate set of solutions. The product is focused on the organizations - to cut down expenses, to reduce risks due to data loss prevention and implementation on the scale of all enterprise of uniform policy of observance of requirements of the legislation and eDiscovery. The packet increases productivity of staff of all divisions at the expense of self service features for data recovery, safe file sharing and application of the enhanced capabilities of analytics given and drawing up account.

Window of the Simpana for Endpoint Data Protection program, 2014

The solution Endpoint Data Protection of CommVault provides fast backup and data recovery on client devices:

• helps to implement control of data on client devices using protection of notebooks, transparent for users, and desktop PCs and deduplication of data on the party of a source,
• gives the chance of flexible configuration of schedules and regulation of bandwidth;
• reduces risks for business by means of protection of intellectual property of the companies with setup of rules of protection;
• improves productivity by means of access to the protected data using the web portal, mobile applications and directly from Conductor of Windows at any time and from everywhere.

Safe file sharing is provided:

• access to files from notebooks and mobile devices;
• improves possibilities of joint work at the enterprise without the request for the help in IT department or uses of unsafe public "clouds";
• guarantees security of confidential data about business and observance of corporate rules of work with data using the IT configured the politician.

Advantages

• optimizes corporate management, implementing on the scale of all enterprise search of electronic documents, their detection and legal deduction (preserving from inadvertent or purposeful change or removal);
• accelerates preparation of answers on requests of judicial authorities and provides readiness for accomplishment of new requirements of the legislation due to implementation on the scale of all enterprise of uniform storage and search of all electronic documents (Electronically Stored Information, ESI);
• provides secure access on the basis of roles and an opportunity it is easy to deliver the found data on legal deduction.

End-to-end system of security and data loss prevention:

• uses functions of remote elimination of data remote wipe for minimizing of risk of loss or theft of data, critical for business, because of unforeseen events; ensures data security and observance of requirements of the legislation using data encryption at their transfer and storage according to industrial and state rules and standards (by software of CommVault Simpana it is certified according to the FIPS 140-2 standard);
• prevents a non-authorized access to data with the help of selective enciphering of files and folders.

Simpana for Endpoint Data Protection visualizes a status of data for their intellectual analysis. Means of the analysis help to obtain valuable information for decision making. Convenient consoles simplify a compliance with regulatory requirements. The product controls data management, stored on client devices on the scale of all company, an employee group and the certain user using detailed information, including file type, its age and the size.

The functionality of Endpoint Data Protection Solution Set is expanded

On June 1, 2015 the CommVault company announced expansion of opportunities of a solution package Endpoint Data Protection Solution Set for simplification of work in the hybrid environment, giving to IT departments the chance to see data on services of file sharing OneDrive and Dropbox, to protect them according to information security standards.

CommVault expands possibilities of a packet of Endpoint Data Protection Solution Set and proposes to the companies corporate solution for synchronization and data exchange. It supplements existing solutions or serves them as a reasonable alternative as allows to protect fully data, critical for business, according to requirements of information security.

Use of services of file sharing, such as OneDrive and Dropbox, simplifies communications in the company. However it is necessary to pay for it: files which contain on such services are not included in backup copies and remain beyond the scope of corporate infrastructure of data management. Commvault File Sharing gives the chance to protect data on services of file sharing and to return them under full control of IT departments, without limiting at the same time convenience of users. This full solution, functional and simple in use, with a set of options, to the relevant best decisions in the market. Commvault File Sharing allows to store user data in the protected storage available from any web browser or from any mobile device and at the same time to conform to the most strict requirements of information security.

Commvault Endpoint Data Protection Solution Set will help to reduce risks of use of public cloud storages. This solution package guarantees that data which employees exchange through OneDrive, Dropbox and other services are visible to IT departments, are protected and saved in the backup copy and also are available to viewing by regulatory authorities within compliance of requirements of the regulator.

2013: CommVault Simpana 10

The CommVault company which along with EMC, the analytical agency Gartner carries IBM and Symantec to market leaders of software of backup and data recovery for the enterprises at the end of February, 2013 submitted the next version of the main product Simpana. As tells CommVault, in Simpana 10 more than 300 improvements due to which performance of backup and archiving of data improved twice are implemented and also available to normal users (and not just to system administrators) functions of information search in backup copies using a virtual repository of data of ContentStore significantly extended. ContentStore uses the global metaindex allowing a message search both in names of files, and in their contents. One more important improvement of the new product CommVault is the accessibility of end users to backup copies of their files from smartphones and tablets.

The functionality of preserving and data recovery on the basis of instant pictures of IntelliSnap supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V hypervisor now. Simpana 10 is capable instant to recover virtual machines VMware and Hyper-V according to backup copies. Integration into server applications is also improved IBM DB2 Lotus Notes, SAP and Oracle. The new Simpana OnePass with Exchange technology provides long-term archiving of e-mail, converging in uniform process of backup procedure, signing up in archive and drawing up reports. Specially developed module for Microsoft Outlook allows users of this program to independently look for old letters to ContentStore and to take them. Also in Simpana 10 deduplication of new generation on the basis of architecture of Grid which doubles performance and scaling of this technology for the appropriation account for several nodes of the database in which information on backup copies is stored is applied. As a result the maximum volume of this database grew to 240 Tb (in Simpana 9 it was limited by 90 Tb).

