Commvault Data Platform

2018

Expansion of integration with Azure Stack

The Commvault company announced on April 18, 2018 expansion of integration into Microsoft Azure Stack that it will allow to simplify for corporations migration, management, protection and activation of data in Azure Stack, a public cloud of Microsoft Azure, a cloud of Azure Government Cloud and other cloud hybrid infrastructures. The Commvault Data Platform platform provides to the enterprises using Azure Stack cloud in the hybrid environment, management tools for the accelerated implementation of initiatives of digital transformation of business, helping them to increase flexibility and to reduce risks.

Commvault provided to global corporations, small business, the organizations of health care, the state agencies and service providers an opportunity to use Azure Stack together with Commvault as a uniform complex (Commvault appliance) in which all functions on data management from Commvault are implemented. Besides, using the software of Commvault it is possible to perform quickly data migration and to redistribute workloads between hybrid clouds of Azure Stack, a public cloud of Azure, other clouds, internal corporate and legacy infrastructures, claim in the company.

Using Commvault Data Platform of the enterprise can protect the data which are stored in private clouds of Azure Stack, to archive, move and conduct their indexation that simplifies data retrieval for e-Discovery, helps to fulfill the requirements of laws on personal data protection, to recover data after the attacks of programs racketeers and to avoid other incidents with data and also allows to use a business intelligence and other means of data analysis.

In the whole Commvault implemented following features for users of Azure Stack:

• Indexation of data from Microsoft OneDrive for Business: now users can index the documents OneDrive for Business which are stored in hybrid clouds of Azure Stack using the software of Commvault and to conduct search in documents. Search of content of OneDrive for Business can be combined with search of other heterogeneous data, including these Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint easily.
• The increased flexibility and additional options for clients: functionality of Commvault Software-as-a-Service on the basis of earlier implemented customer support of Commvault using Commvault Software software in the company from a public cloud of Azure, Azure Stack and the specialized Commvault Appliances systems.
• Compliance Apps application: the Commvault Compliance Apps application helps the companies to detect the personal identified information of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) with Azure Stack, to conduct monitoring and management of this information. Administrators can quickly service requests for data processing from end users and provide accomplishment of other requirements of the legislation for personal data protection including the laws General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• The mode of recovery Full Recovery for the Live Sync SQL databases: the solution Live Sync for Microsoft SQL Server of Commvault automatically replicates the changes recorded at backup of the productive SQL database working in a private cloud of Azure Stack on other SQL Server after end of each task of backup without additional load of the productive server.
• Possibility of security blanket and recovery of virtual machines (VM) for IaaS: using the solution Commvault the enterprise can protect and recover completely all virtual machines turned in Azure Stack on the same or other Azure Stack.
• Granular recovery of virtual machines at the level of files, objects/attributes Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Active Directory: the solution Commvault simplifies recovery of files and folders of virtual machines.
• Protection of applications: Commvault can provide additional protection, in addition to backup and recovery of virtual machines, using more than 30 developed Commvault of plug-in add-on modules for data protection of applications, databases and file systems.
• Migration on Azure Stack: the plug-in add-on modules developed by Commvault for applications and the file system simplify data migration of the companies on Azure Stack.
• Flexible multilevel storage: simplifies and improves expense efficiency at data movement between private clouds of Azure Stack and Azure Hot, Cool and Archive Blob Storage.
• Single solution for data management: Azure Stack can be used as Data Management Appliance for solutions of Commvault.
• Multi-tenancy and self-service: users can seamlessly and it is safe to manage data in the hybrid Azure Stack environment.
• All accessibility for e-discovery: as well as in all other solutions of Commvault, data which are stored in Azure Stack will be easily available to service of requests of e-discovery and Cognitive Services.

Commvault software, certified for use in Azure, allows the enterprises to manage data which are both in the company, and in a cloud, using the single platform implementing the centralized policy of data management, including access to all opportunities of backup, recovery, managements and e-discovery/poiska emphasized in the company. Software of Commvault provides application of all opportunities of Azure Stack as works in a stack in the Native mode, including in stacks with multi-tenance. Work in the "native" mode, but not guest allows to use fully functionality of Azure Stack and also integration with a public cloud of Azure, emphasized in Commvault.

