Organizations around the World Select CommVault over Competition for Superior Data Management
OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2008--CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT):
-- Companies are able to adapt to changing business conditions more quickly and economically by choosing CommVault(R) Simpana(R) 7.0 Software over competitive solutions. -- More than 8,500 companies have chosen CommVault over competing vendors for its singular approach to data protection, disaster recovery, archive and resource management, including: Art Institute of Chicago, Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation, ChangHong, Ciser, Cision North America, Devon and Cornwall Police, FAW-VolksWagen, GMHBA Health Insurance, Holly Hunt, InfoReliance, Karoon Gas Australia Ltd., MinSheng Life, Shanghai Customs PRC, Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, Wall Township Public Schools, and Zentrix Mexico. CommVault Simpana 7.0 provides an efficient way for businesses to store, protect, manage, and discover enterprise information across all tiers of storage. -- "Companies of all sizes are facing explosive data growth and with increasingly tightened regulatory scrutiny, executives are forced to focus on enhancing visibility into risks across the organization, lowering overall infrastructure complexity and streamlining costs," said N. Robert Hammer, CommVault's chairman, president and CEO. "CommVault Simpana software's Singular Information Management approach provides the flexibility that companies need to successfully compete and respond to new business demands. In today's global environment - which requires agility and the ability to react swiftly to market conditions - the inherent ROI and efficiency benefits gained from Simpana software compared to our competitors creates a unique selling advantage for us over other vendors in the market. That's why more and more customers are choosing Simpana 7.0 software over other solutions." -- In related news, CommVault announced its first quarter fiscal 2009 earnings results noting that demand for its Simpana Software Suite remains strong. Just over 40 percent of CommVault's entire install base has either upgraded or has purchased the Simpana suite. Sales of CommVault's advanced data and information management products or ADIM, which do not include backup products, represented 27 percent of software revenues. Archiving, file level deduplication, replication and search continue to be key drivers of growth for ADIM. Milestones Reached in One Year Anniversary of Simpana 7.0 Software -- CommVault added 67 employees during the quarter, primarily in sales, customer service, and support, bringing total worldwide headcount to 933 at the end of June. CommVault also leveraged investments in R&D by expanding the Hyderabad, India location. -- In addition to offering backup, archive, replication, resource management, and search functionality over the last year, CommVault also introduced Remote Office Management Service (ROMS(TM)), Legal Hold, and enhanced capabilities for Microsoft including native 64-bit support, archive across Windows file systems and application data, including Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows, SQL Server 2005, Active Directory, Windows Vista, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and solutions like Microsoft Dynamics powered by SQL Server 2005 and support for Windows Server 2008 environments. -- CommVault expanded into the SaaS market with Simpana 7.0, building on partnerships with leading storage and data management solution providers including Incentra Solutions and Rackspace. -- CommVault Simpana software is ranked number one overall in the Third Annual Diogenes Labs - Storage Magazine Quality Award in the enterprise-class backup and recovery software category, named best backup and disaster recovery software solution in Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com's Product of the Year award, and earned top honors in the storage software category in the eWeek Excellence awards. As eWeek judges noted, "CommVault Simpana 7.0 has every feature a company of virtually any size needs to institute a full-fledged enterprise storage system."
Wall Township Public Schools Turns to CommVault Simpana Software for its Singular Approach to Risk Mitigation and Compliance
-- Wall Township Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Wall Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The district currently serves seven schools and approximately 4,300 students. In order to ensure adherence with federal compliance mandates, the district reviewed several competitive solutions before concluding that only CommVault could fully address their information risk management needs. -- "Having immediate access to our information is paramount to making better business decisions and adhering to strict regulatory compliance requirements," said Jeffrey Janover, director of technology at Wall Township Public Schools in New Jersey. "The beauty of the Simpana suite is its single architecture, which allows us to organize data in ways we couldn't before. We now have that 'single pane of glass' view, which helps us manage our data across all tiers of our storage system. CommVault software provides us with instant access to our information quickly and easily, giving us the confidence that our data will be available when and where we need it."
Microsoft Exchange Server 2008 Integration Drives Cardinal Logistics' Investment Decision in CommVault
-- Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation is the premier provider of third-party transportation management and dedicated delivery services. With customers that include many of the Fortune 500, Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation relies on up-to-date technologies to stay ahead of its competition. As such, Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation was looking for a data management solution that offered the ability to rapidly upgrade to some of the newest Microsoft technologies, while still providing access to information stored on legacy and older systems. After evaluating several competitors including Symantec, Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation chose CommVault to protect the data housed on their Exchange environment. -- "We were impressed with CommVault Simpana 7.0's tight, seamless integration with the Microsoft Exchange Server environment," said Marty Hurd, network administrator for Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation. "Before implementing the CommVault solution the sheer volume of email in our Exchange Server slowed performance and threatened to impact our end-user productivity. We needed a solution with a proven track record supporting the Microsoft platform and CommVault's software was reliable, easy to manage, and cost-effective."
InfoReliance Relies on CommVault Simpana over Competitive Solutions for Complete Data Protection Management
-- InfoReliance is a rapidly growing IT firm that builds, deploys and manages custom, Web-based software solutions that transform the business operations of federal government and defense agencies. The company is known for delivering large-scale, highly complex software applications for defense and civilian organizations. InfoReliance has helped dozens of agencies automate lines of business and leverage their technology investments by providing exceptional IT counsel, first-class products and services and on-time, on-budget implementations. InfoReliance relies on CommVault Simpana software to deliver reliable, cost-effective and secure data management. -- "Data protection has many roles within the enterprise. While backup and recovery protects day-to-day productivity, the CommVault Simpana suite takes it one step further helping our customers throughout the federal government to protect against legal liability, reduce human error, and maximize IT investments," said John Chirhart, consultant, InfoReliance. "CommVault Simpana 7.0 makes my job easier, and is the only software that allows me the ability to easily secure my data, and my customers' data at every level of its lifecycle. There's no competitive solution I trust more than the CommVault Simpana suite since it makes my life easier from both a management and security standpoint."
Cision North America Selects CommVault for Flexible, End-to-End Data Management Solution
-- Cision North America, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is the leading global provider of media monitoring, research, distribution, and evaluation services for the public relations industry across the world. After evaluating CommVault and competing solutions, Cision North America selected CommVault Simpana software to help streamline its data management while providing the scalability and capabilities to support its high-growth business in the future. -- "It was critical for us to invest in the right data management solution that would provide immediate benefits today, as well as support our future growth," said Dan Wons, vice president, Networking Infrastructure for Cision North America. "We needed a solution that addressed all our data management needs, not just backup. As the amount of data we manage increases, so does the complexity of our environment and our retention and compliance requirements. CommVault software was the only solution that provided us with the flexibility to meet our ever-changing data and business needs." Supporting Resources -- Learn more about CommVault Simpana 7.0 http://www.commvault.com/products/ -- Learn more about CommVault's customer success stories www.commvault.com/stories -- Learn more about customers switching to CommVault http://commvault.com/switch/index.asp?sc=pra -- Read the CommVault Whitepaper, "Tipping Point: How to Know When its Time for a New Data Management Solution" http://www.commvault.com/news_story.asp?id=370 -- Read the CommVault Whitepaper, "Best Practices for Switching Your Backup Software" http://www.commvault.com/switch/index.asp?sc=pra -- Learn more about CommVault's news http://www.commvault.com/news.asp 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. (cvlt-cs)
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