Simpana 8 Media Kit

Press Release

January 26, 2009
CommVault Introduces Simpana 8 Next-Generation Data Management Software with Industry's First Embedded Global Deduplication

Media Coverage

January 26, 2009
CommVault Embeds De-Dupe in Simpana 8

January 26, 2009
CommVault Adds Deduplication to Data Management Software

January 26, 2009
CommVault upgrades Simpana management software

January 26, 2009
CommVault first to de-dupe to tape

January 26, 2009
CommVault debuts data management software

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"Virtual system data protection has evolved to include expected features, including serverless VM image backups that offer granular file or database object recovery, deduplication, and the use of array-level snapshots and asynchronous replication," said Chris Wolf, senior analyst with Burton Group. "Enterprises should not be expected to accept using a myriad of point solutions to solve today's enterprise data protection riddle when highly integrated solutions that offer a unified management stack are currently available."

"Today's release of CommVault Simpana 8 continues to reflect CommVault's commitment to deliver rich-featured enterprise data protection and management using a single product with multiple application modules," said Jerome Wendt, lead analyst and president, DCIG LLC. "It is Simpana 8 software's new global block-based data deduplication feature and new ability to deduplicate data stored to tape that is likely to raise a lot of excitement. Making these features integral to Simpana 8, CommVault does more than just give enterprises another deduplication option or simply lower tape costs. Instead it gives organizations new reason to ponder their longer term data protection and deduplication strategies."

"More than ever, businesses are struggling to keep up with the growing amount of data that needs to be managed and retained for compliance and business needs," said Marc Staimer, president and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting. "A solution like Simpana 8 software that targets the entire data protection problem, offers economies that point solutions cannot provide. The integrated approach provides users the flexibility to only purchase what they require right now then buy additional capabilities in the future as their needs evolve."

"Containing costs and maximizing operational efficiencies are top priorities for organizations today. Information spanning multiple storage tiers and in distributed environments create layers of inefficiency and complexity. Consolidation, especially in a data management solution, creates economies of scale, eases management and lowers operational risk, said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "CommVault Simpana 8 software, with its single platform approach is a great example of a solution meeting the distributed data demands while reducing operational overhead. Further, and most impressive, is its native, built-in data deduplication feature which optimizes storage capacity across storage silos for all of the data copies made for recovery and long-term preservation purposes."

"Now over a $1 billion dollar market, IDC expects the archiving software market to grow to $2.8 billion dollar market by 2012, representing a 21% CAGR. This growth stems from an enterprise need to search and discover electronically stored information, manage its retention, preservation and ultimately destruction," said Laura Dubois, research director, IDC Storage Software. "CommVault's content organization feature aids in rapid discovery of information across a wide range of content sources, and across any tier of storage in the enterprise. It also allows specific retention and security policies to be defined in one application that spans different data types and repositories. This reduces the business risk associated with compliance and mimimizes costly legal discovery."

"In today's economic climate, it's not surprising that IT organizations are stretched further than ever before. Companies are looking for ways to maximize their investments and get immediate payback on any future spending," said Deni Connor, principal analyst, Storage Strategies NOW. "Put simply, the introduction of CommVault Simpana 8 helps companies align their data and information management efforts with their business needs. They can protect data, access it, then recover it when and where they need it no matter where it resides, without adding complexity."

"Our research suggests that though the economy is down, data growth is not. Indeed, the challenge of juggling the many aspects of data management   protection, availability, recovery and discovery   is thrown into even sharper relief in tough times as the potential costs of data loss, application downtime and non-compliance are multiplied. In such times it's paramount that organizations equip themselves with the tools to deal with these tasks cost-effectively and efficiently. As such, an integrated software platform that can handle this multiplicity of demands, such as CommVault's, has never been more relevant," said Simon Robinson, research director, Storage, The 451 Group.

"With the release of Simpana 8, CommVault is the only data management vendor who offers fundamental eDiscovery capabilities built into the data management platform," said Steven d'Alencon, Chief Marketing Officer, CaseCentral. "CaseCentral and CommVault joint eDiscovery customers gain tremendous efficiencies from these technological advances, creating an integrated end-to-end eDiscovery capability which eliminates both cost and risk, while providing a multi-case, measurable platform for eDiscovery."

