News Facts

• CommVault is expanding the reach of its customer service operations delivering fully integrated, global technical support capabilities across Asia Pacific and Latin America.
• In response to the needs of a growing global customer base and specific support requirements in China, Korea and Brazil, CommVault now offers:
• Chinese customers direct access to globally-based, solution-specific support engineers with more diverse and focused application expertise. This further enhances incident resolution by providing globally consistent 24x7x365 technical support. Global customers also have increased access to Chinese language support.
• Korean and Portuguese language customer support. CommVault has partnered with leading local service providers in Korea and Brazil to provide customers in these regions direct access to frontline technical support through a local number.
• This announcement reinforces CommVault's commitment to service and support which incorporates a locally-delivered but globally-integrated, single call queue for handling all customer support incidents consistently and efficiently. In addition, global technical support staffing is extended between support centers across the Americas, EMEA, APJ and China increasing the responsiveness to calls around the clock from all parts of world.
• CommVault's customer support expansion in Asia Pacific and Latin America is another example of the company's strategic investments to accelerate growth and better meet its customers' evolving business demands and support requirements.

• CommVault Chief Executive Officer N. Robert Hammer will address investors at the Jefferies 2012 Global Technology Media & Telecom Conference in New York City on May 9, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time (12:30 p.m. Pacific Time).
• Mr. Hammer will discuss the Company's most recent earnings results, which will be announced on May 8, 2012, as well as its latest software release, CommVault^® Simpana^® 9 software and market opportunities. Mr. Hammer will also take questions from the audience.
• Mr. Hammer's presentation will be webcast live and will be available for replay on the "Investor Relations" section of www.commvault.com.

CommVault today announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to offer a cloud storage capability that combines the power of Simpana^® software with the benefits and flexibility of storing data on the Windows Azure cloud platform. As data is expected to double every two years, organizations are grappling with flat budgets and costly primary storage that may contain up to 70 percent of infrequently accessed, stale data¹, said Sheila Childs, Research VP, Storage Technologies and Strategies, Gartner. The new offering provides enterprise organizations a simple, cost-effective solution to archive, index, search and access massive amounts of data for long-term retention and compliance. This combined data management solution for Windows Azure offers up to 62 TBs of cloud storage capacity and the data and information management capabilities of Simpana 9 Express for a starting price of approximately $50,000.

News Facts

• CommVault recently honored several valuable partners in a variety of categories in its first annual worldwide PartnerAdvantage^TM Awards program.
• The CommVault PartnerAdvantage Awards recognize partners that have exceeded sales and business goals, made significant contributions to customers' success and demonstrated its highest commitment to providing superior sales and support of CommVault^® Simpana^® software. The winners were announced during CommVault's worldwide Sales Kick-off Meeting held this week in Orlando.
• CommVault's PartnerAdvantage^TM program serves the company's partner ecosystem, which includes OEMs, resellers, value-added distributors and system integrators, by providing them with the necessary tools to broaden their product knowledge and implementation capabilities as well as incentives to drive additional revenue opportunities.
• As one of the world's fastest growing data storage software companies, CommVault's continued growth and success in the market can be attributed to its robust and highly-effective PartnerAdvantage program as well as contributions, commitment and support of the company's partners.
• Historically, more than 80 percent of CommVault's worldwide software revenue is transacted through channel partners. As a global company, CommVault's commitment in building mutually-beneficial partner relationships is stronger than ever.
• The 2012 PartnerAdvantage Awards recipients are:
  • Global
    • Compugen - Support Partner of the Year
    • Dell - OEM Partner of the Year
  • Americas
    • Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions - Distributor of the Year
    • CDW - Reseller of the Year
    • EAGLE Software - Professional Services Partner of the Year
    • AE Business Solutions - Trusted Advisor of the Year
  • EMEA
    • Avnet - Distributor of the Year
    • Fujitsu - Reseller of the Year
    • Gabsten Technologies - Professional Services Partner of the Year
    • Solid State Solutions (S3) - Trusted Advisor of the Year
  • APJ
    • Avnet - Distributor of the Year
    • Dell S&P - Reseller of the Year
    • Macro Data Solutions - Professional Services Partner of the Year
    • Southern Cross Computer Systems - Trusted Advisor of the Year
• Recognizing the contributions of its partners in accelerating sales of Simpana software reinforces CommVault's strong commitment to building and sustaining a strong channel program.

To fuel rapid growth and further empower Simpana^® software customers to lower data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks as well as best leverage data for improved decision making, CommVault has expanded its operations in India.