The listed updates of functionality of the solution Commvault for Azure Stack are already available to users.

Joint solution Commvault and Infinidat

The Commvault company and the supplier of scalable petabyte solutions for data storage of Infinidat in March, 2018 announced the strategic partnership providing release of the joint solution for protection of primary and secondary data expected large enterprises. Commvault and Infinidat intend together to help the enterprises to provide data protection, being in the company and in a cloud that will help to increase dynamism of business and reliability of IT infrastructure of the customer.

Thanks to the partnership agreement Infinidat and its resellers will be able to sell and implement Commvault Software at customers of the corporate level who face the problems caused by the exponential growth of data volumes and also which are constantly growing at risks of information security.

The Commvault platform for work with data helps the companies to solve the listed above problems, providing data protection from different threats and their fast recovery. Commvault Data Platform also provides flexible management with the data of the customer distributed between his data center, a cloud and mobile devices.

In turn, one InfiniBox system is capable to provide storage from above the 5th petabyte of data. Unlike traditional solutions of a corporate class in it for performance improvement of storage instead of expensive the flash memory is used the software which using algorithms of machine learning increases high-speed performance and reliability of the system constructed based on conventional hardware components to a maximum.

The combination of Commvault Software and storage systems of Infinidat will provide to customers completely integrated solution for data security which will protect business and critical applications of large enterprises and will provide accomplishment of strict requirements of SLA to performance of backup and recovery.

Besides, the partnership agreement of Commvault with Infinidat will give to customers an opportunity to install the solution Commvault IntelliSnap which will provide effective use of "instant pictures" for protection and data recovery together with the solution InfiniSnap of Infinidat, implementing instant data recovery without decline in production of applications. InfiniSnap is completely integrated with Commvault IntelliSnap technology for support of expanded control functions by "instant pictures" and consistency of backup copies of the application that reduces storage expenses of secondary data, emphasized in Commvault.

As a part of HPE GreenLake Backup

On February 8, 2018 the Commvault company announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) selected the Commvault Data Platform platform for use from the solution HPE GreenLake Backup. The software of Commvault Software will be delivered preinstalled on servers, storage systems and network equipment of HPE and, as expected, will provide to customers data protection and reliability of a corporate class during all lifecycle of infrastructure of backup. Read more here.

2017

Compliance to requirements of GDPR

On May 25, 2017 the Commvault company announced readiness of the Commvault Data Platform platform for indexation of content of all data sources with which it interacts, providing to the organizations the uniform tool for search of personal data in unstructured data which can be in backup copies, in archive, on main systems of storage of the enterprise, in private and public clouds, on the client devices protected by means of Endpoint Protection.

The companies need to begin preparation for entry into force of the law of the European Union "General Provisions on Data Protection" (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR), otherwise in 12 months they risk to become the first of the organizations fined for violation of requirements of this law. Compliance to requirements at the level of corporation – one of the main barriers on the way of fulfillment of requirements of GDPR as many organizations still did not implement the corresponding processes and technologies. As the companies even more often face the attacks using such viruses as ransomware (racketeers) and leakware (blackmailers), the absence at them the reliable platform of data management can lead to considerable penalties.

The European countries prepare for the entry of GDPR in force long ago, but actually active work on ensuring compliance to requirements of this law is conducted only by some organizations therefore now very responsible moment came. Certainly, nobody wants that his company in June, 2018 paid one of the first a real penalty for violation of this law. Still there is enough time in order that the organizations managed to provide compliance to requirements of the legislation till May, 2018, but they should act quickly and make strategically reasoned decisions, and Commvault is ready to come to the rescue of them. N. Robert N. Robert Hammer, chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive of Commvault

Creating the Commvault Data Platform platform, developers paid attention to security that, according to them, provides to the organizations an opportunity to identify cyber attacks, to eliminate their effects and to quickly recover work.

Simplification of data management in a cloud

On January 24, 2017 the Commvault company announced start of reference architecture for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that it will allow clients to simplify protection and data management using previously optimized, developed, valid software.

