CommVault moves deduplication to the source with Simpana 9

Source: Computerworld

Author: Lucas Mearian

CommVault today released the latest version of its flashship backup software product, Simpana 9, which adds the ability to perform deduplication at the server and full integration with VMware and HyperV virtualization hypervisors.

The company also rolled out a "Fast Track" migration capability that can replicate preexisting policies and backup job schedules from IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and Symantec NetBackup environments, to allow migrating of clients over to Simpana 9 more easily.

"We're going to go after Symantec and IBM really hard," said Mike Marchi, vice president of product marketing at CommVault.

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