Partner Quotes

“Many businesses today have storage infrastructure that is bursting at the seams, with administrators overwhelmed by rapid data growth, complex compliance requirements and often inadequate software tools. CommVault Simpana 9 can help by providing an integrated data management solution that now features the ability to natively connect to cloud-based storage. Enterprise Customers can use CommVault software to easily move their archival and backup data onto AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service, which provides a cloud-based approach for efficient offsite storage.” – Chris Costello, AVP Managed Hosting & Cloud Services, AT&T.

“The continuing evolution of the data center from physical to virtual environments, poses challenges for customers and vendors, especially with traditional infrastructure solutions. CommVault Simpana 9 software now provides even greater flexibility to customers who want to extend the benefits of CommVault’s singular approach to information management. By combining Simpana 9 with BlueArc’s high-performance file system, customers can dramatically simplify network storage and data management in order to usher in a new era of data center modernization.” – Ravi Chalaka, Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing at BlueArc.

“CommVault’s Simpana software platform plays a key role in Bull’s storage integration business, providing our customers with a modern and integrated approach to protecting, optimizing and managing their data assets in an ever more demanding operational environment. With Simpana 9 software, CommVault is introducing major enhancements, including source-side deduplication and tremendous virtualization scalability that help drive cost reduction and meet the challenge of managing highly virtualized environments.” – Eric Desnos, Director of Bull’s StoreWay Storage Division.

“By combining CommVault Simpana software with Citrix XenServer, enterprises can achieve improved data protection while simplifying the management of rapidly growing virtualized environments. CommVault’s singular approach to information and data management is well suited for providing the scalable disaster recovery and business continuity options our customers expect, and we will continue to work with CommVault to provide customers an end-to-end solution that addresses challenges in virtual environments.” – N. Louis Shipley, Group Vice President and General Manager, Citrix XenServer Product Group, Citrix.

“As enterprises continue to implement virtual data centers and cloud services, they are adopting scalable, automated data management solutions to drive efficiency and reduce cost while protecting against downtime. The release of Simpana 9 dramatically speeds access to data and recovery from any issue. We’re pleased to team with CommVault to deliver end-to-end storage solutions that expand our customers’ enterprise cloud capabilities and accelerate their ability to provision, manage and protect hundreds of virtual machines in minutes throughout their virtual infrastructure.” – Bruce Kornfeld, VP of Business Development and Alliances, Compellent.

“We are big advocates of CommVault’s Simpana software. CommVault’s single-platform, modern approach to data management is exactly what’s needed to address our customers’ rapidly evolving business demands. In particular, Simpana 9’s third-generation deduplication enables us to integrate global deduplication capabilities with all leading storage platforms, which allows us to customize solutions to meet particular technology requirements while reinforcing our role as a trusted advisor.” – Bill Crahen, Chief Architect at Core BTS.

“Dell continues to work with CommVault to offer integrated solutions for data management that are easy to use and allow customers to manage their growing data environments. The addition of the Simpana source-side deduplication capabilities and extended virtualization support offers Dell’s PowerVault DL Appliance users a truly modern approach to data management. As a result, customers can scale their virtualization environments while also using CommVault’s archiving, deduplication and data protection technology. Additionally, Simpana SnapProtect technology for Dell EqualLogic allows customers to perform near-zero impact backups on large numbers of virtual machines in minutes, and helps ensure fast restores of virtual machine images, volumes and files.” – Brett Roscoe, Worldwide Marketing Lead, Dell Enterprise Storage Group.

“More than ever before, immediate, reliable access to critical business information is a key driver of enterprise IT strategy and investment, as businesses look to maximize the value of their data and minimize the risk of losing it. CommVault’s next generation of its Simpana software helps ensure businesses can do just that, and when combined with Isilon scale-out storage, enterprises everywhere can create a simple, yet powerful, end-to-end data management and protection strategy.” – Sam Grocott, Vice President of Marketing, Isilon.

“CIOs and their IT departments are continually challenged to lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of storing and managing their information. The integration of Simpana 9 with Iron Mountain’s cloud archiving provides CommVault customers with enterprise-class security and reliability as well as functionality for accessing and using their data. CommVault customers can now realize the cost-savings of the cloud, while maintaining the same level of security, access and usability of on-premises storage.” – Todd Koopersmith, Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Iron Mountain, The Information Management Company.

“LSI is excited about the integration of CommVault’s Simpana 9 SnapProtect feature with the snapshot capabilities of OEM-branded storage systems based on LSI Engenio^® technology. Automated and persistent LSI array-based snapshots can now be managed for applications such as Exchange, Oracle and SQL as well as Windows, Linux and Unix file systems. These snapshots enable rapid data recovery and, when coupled with Simpana software, automatically tier data to lower cost storage such as tape or secondary storage pools.” – Brett Pemble, Vice President of Product Planning and Marketing, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Corporation.

“McAfee and CommVault share a common vision of providing a centrally managed data protection solution that addresses both the security and data management concerns of enterprises today. The release of Simpana 9 demonstrates CommVault’s commitment to modernizing data management with a truly holistic approach that ensures lower costs, reduced risk and greater efficiency for a more agile and responsive IT infrastructure.” – David Scholtz, Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances at McAfee.

“Simpana 9.0 makes it even easier for Mezeo Ready Premier Hosting Providers to deliver industry leading cloud storage services with advanced features such as source side de-dupe for faster backups. In business terms, this means it will be even easier and faster to backup data into a Mezeo enabled storage cloud, which is an important for Mezeo Ready service providers and their customers.” – Steve Lesem, President and CEO of Mezeo Software.

“Organizations looking to reduce storage costs while simplifying information management between on-premise infrastructure and the cloud need look no further than Simpana 9 and Nirvanix cloud storage. The combined solution offers a way for organizations to achieve the transformation in the data center necessary to manage explosive amounts of data with continued resource constraints and dwindling data center space.” – Geoff Tudor, Cofounder and SVP of Strategy and Business Development of Nirvanix.

“Within our Data Management Practice, ProSys strives to deliver solutions that lower our customers’ IT footprint for managing and maintaining their data while ensuring required redundancy and security. CommVault’s Simpana 9 software enables us to leverage the singular platform and advanced functionality to further reduce our clients’ physical storage requirements. With universal deduplication, for example, we can offer clients with distributed environments a robust solution for protecting their remote offices while overcoming WAN limitations.” – Donnie Clemmons, ProSys Regional Vice President.

“CommVault Simpana 9 enables us to offer our clients one fully integrated platform that can handle all their data management needs across physical and virtual environments. This is especially important to us as we work closely with our customers to solve the many data management challenges that arise when introducing virtualization into legacy environments. With Simpana software, we can capitalize on the high-growth virtualization trend while removing obstacles to moving and managing data between the worlds of physical, virtual and cloud computing.” – Paul Kerr, CEO for Scalar.