CommVault Integration platform helps enterprises to deal with cloud storage

With the rapid development of information technology, cloud computing has become the focus of information development in China and even the world today. According to Gartner's latest 2012 Top ten strategic technologies, the cloud has become a subversive force that is having a huge impact on many areas and industries. The world's major data and information providers have launched their own cloud-related products and solutions, a time market competition is very fierce. With the rise of cloud computing, the concept of cloud storage has become a hot spot in the industry. In contrast to the general storage mode, cloud storage is a better performance in helping the enterprise IT department improve the efficiency of server utilization, reduce hardware expenditure and cost of energy.

The world's leading data and information management application provider, CommVault Systems, says the challenges facing today's IT departments are how to better protect, manage, and recover their business-critical data. Trying to keep up with the rapid pace of data growth each year 30–50% means that storage teams must increase their capacity requirements by one times every 18 months. In the face of possible budget cuts, many IT departments around the world need to explain not only their spending growth but also their current spending and staffing. For any IT environment that faces challenges in data management, the cloud has a greater advantage in providing the private sector and the millions of-member multinational with the same level of service as within the enterprise, and can save a lot of budget. Cloud computing's disaster recovery capability is one of the most important considerations for all customers when investigating cloud service providers.

By seamlessly integrating with cloud storage solutions from cloud-based services providers, CommVault can help customers easily transfer infrequently accessed data efficiently and securely to the cloud environment, increasing the utilization of assets within the enterprise while achieving disaster recovery. By simplifying data transfer to the cloud storage tier, CommVault enables enterprise IT departments to reallocate expenditures based on business priorities to help boost revenue growth. And for the remote office that is looking for safe and efficient telecommuting, it can also make the backup data and clouds the environment, so as to effectively solve the problem of high cost and difficult backup, and gain significant benefit in power, cost and performance. Based on typical customer application cases, CommVault software can help customers reduce the cost of cloud storage to 75% by leveraging embedded compression and deduplication, reducing data footprint, and then transferring and storing to the cloud environment over the network.

Recently, an advanced service provider announced the introduction of cloud-based innovative disaster recovery services, which has a wide range of technology continuity solutions designed to meet the unique needs of small and medium enterprises (SMB), operates primarily as a technology recovery center and delivers redundant solutions at all levels, Excellent solutions can be delivered from real-time business continuity services to all operations or priority operations to backup and recovery of business-critical data and applications. CommVault's integrated platform provides technical support to the cloud era. "Now is the cloud era, and by leveraging the CommVault market-leading Simpana data and information management software, we can improve the way midsize enterprises purchase, deploy, and use IT disaster recovery Services," the provider said. It also says it is important to simplify the movement, protection, and archiving of the various types of data stored in the cloud. It is also important to reduce data management costs by leveraging source-side data deduplication and encryption while ensuring the highest level of security for all data delivery and recovery.

CommVault that enterprise customers need a transparent way to extend data to the cloud without the need for products with too many moving parts because it makes future processes more complex. Instead, they need an integrated, scalable solution that is easy to deploy, manage, and easily scale to support hundreds of customers and petajoules byte of data. "With CommVault, the enterprise IT team can now take full advantage of the integrated reporting capabilities to avoid using proprietary systems and move the reporting functionality to the Simpana software." Integrated reporting capabilities, combined with role-based access control and fallback functionality, can further simplify management while earning more quickly. As a member of the CommVault service provider scheme, it can enjoy more benefits and can promote the delivery of managed data protection services through local support and implementation assistance.

Some enterprise customers for the convenience of individual use, but began to build a private cloud, the expectation of data, security and quality of service to effectively control. Private cloud is generally dependent on the deployment of the company, but also rely on the appropriate technical support. CommVault's integration platform also helps enterprise users simplify storage in the cloud environment, and its embedded source-side data de-duplication and encryption capabilities favored by customers. By compressing data before it is sent over the network and stored in the cloud, CommVault's integrated solution allows the enterprise to further reduce the associated storage costs. Thanks to the CommVault capacity licensing model, businesses can easily add a large number of new features, including archiving and replication, to their customers ' needs. In addition, restoring a single object, entire capacity, or full application becomes simple enough to meet the different levels of customer recovery requirements, while many innovative features, including a dash copy, help the team make an additional recovery copy economically and efficiently.

The outstanding performance of the CommVault integration platform, and its leadership position in the influential Gartner corporate backup and restore Magic Quadrant report, impress many business users. CommVault technology, they say, is more suited to the cloud-era trend than rivals. Its cloud vision is also more optimistic. CommVault provides an improved cloud storage data and information management approach based on the Simpana software architecture and platform, allowing users to seamlessly take advantage of the economics and flexibility of cloud storage without losing the ability to monitor, manage, protect, and defend data, wherever it resides.