The exponential growth of digital data, "Big Data" is challenging organizations' abilities to store, protect, retain and recover vital information. There simply isn't enough time, resources or budget to manage, protect, index, retain and quickly recover the ever-growing amounts of data using legacy methods and tools. CommVault has developed state of the art data movement and indexing capabilities combined with the convergence of back up and archiving in order to reduce data management operational issues and reduce costs. CommVault's technology innovations have been recognized by the Info-Tech Research Group which Ranked CommVault as an industry "Champion" in both Enterprise Backup Software and Email Archiving. CommVault is uniquely positioned to address this convergence with its single platform architecture and continuing innovation leadership.

• CommVault will release the Company's financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and year ended March 31, 2012, on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, followed by a webcast and conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (5:30 a.m. Pacific Time).
• Investors can access the webcast by visiting www.commvault.com. The live webcast and replay will be hosted under "Investor Events" located under the "Investor Relations" section of the website. An archived webcast of this conference call will also be available following the call.
• Investors may also access the call by dialing 866-831-6234 (domestic) or 617-213-8854 (international).

Supporting Resources

• Learn more about CommVault
• Learn more about CommVault® Simpana® 9 Software
• Additional financial and stock information, news and events, and corporate governance

News Facts

• Afognak Native Corporation, formed under a settlement between Congress and Alaska's indigenous people, has deployed CommVault^® Simpana^® software to reinforce its disaster recovery and business continuity efforts in providing its shareholders and board of directors with the highest levels of data mobility and availability.
• Afognak has grown rapidly, with 36 offices and project sites in all 50 states, so the need to safeguard vital financial, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and project management data had increased exponentially.
• Due to high bandwidth costs in Alaska, Afognak sought the most network-efficient methods for meeting its two-hour recovery time objectives (RTO) regardless of where data resided. Additionally, the company required complete system failover due to its proximity to active volcanoes and earthquake threats.
• With CommVault's modern approach to data management and capacity licensing model, Afognak has been able to beat its RTO, reduce bandwidth consumption and increase data availability and access for the company's legal department and highly distributed workforce.
• According to Afognak, Simpana software's advanced functionality has yielded unprecedented flexibility, impressive reductions in data and storage capacity along with the most WAN-efficient disaster recovery process.

Now celebrating its 10th season, CommVault's ice hockey team has extended its schedule of special exhibition games and fundraisers to help raise awareness and crucial support for a number of children's organizations and charities nationwide. Since 2001, CommVault's Hockey Helping Kids program has assembled CommVault employees, partners and customers for a series of exciting and gratifying hockey games, dinners and auctions held in conjunction with National Hockey League (NHL) contests.

News Facts

• CommVault today announced that it achieved a 94-percent customer satisfaction rating, based on the results of the company's technical support survey, and a 95-percent renewal of annual support agreements.
• These 2011 CommVault benchmarks raise the bar for excellence in delivering technical support and services that top industry averages for customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention.
• In contrast to industry standards, customers who received support from vendors reported an average customer satisfaction rating of just 89 percentⁱ and an average customer loyalty rating of only 75 percentⁱⁱ.
• CommVault's commitment to service and support extends beyond its customer-centric approach to encompass state-of-the-art support processes and best practices that enable customers around the world to lower data management costs, mitigate business and compliance risks and improve access to information.

News Facts

• The OneSteel Group, a mining and metals group, has deployed CommVault^® Simpana^® software to modernise its data management platform with a single, unified solution for protecting, archiving and optimising 90 TBs of mission-critical email and application data.
• Based in Sydney, Australia, OneSteel has embraced Simpana software's single pane-of-glass management and integrated backup, recovery, deduplication and archive functionality to better support rapid growth driven by a diverse portfolio of domestic and international businesses.
• According to OneSteel, Simpana software is enabling the worldwide company to standardise on a set of best practices and policies, which will automate remote backups, improve overall resource allocation, increase the reliability of email services, and reduce the cost to store, retain and scale massive amounts of data.
• To simplify a complex Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration encompassing 8,500 employee mailboxes across 70 facilities in 15 countries, Simpana software was chosen over a legacy platform because the product delivered one consolidated solution for analysing, safeguarding, retaining and searching emails. CommVault technology also helps OneSteel reduce risk by bolstering support for internal business compliance needs, which necessitated granular visibility of Exchange and application data across all remote sites.
• With Simpana software's Singular Data and Information Management approach, OneSteel can deliver greater business value to its organisation while being able to easily locate and retrieve emails and data as needed for improved compliance and information governance.