Reference architecture, available directly through Commvault and AWS Marketplace, give to the enterprises the management - as Commvault Data Platform can help them to optimize use of cloud storage of AWS Cloud for backup, archiving and recovery.

The reference architecture confirmed to Commvault on AWS will allow to simplify in addition hybrid protection of infrastructure data for clients of the company at simultaneous cost reduction, increase in efficiency and acceleration of software deployment of Commvault with AWS Cloud, for backup, archiving and recovery.

AWS and Commvault will incur joint liabilities on assistance to the enterprises for inclusion of cloud data storage in the strategy of data protection. Start of these new certified reference architecture of Commvault will provide further simplification of use of the platform of data of Commvault at cloud storage on AWS Cloud for our general clients, helping them to accelerate project implementation on data protection which reduce operating and capital expenditure, providing at the same time reliable, secure and quick access to business of information. Terry Wise, vice president of the World partner ecosystem of Amazon Web Services, Inc

The unified Commvault platform simplifies a system data protection and gives opportunities for data management:

• The possibilities of indexation and cataloguing simplifying search, processing and accelerating data recovery.
• Automation according to the approved procedure of movement of data arrays between local infrastructures and AWS, facilitating to users storage data in Amazon S3, Amazon S3-IA or Amazon Glacier or allowing to move the whole data arrays directly to structures of Amazon EC2.
• Support of import of petabyte data arrays using AWS Snowball service and drive shipping technology.

Commvault gives to the enterprises the chance to apply policy of storage and data recovery in a cloud of AWS, as for the data which are stored on local disks or on other devices. Expansion of opportunities Commvault on security, enciphering and deduplication on the cloud storage of AWS, allows the enterprises to reduce costs and to eliminate need of creation of difficult scenarios, at the same time providing single solution from "began up to the end". These solutions can be used for management of all the data, in any place and in any format.

2016

Support of the Red Hat Virtualization 4 platform on Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Together with already existing support of Red Hat Virtualization 3.6, expansion of integration and support of Commvault on Red Hat Virtualization 4 gives the increased flexibility in data management and workloads on a broad spectrum of traditional, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Using Commvault Data Platform it is possible to set up single solution to protect data and workloads at a number of hypervisors, including Red Hat Virtualization VMware Microsoft Hyper-V Citrix Xen, and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). Also the solutions Commvault help to protect workloads at migration from hypervisors in public clouds, such Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon AWS.

Support of Red Hat Virtualization includes following features and advantages:

• It is integrated with Red Hat Virtualization Manager and uses native API for all necessary functionality.
• Offers an opportunity of creation of complete backup copies of images of VM without interruption of the started workloads.
• Security actions are based on sets of installations and use the mechanism of automatic recognition which independently selects the virtual machines and a set of installations corresponding each other.
• Security actions automatically and dynamically distribute load of KVM servers. Backup proxies (which are VM too) can be scaled with bigger ease and independently select flows for processing of VM with bigger efficiency.
• Deduplication on client side allows users to reduce data transmission in library of backup Commvault, allowing to accelerate process of backup and to reduce influence on network and amounts of the storage necessary for data backup of virtual machines which can be saved on a disk, the magnetic tape, or in cloud library.
• The methodology of "hot adding" (hot-add methodology) of Commvault for protection of virtual machines simplifies processes of deployment and horizontal scaling for clients, at the same time leaving a possibility of the central administration using the single operational console.
• There is no tight restriction on the size of backup copies, number of virtual machines, or the size of virtual machines which can be rezervno copied.

Red Hat Virtualization 4 is provided as the separate offer, as the offer and as a part of the complete solution Red Hat Cloud Suite integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The current clients can update to the version of Red Hat Virtualization 4 on Red Hat Customer Portal. Support of Commvault is already available to Red Hat Virtualization 3.6. Support for version 4 is planned in the second quarter 2017 taxable year.

Commvault is compatible to Cisco HyperFlex

On July 13, 2016 the press service of Commvault company, announcing start of architecture, joint with Cisco, announced solution compatibility of Commvault with Cisco HyperFlex.

Cisco HyperFlex is the hyper-converged system connecting calculations, storage and network capabilities to the platform easy in use built on the platform of infrastructure Cisco UCS. Commvault, being integrated into Cisco HyperFlex provides data protection and recovery of the workloads and applications working in physical, virtualized and cloud infrastructures on Cisco HyperFlex.