"At Dell we continue to find ways to simplify IT. Our latest efforts are focused on delivering cost-effective full-service backup and recovery solutions for our customers," said Praveen Asthana, Director of Global Storage Marketing, Dell Product Group. "Dell works closely with CommVault on integrated solutions including the industry's first and only backup to disk appliance the Dell DL2000, part of Dell's new TierDisk family. With the addition of the CommVault Simpana 8 block-based de-duplication to our product, our joint customers will be able to dramatically reduce cost and management when deploying data protection and recovery solutions."

"Hitachi Data Systems' industry-leading storage systems and CommVault's sophisticated data protection software enable enterprise customers to securely store, manage and recover their business-critical data, and help ensure resources are focused on the business rather than managing storage environments," said Jim Beckman, vice president, Business Development and Alliances, Hitachi Data Systems. "With Hitachi Data Protection Suite, our customers have a way to easily deploy and manage corporate data while having consistency, security and high levels of reliability cost-effectively."

"Customers demand solutions that help mitigate their business risk while addressing both their data protection and security needs," said Joe Gottlieb, vice president, corporate strategy and technology alliances, McAfee, Inc. "With the integration of CommVault Simpana 8 software and McAfee security solutions, joint customers will gain a superior data and security management approach that is easy to use and manage and cost-effective to deploy."

"Our customers face an increasingly complex set of problems," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing for NetApp. "They need a more efficient, more dynamic data management framework. With NetApp® and Simpana 8, they've got one. Our unified storage infrastructure integrates tightly with CommVault's groundbreaking software platform to make data more available and accessible across its lifecycle–while helping reduce costs across the data management spectrum. This tight integration makes NetApp® one of the best storage choices with CommVault Simpana 8.0."

"Enterprises continue to reap the benefits of reducing operational costs and complexity in their datacenters by implementing VMware virtualization solutions to consolidate their servers, storage and IT operations," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. "CommVault Simpana 8 leverages VMware virtualization for improved unified data management across both virtual and physical environments from a single console. Together, VMware and CommVault are helping customers transform their IT infrastructures to increase productivity and better respond to changing business needs."

When budgets are being reduced, but competition in the market is increasing, companies need to ensure that they are working with the optimum technologies available to keep systems running smoothly at all times – the CommVault Simpana 8 Suite gives users this confidence.

An exciting new development in this version is Laptop and Desktop protection. The new backup agent is optimised for low bandwidth scenarios, VPN style access and simple deployment – perfect for the remote workforce that we're seeing more of as flexible working increases. Version 8 also brings with it a new variant of CDR, CommVault's already successful replication solution, by introducing a "Remote Backup" mode which allows for bandwidth optimisation and scheduled data transfers.

In addition, the new block level de-duplication technology on disk, combined with CommVault's new unique tape de-duplication technology, will provide customers with the most cost efficient de-duplication in the industry. We know this is important to our customers and are looking forward to working with them to overcome their storage challenges in 2009, by introducing them to the CommVault Simpana 8 offering," said Mark Walker, director, Storage Products Business Group, Avnet Technology Solutions Inc.

CommVault is constantly pushing the envelope with its technology to solve the challenges faced by our customers in data and information management. This latest release of the award-winning Simpana software suite will open up new avenues of business opportunity for us, while enabling us to better serve the needs of our customers. Congratulations to the team at CommVault for the achievement," said Byju Pillai, president & CEO, Inflow Technologies.

Not only does the CommVault Simpana 8 software suite offer a cost effective option for back up and recovery but it has also now strengthened its focus on virtualisation with the addition of an enhanced Virtual Server Agent, which is great news for our partners and their end customers. This enhancement enables fast backups of VMWare servers, MS Hyper-V and MS Virtual Server whilst also allowing granular, single file recoveries.

This feature, combined with the critical reporting elements already included in the Simpana Suite, ensures that all back up and recovery processes can continue to be managed effectively from a central point. In turn, this enables IT departments to allocate internal resources more efficiently, which is something all businesses are looking to get maximum benefits from in the year ahead.

Coupled with CommVault's excellent level of support across Europe, making the solution a very compelling proposition to take to our customers, I am confident that Simpana 8 will be well received by those looking for a robust data management solution without the hefty price tag," said Harmut Fielder, group managing director, Magirus.