• CommVault Chief Operating Officer Al Bunte will address investors at the Raymond James 33rd Annual Institutional Investors Conference in Orlando, Florida on March 6, 2012 at 4:35 p.m. Eastern Time (1:35 p.m. Pacific Time).
• Mr. Bunte will discuss the Company's most recent earnings results as well as its latest software release, CommVault^® Simpana^® 9 software. Mr. Bunte will also take questions from the audience.
• Mr. Bunte's presentation will be webcast live and will be available for replay on the "Investor Relations" section of www.commvault.com.

News Facts

• CommVault today announced that forward-looking healthcare institutions, including Cambridge Health Alliance, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic and Tampa General Hospital are standardizing on Simpana® software to enhance the quality of patient care by improving access to information while lowering data management costs and mitigating business and compliance risks.
• The healthcare industry is not immune to the challenge of managing an ever-increasing amount of data. Several healthcare IT initiatives, such as electronic medical records, health information exchanges and the implementation of solutions in support of meaningful use, that are now underway will generate volumes of critical healthcare data. This not only exacerbates healthcare data management challenges but also places organizations at great financial and compliance risks.
• On February 1, CommVault unveiled next-generation Singular Information Management® innovations to its Simpana software. These new advancements further empower healthcare IT organizations to simplify the management, protection and visibility into vital patient information across clinical, operational, virtual and imaging environments as well as edge devices.
• CommVault is seeing increased adoption of Simpana software in the healthcare market and counts major healthcare institutions, integrated delivery networks, regional health centers and outpatient facilities as its customers.
• Healthcare organizations can purchase Simpana software directly from CommVault or through its network of healthcare ISV, reseller, strategic technology partners and group purchasing organizations.

News Facts

• The highly innovative Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta has deployed CommVault® Simpana® 9 software to increase operational efficiency and manage nearly 160 TBs of student records, courseware and critical enterprise files.
• A model for agile learning spaces and collaborative teaching, Catholic Education serves 78 primary and secondary schools with more than 4,500 teachers and over 42,000 students in New South Wales, Australia. As part of its leading-edge learning and teaching approach, Catholic Education utilises Web 2.0 technologies including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, as well as video conferencing, interactive whiteboard systems and an e-Library online portal with more than 300,000 books and resources, all supported by a state-of-the-art Cisco Unified Communications network with fibre connectivity for up to three devices per student and more than 23,000 laptops.
• After doubling its network capacity to accommodate an average of 400 TBs of Internet data downloads each month and transitioning from a physical infrastructure to a largely virtual environment as part of a move to modernize its data centre, Catholic Education's IT team began experiencing challenges with the reliability of its backup and restore operations. Also, with compliance requirements to keep student data for up to 25 years - the IT team faced an additional infrastructure burden in terms of long-term data retention and related costs.
• With the overall strategy of the new data centre in mind, the organisation replaced its legacy system - which consolidated three disparate backup applications used separately to each protect vital corporate, Exchange and student data - with Simpana software. With a single platform approach, Catholic Education can now meet its backup windows and restore files in minutes. With CommVault's modern approach to data management, the organisation also has reduced administrative overheads in managing backup procedures in half resulting in significant operational savings.
• With new features including Simpana embedded global deduplication software, the organization now has decreased file system backup data by approximately 56 percent while reducing SQL and Exchange backups by nearly 80 percent. This has helped to significantly improve backup performance, reduced the amount of data on the network, while also enabling the organisation to scale as needs dictate.

News Facts

• The University of Rochester Medical Center, the centerpiece of the university's health, research, teaching, patient care and community outreach efforts, is the latest customer to embrace CommVault® Simpana® 9's Singular Information Management® technology and switch from its legacy Symantec NetBackup deployment.
• An expansion in the number of IT systems that drive healthcare delivery, all of which need to run 24/7, 365 days of the year, prompted URMC to re-evaluate its data and information management strategy. With Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, two hospitals, 121 locations and nearly 160 outpatient clinics, URMC was looking to eliminate the number of silo-based backup and recovery solutions and drive increased visibility into data across its multiple sites to support critical industry compliance and retention requirements.
• With the highest levels of patient care a priority as well as the need to support meaningful use initiatives, URMC selected Simpana software based on its ability to centralize the management of electronic medical records and research data across the university's rapidly growing physical and virtual environment.
• URMC leverages CommVault's unique, singular platform to accelerate both backup and recovery of 180 TBs of data for hundreds of clinical applications, including an Epic-based electronic medical record system, GE FlowCast, McKessonHBOC Star and Allscripts, spanning every department and medical specialty at URMC's hospitals, clinics, physician offices, labs and cancer centers.
• Additionally, URMC relies on Simpana software to better manage storage that's growing by up to 50 percent annually. By standardizing on Simpana software, the university is able to exceed recovery SLAs and retain rapid access to patient files and electronic health records as dictated by hospital policies, the National Institute of Health (NIH) and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizers (JCAHO).