By means of this integration the product receives additional properties:

• the increased automation. Commvault detects and classifies new virtual machines, and applies to them the corresponding rules of backup. Commvault can also automatically determine idle virtual machines and it is safe to archive them, releasing production resources. The built-in engine of worker threads gives the additional automation configured by the administrator.
• scaling. Commvault automatically distributes loads of multiple servers of backup, giving an opportunity of horizontal scaling for the growing data centers. End-to-end deduplication reduces network traffic and the sizes of storage so managed data remain compact and effective.
• specialized support of virtual machines. At integration of Commvault with VMWare of API, owners of storages can avoid installation of agents in each of virtual machines, reducing overheads. By means of backup rule sets which can be exposed on the basis of VMware metadata and snap-in for VMSphere the complexity of management decreases. Options of recovery of all virtual machine or separate files preserve time and give flexible opportunities.

Commvault helps the clients using Cisco UCS to protect data with the help of broad support of different corporate applications. These provide to integration backup taking into account the application and recovery which simpler and safe because it is automated and standardized, saving from scripts and manual processes. For the main arrays of storage with hardware opportunities of instant pictures, such as in the converged infrastructure stacks of Cisco, the Commvault IntelliSnap technology can be used for acceleration of backup and recovery so clients have protection for each application, with the subsequent data movement in Cisco HyperFlex and UCS for storage.

Support of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snowball is announced

On April 26, 2016 the Commvault company announced support of Amazon Web Services(AWS) Snowball — the protected solution for transportation of large volumes of data in a cloud of AWS and from it. AWS Snowball together with the software of Commvault allows to perform process of migration of workloads of any sizes in Amazon AWS Cloud quicker, more effectively and more safely, than using traditional Internet connections.

Updating expands support and integration with AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon of EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon S3 - Infrequent Access (Standard – IAS), and Amazon Glacier.

Supporting AWS Snowball, Commvault simplifies and reduces the price of processes of migration, replication and recovery in AWS Cloud for the organizations with large volumes of data — Bill Vass, the vice president of Engineering, Amazon Web Services Inc says. — We consider that clients should have different opportunities for data migration in a cloud using AWS Snowball as the new alternative model simplifying processes of transition to a cloud and data transfer for the purpose of increase in the overall operational efficiency, mobility and speed. And Commvault separates our understanding.

We accelerate migration of our clients in AWS Cloud and we delete obstacles in this way. It is a basis of our value proposition — Sabrinath Rao, the head of Cloud Business Unit, Commvault says.

Commvault Data Platform 11

On March 15, 2016 Commvault provided possibilities of integrated solutions of Commvault Data Platform. They are focused on the help to the organizations in management of "Big Data".

The technology is released within the eleventh release of the software Commvault and helps to manage information in environments Hadoop, Greenplum and Global Partition File Systems (GPFS).

Solutions on the Commvault Data Platform platform answer calls which the organizations beginning to work with "Big Data" face:

• the increased transparency level,
• integration into widespread instruments of work with Big Data, including Hadoop, Greenplum and GPFS,

help the organizations to construct architecture of "Big Data" and give understanding of how an environment can be protected and recovered - entirely, separate nodes, components and/or data arrays.

Using the software of Commvault for management of these Wednesdays, users can browse all system, increase performance, simplify process of work with data and control costs.

The companies and the organizations practically in all industries increase the presence at a Big Data segment, put considerable resources to receive benefit from huge data volumes. However, often they do it, without applying reliable procedures of data protection and recovery after failures. In many cases, the exponential growth of infrastructures of "Big Data" overtakes capability of corporate IT-systems to self-government and selfrecovery. Now the companies and the organizations can profitable use all power of a portfolio of the software of Commvault and apply the best methods of data management to such environments as Hadoop, Greenplum and GPFS. These innovations give to our clients powerful benefits, and open for Commvault new opportunities in the growing Big Data market. Don Foster, the senior director on management of solutions in Commvault

The upgraded portfolio of integrated solutions of Commvault is available to users.

