CommVault is the only independent software and service company focused exclusively on data management. We provide companies with a better way to manage data growth, lower costs, and reduce risk by using a single, unified architecture. This flexible platform approach enables our Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Resource Management and Search software to work seamlessly together, utilizing a set of common functions. The result is singular efficiency, performance, reliability, and control over enterprise data environments.

Our History
In early 2000, we launched CommVault Galaxy® for backup and recovery, a storage industry award winner. In the years since, CommVault has forged numerous alliances with top software application and hardware vendors, such as Dell, EMC, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, Microsoft, Network Appliance, Novell and Oracle, to enhance capabilities and to create the premiere suite of data management solutions. In 2002, CommVault launched the single-platform technology that provides the industry's only singular information management approach to storing, managing, and accessing data.

The Market Demand for Data Availability
CommVault's software is built upon an innovative architecture and a single underlying code base, or Common Technology Engine. This unique unified architecture sets CommVault apart from any other data management software company. Competitors offering similar applications built upon disparate software architectures are merely “integrating” point products never designed to work together Our architecture provides us with significant competitive advantages, including the industry's most granular and automated management of data, tiered classification of all data based on its user-defined value, and greater product reliability and ease of installation. In addition, we believe we have lower support and development costs and faster time to market for our new data management software applications.

CommVault software fully interoperates with a wide variety of operating systems, applications, network devices and protocols, storage arrays, storage formats, and tiered storage infrastructures. This gives our customers the flexibility to purchase the optimal hardware and software for their needs, regardless of vendor.

CommVault has established a worldwide multi-channel distribution network to sell our software, support and services to large global enterprises, small and medium sized businesses, and government agencies, both directly through our sales force and indirectly through our global network of value. CommVault has licensed data management software to many Global 2000 companies, including customers across many industries.

CommVault's Data Management Vision
As CommVault began developing its suite of high-performance, enterprise solutions, the company recognized that most data and storage management products currently on the market were designed well over a decade ago. System administrators had been burdened with complex, outdated systems. These solutions had a lack of automation, weak integration between functional capabilities, and failed to provide a seamless, unified management console with a hard-coded, physical view of storage.

To solve these problems, CommVault embarked on an 18-month research and development project, identifying the critical data management features and benefits not being offered by other storage management vendors: unparalleled automation, extreme ease-of-use, high reliability, competitive performance, flexible deployment and configuration, and superior manageability. First delivered as a LAN-based backup and recovery product, these features and benefits have been extended by CommVault to SAN and NAS-based storage architectures.

The company's vision and strategic mission is to be the leading provider of singular information management solutions, ensuring high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. To achieve this goal, CommVault recognized that its products needed to "manage" the entire data path – from application to device. In addition, CommVault understood early on that its software must "know the state" of the data and storage infrastructure where it resides for its products to ensure access and availability of data. Having established a technology leadership position in the backup and recovery market, CommVault is building upon that winning foundation – delivering new solutions that dramatically expand the market served. CommVault software and our accompanying pro-services are based on the concept of managing and moving data based on its attributes and its environment. CommVault software offers solutions for data protection, data migration and archiving, high data availability, storage resource management, device element management and data infrastructure management. The interaction and integration of these software modules results in many business and operational advantages, such as superior ROI, better use of storage resources, higher staff productivity, maximum data availability and reduced Total Cost of Ownership.

CommVault's Heightened Industry Award Recognition
CommVault has won several industry awards for its robust product offerings and superior management team from 2002-2008, including:

• Gartner rating of CommVault in the "Positive" category in the 2008 Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software Market Scope.
• 2005, 2007 & 2008 Diogenes Labs, Storage Magazine Quality Award for Enterprise Backup Software
• 2008 eWEEK Excellence Award – Storage Software Winner
• 2008 ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards – Automation or Compliance Tool Winner
• SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine 2002, 2003 & 2007 awards - "Best Product: Backup & Disaster Recovery Software"
• Steve Duplessie's Storage magazine "First Annual Awards for the Best and Brightest in the Storage Industry": CommVault was recognized as having one of the "most cohesive management teams." According to Duplessie, "These teams are very solid. There may be other talent around, but as far as I can tell, few individuals match the power of team, and these guys have killer teams."
• CommVault Galaxy: Microsoft Certified Professional's "Editors' Choice Award — Products We Can't Live Without"
• Best of CeBit America
• Network Magazine Product of the Year "Backup and Recovery"
• Gartner Midsize Enterprise Summit Software Innovation Award
• DM Review: Top 100