In today's legal environment, massive amounts of complex data from a variety of sources, which is growing by up to 80 percent year-over-yearⁱ, impacts all the processes and people required to identify, collect, retain, find and process information as part of eDiscovery or litigation. Lengthier discovery events typically handled one at a time, are further compounded by larger and more frequent numbers of cases, custodians and cumbersome data collections as businesses walk the fine line between over-collection, which drives costs higher, and under-collection, which introduces greater exposure to risk. At this year's LegalTech New York conference, CommVault (booth #1401) addresses tough legal information management challenges with newly introduced enhancements to its Simpana® 9 software, leveraging a single ContentStore that provides collection, preservation and discovery benefits to drive down complexity, cost and risk.

• At its SolveForward 2012 event today, CommVault will unveil new, next-generation Singular Information Management® innovations that further empower Simpana® software customers to lower data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks and easily extract data for better decision making with anywhere, anytime information access. These include:
• New Simpana OnePass capability slashes the combined time typically required to backup, archive and report by more than 50 percent over traditional methods with the industry's first converged backup, archive and reporting process designed to affordably protect, manage and access data on systems that have become "too big".
• Simpana SnapProtect® technology now delivers the industry's broadest hardware snapshot integration, providing customers with SAN investment protection and choice, eliminating the backup window, accelerating recovery and reducing costs.
• Simpana software enhancements accelerate virtual server adoption further by helping organizations better manage, protect and scale virtual machines across their enterprises and into the cloud.
• New Simpana Edge Protection protects data on laptops and desktops with embedded source deduplication for optimized efficiency. End users now have flexibility to search, access and perform self-service recovery through any Windows, iOS and/or Android device.
• New Simpana 9 integration with Microsoft SharePoint improves application performance, capacity utilization and shrinks backup windows.

The continuous growth of electronically stored information, combined with the need to rapidly and accurately respond to discovery and investigation requirements, dictate a more strategic approach to eDiscovery in order to control cost and reduce overall risk and exposure. Next week, CommVault will be leading several sessions with legal experts to provide best practices and insight on how to effectively manage information and quickly gain visibility and control over the eDiscovery process.

The explosion of data coupled with data center modernization, virtualization and cloud computing have overwhelmed traditional backup methods and led to poor recovery times, potential data loss and higher costs and business risk. The only way to bridge this data protection gap requires a radical new approach to protecting applications, systems and data through tight integration of data management software with hardware snapshot and replication technologies. CommVault is making this modern data protection approach available to more customers than ever by expanding its support for array-based snapshots through the new CommVault® IntelliSnap­ Connect Program.

News Facts

• STW Communications Group, Australia's largest marketing communications group, comprising more than 70 marketing, media, advertising, public relations and digital communications firms, is deploying CommVault® Simpana® software to deliver a scalable, centralised backup and recovery solution, utilizing SnapProtect® technology to increase compliance and content management capabilities.
• Representing some of the world's biggest companies and most well-known brands, including BMW, Myer, IBM, Coca-Cola, American Express and St George Bank, STW Group manage huge amounts of data-intensive digital images and video content for its clients and estimate annual data growth of up to 50 percent.
• With CommVault's modern data management approach, STW Group is poised to better manage 120 TBs of mission-critical data, while meeting its member companies' escalating demands for rapid recovery and longer-term retention of vital artwork archives and project files.
• Looking to improve efficiencies and establish a flexible foundation for growth, STW Group turned to CommVault's unique approach to backup and archive which works seamlessly with STW's NetApp FAS 3240 storage system. Using Simpana software to drive the process, STW creates multiple recovery points for its Microsoft Exchange and VMware environments to improve service levels for recoverability, maximise the effectiveness of existing storage hardware investments, and reduce overall business risk.
• By switching to Simpana software, STW Group is replacing several legacy data protection platforms that didn't meet the company's requirements for increased data security. With more cost efficient, integrated data management, CommVault technology will enable the company to compete more effectively for new business by exceeding the requirements for the stringent data protection and availability legislation around financial and healthcare information, which is a prerequisite to winning and sustaining clients in these sectors. According to STW Group, these were some of the most compelling business benefits of the unified CommVault Simpana platform.

