CommVault Simpana 8 Software Garners Gold in the Storage
Magazine-SearchStorage.com's Prestigious Product of the Year Awards

February 3, 2010
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-- Simpana Software Wins Top Honors in Backup and DR Software Category for Exceptional Functionality, Value, Performance, Innovation, Ease of Use and Integration --
OCEANPORT, N.J., Feb 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CommVault(NASDAQ: CVLT):

News Facts

  • CommVault(R) Simpana(R) software has earned top honors in the TechTarget Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com'scoveted 2009 Product of the Year awards, presented by the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group. Simpana software was ranked as the best product of 2009 in the backup and disaster recovery software and services category, as judged by a panel of users, industry analysts, consultants, as well as the Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff.
  • According to the judges, Simpana software stood out for its functionality, value, performance, innovation, ease of use and integration.
  • According to Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com, CommVault's users are impressed as the company has finished in the top spot three of the four times the publication has conducted its annual Quality Awards survey, which ranks user satisfaction with quality, reliability and support.
  • Editors also noted that CommVault's unique singular approach has turned a lot of users into fans, characterizing Simpana software as "an incredibly functional product that integrates more into the complete suite than most vendors even offer as separate products."

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Simpana Software Nets Top Honors for Deduplication & Unified Data Management

  • The Product of the Year judges recognized Simpana software for advanced block-level data deduplication and the global approach taken by CommVault to build deduplication capabilities into both the backup and archiving process. Additionally, Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com called CommVault software's ability to dedupe data on tape to reduce the number of archive tapes an "industry first."
  • Among other top Simpana 8 features lauded by the judges were Continuous Data Replication, which captures all writes to disk and then replicates changes to the data center; and remote data protection, which provides centralized remote data protection over a wide-area network, as well as local backup and local restore functionality at remote sites.

Supporting Quotes

  • David West, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at CommVault
    "CommVault is honored to be recognized as the gold standard in backup and disaster recovery software and services by the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Groupand its elite panel of judges. CommVault's overarching goal to meet our customers' ever-increasing business demands is what drives our ongoing Simpana software product development efforts. It's extremely gratifying to receive industry validation of our singular approach to information management, which is what enables CommVault to continually deliver best-of-class solutions with robust functionality and innovative features at an outstanding value."

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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(R) 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(R) 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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