2012: CommVault Simpana 9

• The software of Simpana 9 is the base for implementation of modern technologies of data management, with its help users can manage more effectively the information resources, quicker look for and recover data and it is as a result essential to reduce costs in comparison with poorly integrated outdated solutions. CommVault optimized the software of Simpana 9 for are hardwired data and information resources in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. The offered software implements really unified approach which helps users to improve performance, to increase efficiency and to reduce costs.
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Simpana 9 certified on compatibility with and supporting software is a single software platform for data protection, the organizations of active archive, granular backup and recovery, deduplication, search and indexing of content in the Windows environments Windows Server, Hyper-V and Windows applications. The software of CommVault also helps customers to migrate with UNIX, Linux and Netware on Windows as Simpana 9 is capable to execute backup in the diverse environment and data archives it is possible to recover in Windows.

CommVault Simpana 9 will help customers of VMware vSphere 5 to pass to infrastructures of private, public or hybrid "clouds"

Transition from physical to virtual data processing centers continues: more and more customers use virtual environment for the strategic applications. Rapid growth of amounts of data, deployment of the increasing number of virtual servers and increase in extent of consolidation of DPCs means for many organizations that there comes the turning point for legacy solutions of backup and recovery.

The release of VMware vSphere 5 and packet for deployment of cloud infrastructure will allow customers of VMware company to increase performance and scalability, supporting the virtual machines (VM) four times more powerful, than the previous versions. Such serious growth of computing resources, RAM, network resources and resources of storage means that IT departments can unroll surely more VM, create more powerful virtual machines and execute on them more exacting to performance and applications, critical for business.

The need for the modern solution of data management became sharper. Thanks to modern approach to data protection in virtual infrastructure (Modern Data Protection) the software of CommVault® Simpana® 9 is ready to such improbable growth of opportunities of VM. Simpana walks in step with improvements in technologies of VMware and can provide protection of hundreds of VM in minutes, scalability for protection of thousands of virtual machines and uses technology of beznagruzochny backup (off-host backup) that guarantees easy creation of backup copies even of the "heaviest" VM with intensive computing loading. With CommVault Simpana 9 Service Pack 3 customers will receive in the order even more flexible functions and control over virtual environments thanks to new management tools lifecycle of virtual machines and resource allocations.

The CommVault company announced release of a packet of Simpana 9 Service Pack 3 which will include a full support of VMware vSphere 5. The software of CommVault Simpana 9 SP3 will provide to customers the key means necessary for successful backup, recovery and transactions of data management in the environment of VMware vSphere 5, including:

• possibility of protection of hundreds of virtual machines in minutes; o scalability for protection of thousands of virtual machines;
• protection of applications with the most high computing load with the minimum influence on their work;
• viewing at the level of files for faster, simple and detailed recovery of files.

• Thanks to protection of VMware vSphere 5 using Simpana customers can be sure of effective and simple data protection of the most important applications that will help them to accelerate transition to scalable private, public and hybrid clouds.
• New abilities to manage lifecycle of virtual machines of VMware in SP3 allow to control creation and destruction of VM using the rules determined by the user. Via the Web console administrators can manage the VM groups created from the authorized VMware vCenter Server templates, to create such groups. Users have an opportunity to set the rules determining the term of life of VM for removal of virtual machines from a system and release of necessary resources for new distribution.
• New means of VM Live Browse allows users to browse at the detailed file level images of the backup copies of the virtual machines created based on Windows and saved in SnapProtect and SnapCopy. Sets of metadata in a backup task for this purpose are not required. This new option of viewing at the level of files automatically mounts an image of VM for submission of detailed information of file level in the browser and provides all to users of CommVault Virtual Server Agent (VSA) a possibility of data recovery at the level of files. The politician of storage users can specify in hierarchy for Live Browse any VSA/SnapCopy.

Responses about the software of Simpana 9 and an award of a product for a year of its existence

• Simpana software – one software product constructed on a single platform for intellectual management and data protection and information from the single console in the environment of diverse applications, hypervisors, operating systems and infrastructure.
• Being the only software offering approach to data management and information on the basis of a single platform, software of CommVault company provides the unified possibilities of backup and recovery, replication, archiving, corporate search and also means of eDiscovery (electronic disclosure of information in the legal purposes) and reductions of document flow in compliance with regulatory requirements. Such technology improvements as "pictures of data", the global built-in deduplication, the organization and indexing of content, effective migration from the competing products even more select the software of Simpana.
• The CommVault company is mentioned by one of the most prestigious ranks in the industry – '2011 Microsoft Server Platform Partner of the Year.' It is chosen from among Microsoft partners of the highest level for demonstration of innovations and implementation of solutions of customers on the basis of technology of Microsoft.
• CommVault entered also to a quadrant of Leaders of the made Gartner of "A magic quadrant" in producers of corporate assets of backup on disks and recovery (2011 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise, Disk-Based Backup and Recovery).
• The leading CommVault positions were confirmed recently by the Forbes magazine which included it in the list of the best small companies of America (2011 List of America's Best Small Companies).
• Besides, the software platform of CommVault Simpana 9 is mentioned for the last year by several industry awards. The CommVault company received two awards of "Midsize Enterprise Summit 2011 Innovation Awards", having won categories "The Best Software" and Best services. Also became software of Simpana 9 the winner in category "Backup and Recovery" according to the Best Of Tech-Ed 2011 Awards Program program and won first place in category "Product of Deduplication of Year" in tender 2011 of Storage Awards (Storries VIII) of the Storage Magazine magazine.

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