CommVault Positioned in Leading Analyst Firm's 2009 E-Mail Active-Archiving Magic Quadrant

June 2, 2009
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OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 2, 2009-- CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT):

News Facts

  • CommVault has been recognized in Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Active Archiving, published May 19, 2009.1
  • “The growing size of e-mail data stores, coupled with the requirement to retain e-mail records for regulatory compliance and legal discovery, has created a market for e-mail active-archiving tools,” the report states.
  • The exponential cost of managing ever-increasing messaging data is compounded by the complexity of storing, administering and protecting this data while also being able to preserve and quickly locate it for compliance and eDiscovery purposes.
  • CommVault’s E-mail Archiving and data retention solutions blend seamlessly as integral parts of the company’s overall holistic approach to data and information management. With its unique single-platform approach, CommVault® Simpana® software redefines how companies recover and discover enterprise information across all tiers of storage, while dramatically lowering the costs and challenges associated with retaining, searching and retrieving valuable information.

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Singular Information Management® Platform Eases Archiving for Compliance, Discovery & Data Retention

  • Since 2008 CommVault has significantly grown its archiving business, expanding its total archiving customer base to more than 1,500 customers who are leveraging Simpana software to meet escalating requirements for long-term data retention and compliance management. Sales of CommVault’s Advanced Data and Information Management solutions, which include deduplication, virtualization, archiving and search functionality, have been growing at a quarterly average year-over-year rate of 69 percent since July 2007.
  • CommVault Simpana 8.0 e-mail active-archive software for Microsoft Exchange Server and Lotus Notes Domino Server enables IT teams to control server and storage costs while helping legal and compliance teams reduce corporate risk and respond efficiently to eDiscovery actions.
  • Simpana 8, CommVault’s latest software release, features a host of product innovations to ensure ease of use and rapid archiving and data retention, including global, embedded deduplication, enterprise content classification, automated content workflow, and web-based search navigation, as well as compliance and eDiscovery management.
  • CommVault customers can reduce overall data management and related storage expenses by up to 40 percent using Simpana software. In addition to these business cost savings, Simpana software’s single-platform approach provides customers with distinct operational benefits, including improved reliability, scalability and streamlined management of existing storage assets.

Supporting Quotes

  • “E-mail archiving continues to be a cornerstone of CommVault’s multi-tiered data retention strategy,” says Simon Taylor, senior director of CommVault’s Information Access Management group. “We have consistently advanced our product architecture and continue to see year-over-year growth with new customers. CommVault’s mature archiving technology addresses issues associated with data retention while seamlessly integrating with our core search and discovery strengths to provide customers flexible and holistic data and information management.”
  • “We selected CommVault Simpana Archive software as a natural way to extend our current success with CommVault Simpana Backup and Recovery software,” says Jay Attiya, network manager for the Middletown (N.J.) School District. “Having the ability to quickly and accurately retrieve information reduces our risk and exposure, which will allow us to keep our budget where it belongs—in the classroom.”
  • “Having one console to manage all aspects of our physical and virtual server environment has enabled us to elevate our data protection, archive and migration capabilities to new levels of functionality while lowering our administrative overhead,” says Rob Rees, senior systems architect for ICOS/CMC Biologics.
  • “One of the real deal winners for CommVault was the ability to conduct universal searches of archived e-mail messages and attachments for litigation and compliance requests,” says David Warburton, network manager of VSE Corporation. “It wasn’t difficult to sell our executives on the benefits of this approach.”

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About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 19, 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About CommVault

A singular vision – a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs – guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault's exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault's Simpana® software suite of products was designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, to deliver superlative Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. More companies every day join those who have discovered the unparalleled efficiency, performance, reliability, and control only CommVault can offer. Information about CommVault is available at www.commvault.com. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey, in the United States.

Safe Harbor Statement

Customers' results may differ materially from those stated herein; CommVault does not guarantee that all customers can achieve benefits similar to those stated above. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive factors, difficulties and delays inherent in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of software products and related services, general economic conditions and others. Statements regarding CommVault's beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. CommVault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.

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1 DiCenzo, Carolyn; Chin, Kenneth; Gartner, Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Active-Archiving (Gartner, Inc. 19 May 2009)

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