CommVault has reached out to partner with Group Logic as part of an effort to make Apple Macintosh systems a full-fledged member of the CommVault archiving ecosystem.

According to Simon Taylor, senior director for the Information Access Management Group at CommVault, Macintosh systems tend to lock up when archiving data on Windows or Unix servers due to the way Macintosh systems need to access data.

By working with Group Logic, CommVault has overcome those limitations by allowing Macintosh systems to use Group Logic's Archive Connect software to access data stored using CommVault's Simpana archiving software using the same pointers to file that users would normally see on a Macintosh.