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Customers Reap Benefits of Expanded Platform and Application Coverage as Recoverability Improves and IT Costs Are Reduced

OCEANPORT, N.J., Aug 08, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Responding to customer demand for continuous protection and recovery of business critical data and applications, CommVault(R) (NASDAQ: CVLT) today announced the newest version of CommVault Continuous Data Replicator (CDR). One of five core modules that comprise the CommVault Simpana(TM) 7.0 software suite, CDR leverages CommVault's uniquely singular approach to data management and centralizes remote office data, provides disaster recovery and offers higher levels of availability. By creating a more efficient process for replicating data, CommVault Continuous Data Replicator enables significant cost efficiencies for IT administrators, supporting host-based replication across Windows, AIX and Red Hat and SuSE Linux platforms, as well as improved recoverability of Oracle and Microsoft applications.

"Expanding our application and platform support to include Oracle and Microsoft data and applications, as well as Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems provides our customers with a robust, flexible and secure way to ensure the protection and availability of information across the heterogeneous enterprise," said David West, CommVault's vice president of marketing and business development. "With the Simpana 7.0 release, CommVault offers host-based replication on Windows, UNIX and Linux systems, managed from a single, unified interface. With CommVault Continuous Data Replicator, customers can easily centralize the management of remote office data, implement fast, cost-effective disaster recovery and enhance the availability of their data using a singular approach to data protection that leverages their existing IT infrastructure."

Managing and protecting data at remote sites can be costly, time consuming and inefficient. As the costs of managing remote office data continue to rise, IT administrators must look for cost-effective solutions that simplify administration, increase data availability and improve disaster recovery preparedness. With expanded platform support for Windows, UNIX and Linux, CommVault CDR enables efficient, secure, host-based asynchronous replication of heterogeneous data.

Indianapolis-based Lauth Property Group, a leader in commercial real estate development, construction and management, is discovering that CommVault CDR's strong replication and backup features can consolidate remote office data and provide disaster recovery capabilities. Charged with managing data protection at five remote sites, Mike Harris of Lauth Property Group says his company identified a centralized data protection strategy as a key initiative this year. "The choice was simple. We saw CommVault's singular approach to replication and backup as a better working and less expensive alternative to deploying multiple point products. Using CommVault Continuous Data Replicator software, we've been able to consolidate all our data, including regional offices, to one central location. This has helped us to curb costs, increase the reliability of our backups and ease administration."

CommVault CDR delivers Continuous Data Protection (near-CDP) for heterogeneous environments, as well as expanded support for Oracle and the latest releases of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, including Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) and 64-bit platforms and applications. Inherent application awareness ensures application consistency for the recovery process. As part of the CommVault Simpana software suite, CDR can be centrally managed along with CommVault Galaxy(R) Data Protection and CommVault Archive from a single Unified Console. Unlike competitive alternatives that consist of point replication, backup and archive products that make unified management and enterprise-wide reporting virtually impossible, CDR simplifies operations by enabling customers to centralize and holistically view all their remote clients' data and manage it alongside backup and archive data from a single interface. This allows customers to leverage or extend existing policies, search across backup copies to expedite backup and recovery and use unified enterprise-wide reporting to easily track operations.

In addition to continuously protecting data center and remote office data, CommVault CDR enables:

Centralized remote office data - delivers continuous replication of Windows, UNIX and Linux data, enabling customers to cost-effectively centralize remote office backup and recovery. CDR establishes a "fan-in," many-to-one configuration, where multiple remote office locations replicate to a central site.

Enhanced Disaster recovery - enables off-site protection by creating a consistent replica of data at a remote location as it is written to disk at the production site. In the event of a site outage, a second online up-to-date copy of data is readily available for use.

Improved Recovery Service Levels - improves recovery times and helps meet stringent recovery point objectives. CDR's continuous replicas and Recovery Point snapshots quickly and reliably recover remote Windows, UNIX and Linux file system data, as well as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2005 and Oracle databases.

Availability

CommVault Continuous Data Replicator is available now as part of the CommVault Simpana 7.0 software suite. Interested parties may license one or any number of the Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Search or Resource Management modules, which are designed to work together from the ground up.

About CommVault(R)

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 ManagementTM 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 SimpanaTM 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. (cvlt-pd)

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