News Facts

• What: N. Robert Hammer, CommVault's chairman, president and CEO will ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell on January 9, 2012. Following the ceremony, CommVault will host an invitation-only event bringing together global IT leaders from various industries to hear from technology experts and network with their peers. During the one-day event, CommVault and industry visionaries will discuss how organizations can better position their IT capabilities to manage the explosion of enterprise data, minimize the cost and operational impacts of new technologies on the data center and deliver real value back to the business through information management and accessibility. This modern data and information management approach is the essence of CommVault's award-winning Simpana® software, which empowers companies to stop simply backing up data and start solving data and information management challenges more strategically and holistically.
• Who: Attendees will hear from Gartner analyst, Dave Russell, who will present on the state of the data management market. Additionally, John Amato, publisher of Computerworld magazine, will lead a CommVault customer panel discussion with IT executives from Adobe, BT, Levi Strauss & Co. and Raymond James. The panel will address how organizations are preparing for and managing the explosion of enterprise data. Review the list of speakers and their bios.
• Where: NASDAQ MarketSite, 4 Times Square, 43rd & Broadway, New York City
• When: Monday, January 9, 2012, 9:15 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST

Large enterprises migrating from a legacy backup to a modern data management approach often lack the time, resources or capabilities to ensure they are maximizing the value of their IT investments. In order to optimize these clients' data management practices in alignment with business and operational requirements, CommVault is launching a new Enterprise Consulting Services practice to accelerate the adoption of a modern data management strategy.

News Facts

• CommVault has been positioned in the Challengers quadrant in Gartner's report, "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving."¹
• According to Gartner, enterprise information archiving "is the next step in the evolution of archiving that incorporates new products and solutions for archiving user files (email and files on file shares) and, optionally, other content types such as instant messages, structured data and social media content. These products provide features such as data deduplication across content types, retention management, content indexing and at least basic tools for eDiscovery, such as search and legal hold."
• Archiving is becoming an increasingly critical component of a data management strategy driven by cost containment, eDiscovery and compliance. CommVault® Simpana® software delivers a revolutionary approach that converges backup and archive into a single, scalable product which ensures that however data is copied or moved, managed and stored, it is unified to deliver a true lifecycle approach to the protection, retention and access of data.
• For the first time, organizations can protect, archive and search enterprise information through one software platform. As a result, IT departments can achieve up to 50 percent cost savings and improved operational efficiencies.
• Simpana software's intelligent index, classification and retention capabilities further enable access, discovery and recovery of data across all captured production data from hardware snapshots to application archives. Redundant data across both protection and archive copies is eliminated and the policy driven retention and search of indexed data is streamlined across disk, tape or cloud storage.
• More than 2,500 leading organizations around the world have deployed Simpana software for archiving to address both storage optimization and the retention and disposition of information to support regulatory, legal and corporate policy.

The modern data center is undergoing a rapid shift to cloud-enabled services, mobile computing and 24x7 operations that is leading to unprecedented ways to create information that helps companies grow their businesses. The side effects, however, are massive data growth and a new set of challenges as organizations struggle to find ways to keep pace with growing volumes of data, more demanding service levels for recovery and collapsing backup windows. It's a phenomenon that requires a new strategy for information management, one that provides a seamless process from backup and recovery to archiving for data retention and easy, fast data retrieval. According to the results of CommVault's annual IT Storage Spending Predictions Survey, managing data growth, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, backup of virtual server environments and email/file archiving are the top five IT concerns facing end user organizations in 2012.

News Facts

• Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), a leader in providing safe and clean energy to the global markets, has replaced its legacy Symantec NetBackup software with CommVault® Simpana® 9 to meet ever-expanding business, compliance and data management requirements.
• Founded in 1980, KPC is involved in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, ranging from discovering new reservoirs to delivering fuel and providing essential petrochemical products. The company, which is fully owned by Kuwait, is experiencing rapid growth, which led to a need for centralised data management to improve RTO/RPO, increase operational efficiencies and respond faster to compliance requirements.
• According to KPC, Simpana Backup and Recovery software delivers the performance, reliability and manageability to better protect critical data, which they expect will double within a year, while accommodating an ever-shrinking backup window.
• KPC's IT team also relies on Simpana Archive software to streamline management of 15,000 Microsoft Exchange mailboxes while reporting a 30 percent decrease in storage consumption.
• With Simpana software, KPC now reports being able to safeguard vital applications, including Microsoft Exchange and Oracle ERP, along with an expanding VMware environment, and enabling data recoveries in minutes, not hours or days, as it took previously. According to KPC, any data loss could cost millions of dollars in revenue, which is why they have chosen CommVault technology to ensure business continuity.