"We've made CommVault Simpana our value-added business cluster group's top priority because it's such an amazing product. It features a unique integrated data management solution, which provides our customers with full support and makes CommVault even more competitive in the data management market. We believe that the newly launched Simpana 8.0 will bring the data management market to the next level," said Gu Ping, senior vice president of ECS Technology (China) Ltd.

Carmarthenshire County Council (CCC) is the administrative authority for the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. CCC continues to expand to meet the needs of its growing community and provides a wide range of services including education, planning, transport, streetscene, social services and public safety, all under the control of the elected county councilor. As the County continues to generate and retain increasing amounts of digital data especially to comply with Data Protection principles under the Data Protection Act, the County turned to CommVault to manage and protect all the data it created.

"Managing all the data the County produces was a challenge. We needed a cost-effective solution that would allow us to maintain 24/7 availability and would minimize our ever shrinking backup window," said Sarita Bennett, IT Policy and Projects Manager at Carmarthenshire County Council. "As the amount of managed data continued to grow, we turned to CommVault Simpana software to make our lives easier. Since deploying Simpana software, our backup success rate has been nearly perfect. Now, with CommVault Simpana 8, we've been particularly impressed with Snap Backup which helps to nearly eliminate our ever shrinking backup window.

Keeping pace with the growth of our digital data, managing it cost-effectively while keeping our infrastructure costs down, has been a challenge. We rely on CommVault Simpana software to help manage data Ocean Spray produces across our enterprise. We're particularly excited about the new advancements in Simpana 8 and especially the deduplication feature, and believe CommVault Simpana software continues to be the best choice for helping address our data and information challenges not only for today but well into the future," said John Goodfellow, Manager of Systems and Operations, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, ORIX USA Corporation is a diversified financial services company with more than $4 billion in assets. The company provides services for virtually all aspects of mid-market and enterprise commercial and real estate financing. A long-standing CommVault customer, ORIX manages over 15TB of digital data and needed a way to manage and protect a growing amount of data across several virtual machines.

"We are thrilled with CommVault's ability to address our growing digital management and server virtualization needs," said Layne Eckert, Senior Systems Engineer at ORIX USA Corporation. "CommVault Simpana software makes our life easier as it helps to simplify management of data on our virtual servers. Now with Simpana 8, we'll have an easy and cost-effective way to handle our VMware backups and recovery."

Rooms to Go is America's #1 independent furniture retailer with the nation's largest furniture inventory. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, the company offers stylish furniture at everyday low prices, original room packages, superior service and fast delivery. To accommodate the growing volume of digital data generated by annual sales and its expansion across the US, the company turned to CommVault Simpana software to backup and protect its U2 databases.

"Rooms to Go relies on information availability and recoverability. Without it, we would not be able to maintain our service levels and it could be the difference between staying in business or not," said Jason Hall, Director of IT Systems at Rooms to Go. "Prior to implementing CommVault Simpana software, we used to experience inconsistent backups. Now, since implementing CommVault Simpana, we have an easy-to-use, unified management console from one single platform that made us more confident and put our mind's at ease knowing we did not have to worry at all about backing up our digital data. Now with Simpana 8 and embedded global deduplication, we've seen more than 50 percent reduction in storage at a fraction of the price of a hardware or appliance-based deduplication solution. Simpana 8 is the ideal platform to handle all our data and information requirements beyond backup and recovery."

Seyfarth Shaw LLP is a growing, full service law firm organized into four departments – Business Services, Employee Benefits, Labor & Employment, and Litigation serving clients throughout the globe. Backing up more than 40 TBs of data a week, Seyfarth Shaw found CommVault to be a cost-effective solution to help manage its remote offices and increase operational efficiencies from a centralized location.

"Managing all the data across remote offices is a challenge, so we were looking for a cost-effective solution that would allow us to centrally manage all of our data with minimal administrative overhead and complexity. CommVault Simpana software has allowed us to introduce a comprehensive disk-to-disk-to-tape D/R solution. We have also been able to slash our backup window by 50%," said Hector Feliciano, Manager of IT Technical Operations at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. "We're also really excited about Simpana 8. We've been impressed with a number of new features including how we'll be able to take our Exchange database, back it up, and restore it to another location. Also, we can use the new advanced data mining feature to mine through that database, restore an individual e-mail, or a user's entire mailbox into a PST. Simpana software is the ideal platform to handle all our growing data and information management needs."