2015

Announcement of Commvault Data Platform

On October 22, 2015 the Commvault company announced a packet of the products Commvault Data Platform. Software gives to the enterprises the unprecedented level of openness, providing choice width in terms of infrastructure, platforms, providers of computing powers and storage.

Representation of Commvault Data Platform (2015)

Now clients can act more flexibly when choosing the producer of program and hardware components, reduce costs for support of outdated solutions, look for ways of transition to more modern technologies.

Possibilities of Commvault will allow customers to abstract as much as possible from routine transactions and to focus on strategic development of IT.

The solution portfolio from Commvault includes the broad range of innovations in areas:

Open approach, open standards: Software of Commvault works in the traditional localized, hyper convergent environments and also in the conditions of hybrid and public clouds, providing protection, storage, access and compliance to corporate and state standards.

Readiness for unpredictable changes: the uniform, unified approach to data management levels risks at implementation of new technologies, and helps the companies to overcome uncertainty of IT.

Independence of suppliers: Commvault removes dependence on producers of storage systems and data processing as supports all modern technologies and protocols, and in fact provides to clients the new standard in the choice of equipment rooms and software tools.

Moving to a cloud: Commvault is the bridge from the outdate centralized technologies to an intermediate hybrid cloud and further if necessary to full use of public cloud resources, simplifies direct data transfer in/from a cloud, doing possible, including, automatic disaster recovery, completely transfers ultimate loads to a cloud, saving an opportunity to conform to standards of regulators and corporate SLA, guarantees data security at their movement and storage in a cloud using advanced authentication protocols and contents supervision.

Determines a concept of archiving by new: will transform archives to information source for daily use, using familiar user interfaces (a file manager, Outlook, mobile applications, etc.), connecting it under specific protocols to applications (REST/FS/APIs)

Support of storage systems: on disk and the flash arrays gives to a system capability in the field of management of instant pictures and replication more freedom in the choice of DWH.

Management during all lifecycle of data: methodologies of Commvault are intended for data at any stage of their lifecycle from the creation moment until obsolescence.

The built-in system of data security at all stages: security is completely integrated into processes of management of data, with monitoring, the reporting and compliance to standards at each stage

Full context search: a search capability according to all available information (to current and previous versions of the same content), on the structured and unstructured data.

The software and services of the next generation from Commvault were already available to in advance subscribed clients in regulated release, and in December they will appear in the general access. Since this software version, Commvault reported, the company passes to continuous innovation model of development. Options, functionality and product capabilities will be are given on a regular and continuous basis.

Data Platform

The Commvault company announced in the fall of 2015 generation of the solutions designed to help clients to cope with the increasing calls in the field of data management in the conditions of fast changing IT market. Data Platform allows to reduce backup windows, in fact passing to "continuous" data protection and also to reduce recovery time at the expense of the new automated protocols of disaster tolerance. All resources of storage also if necessary can be controlled by means of Commvault completely.

The packet of the products Commvault Data Platform gives to the enterprises the high level of openness, providing choice width in terms of infrastructure, platforms, providers of computing powers and storage. The company declared that now clients can be more flexible when choosing the producer of program and hardware components, reduce costs for maintenance of outdated solutions and also find ways of transition to more modern technologies.

This solution portfolio from Commvault includes the range of innovations in such area as open approach, open standards: Software of Commvault works in the traditional localized, hyper convergent environments and also in the conditions of hybrid and public clouds, providing protection, storage, access and compliance to corporate and state standards. Besides, he offers readiness for unpredictable changes: the unified approach to data management levels risks at implementation of new technologies and helps the companies to overcome uncertainty of IT; independence of suppliers: Commvault completely removes dependence on producers of storage systems and data processing as supports all modern technologies and protocols, and in fact provides to clients the new standard in the choice of equipment rooms and software tools.

"The Commvault Data Platform platform allows our clients to cope better with sharp changes, whether it be data transfer on a cloud, data management in a cloud, providing secure access to data, adaptation of new technologies instead of the outdated systems, transition from the closed systems to open, or a guarantee of the thought-over strategy of data management in the middle of unprecedented consolidation which happens in the data protection market", - Robert noted the Hummer, the chairman, the president and the CEO of Commvault