News Facts

• IT-Lifeline, a leading business recovery service provider, is using CommVault® Simpana® 9 software to fuel the delivery of a new cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) service designed to transform how mid-sized organizations buy, deploy and use IT DR services.
• IT-Lifeline's new BLACKCLOUD® Edge service takes advantage of Simpana software's seamless integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide a secure DR cloud that costs customers up to 50 percent less than traditional disaster recovery services.
• Simpana software's integrated source side deduplication, data encryption and cloud integration transparently and securely moves on-premises backup and archive data into, and out of, Amazon's cloud, which is critical to the MSP from an implementation and support perspective. As a result, IT-Lifeline can scale its new service rapidly and economically without overburdening IT resources.
• According to IT-Lifeline, because of Simpana software's single platform approach to data management, the organization can provide heightened data security, compliance features and keep administrative costs low so additional savings can be passed along to customers.
• By taking advantage of AWS' scalable cloud infrastructure and CommVault's market-leading data management software, IT-Lifeline predicts that BLACKCLOUD Edge will become its fastest growing service and double the size of its business within two years.

As massive amounts of data are being created, regulatory and compliance requirements tighten, and virtual server deployments expand, traditional backup and recovery methods are unable to keep up with the increasingly complicated IT landscape and rapid data growth. Never has there been a more compelling time to modernize data protection across the enterprise. To that end, CommVault and Simpana software user, Denver Health, will be participating in a joint session at the upcoming Gartner Data Center Conference, which is being held December 5 - 8, 2011, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV. Together, the two companies will detail best strategies for modernizing data management in order to increase business uptime, reduce complexity and improve IT operations.

News Facts

• Australia-based Programmed Group has switched from its legacy Symantec software and standardized on CommVault® Simpana® 9 to consolidate and improve the backup and recovery of more than 70 TBs of crucial operational data.
• Founded in 1951, the company has grown to $1.2 billion in revenues by providing staffing, maintenance and project services to over 7,500 customers across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. According to Programmed Group, the company required a single data management layer to unify disparate protection technologies that were causing painfully slow backups, fragmented IT experiences and inadequate management of its growing virtual server environment, exposing the company to unnecessary compliance and business continuity risk.
• Now with CommVault's single platform approach to data management, Programmed Group reports that it has slashed its backup window by nearly 70 percent, enabling better access to the company's information assets, including critical contractual and financial data.
• Improved recovery of this vital data while easily meeting ongoing compliance requirements is especially important to companies like Programmed Group that is subject to regulations like the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (CLERP 9).
• Since a 25-person IT department shares responsibility for multiple roles across varying hours, according to Programmed Group, CommVault's centrally managed platform also helps to simplify and streamline management of the company's diversified information technology assets.

Rapid data growth, expanding virtual server deployment, and increasing datacenter consolidation projects have made traditional backup and recovery methods obsolete. CommVault has become an industry leader in developing new technologies that enable customers to easily and cost-effectively meet their data and information management challenges.

News Facts

• CommVault invites Simpana® software end users to enter its "Tales of Achieving Oneness" contest.
• The contest, which kicks off today, encourages users to share stories about how Simpana software is helping modernize data management practices to deliver a state of "oneness" that is free from the usual datacenter chaos.
• In a 3- to 5-minute video or written 300- to 500-word story, entries should explain how Simpana software has helped users overcome a particular data and information management challenge or made it possible to reduce cost and complexity in their data center.
• The contest is designed to showcase how organizations have replaced inefficient point solutions in favor of the Simpana single platform approach, with integrated backup, archiving, snapshot and search capabilities, for improved economic and operational efficiencies as well as reduced risks.
• CommVault will review submissions and select 10 finalists which will be posted on its Facebook page. The 10 finalist submissions will be judged by the public through an open voting process to ultimately determine one winner.
• The story with the most votes will win an Apple iPad 2 valued at $499.
• The deadline to submit a story is midnight Eastern Time on December 14, 2011. Finalists will be selected on December 19, 2011. The voting period will take place from December 19, 2011 to December 30, 2011. The winner will be announced on January 4, 2012.