CommVault Introduces Simpana 8 Next-Generation Data Management Software with Industry's First Embedded Global Deduplication
Simpana 8 Delivers Dramatic Operational Efficiencies; Performance Gains; Wider, More Global Management of Information; and up to 40% Data Management Cost Savings
OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
News Facts
-- CommVault(R) Simpana(R) 8, a major new release of the market-leading
enterprise data management software - which now includes advances in
recovery management, data reduction, virtual server protection, and
content organization - is now available.
-- The breakthrough release helps companies manage larger amounts of data,
scale to accommodate an expanding, globally distributed enterprise, and
implement cost-saving strategies by offering users new snapshot-based
data management, data deduplication, laptop and desktop protection,
remote office data management and advanced copy management features.
-- The new version of Simpana software continues CommVault's commitment to
delivering comprehensive data protection, backup and recovery, and
information management capabilities that enable companies to solve key
business challenges and transform their enterprise.
-- Built on the industry's only truly singular, unified platform, Simpana 8
can meet a broad spectrum of customer's discovery and recovery
management requirements and eliminate the need for a myriad of point
level products. Customers gain improved access to more data, simplified
data management, rapid recovery, and dramatic improvements in
performance, slashing data management costs by up to 40 percent.
-- The company's largest software release to date, Simpana 8 culminates 18
months of development and includes more than 300 enhancements and 140
newly added product features. CommVault has filed over 50 U.S. patent
applications related to Simpana software and its 8.0 release.
-- "Simpana 8 is radically changing the economics of data management for
businesses everywhere," said N. Robert Hammer , CommVault's chairman,
president and CEO. "Today's economic environment is challenging
enterprises to do more with less. Simpana 8 simplifies the way
businesses store and manage rapidly growing amounts of data and can help
customers ensure compliance, gain operational efficiencies, and
dramatically reduce their data management and related storage expenses
by up to 40 percent."
Industry's First Global Embedded Software Deduplication Reduces Up To 90 Percent of Backup and Archive Data on Tape
-- With the industry's first global embedded software data deduplication,
Simpana 8 offers a holistic approach to data deduplication that spans
both disk and tape tiers of storage.
-- Unlike appliance-based solutions that limit dedupe benefits to the
boundaries of the box, CommVault's unique, end-to-end approach expands
the benefits of block-level deduplication across an entire
organization's backup and archive copies, resulting in cost-efficient
scaling and performance across the entire data management
infrastructure. Data reduction begins at the client and spans through,
and includes, off-site tape copies. This holistic approach results in
faster network data transfers, shorter backup windows, faster recoveries
and a more efficient utilization of the disk infrastructure to support
customer recovery SLAs.
-- Simpana software automatically preserves the compressed state of the
deduplicated data as it is transparently migrated to tiers of cheaper
storage for longer retention needs. In the face of rising power and
cooling requirements and escalating growth rates, deduplication with
tape offers a game-changing advantage for customers by reducing the
footprint of long-term vaulting or compliance copies by up to 90
percent. This translates into fewer drives, lower maintenance and less
critical operating hours used.
New Advanced Protection and Recovery Features Increase Reliability By Approximately 20 Percent and Recovery Speeds By Up To 77 Percent
-- As customers look for ways to manage larger amounts of data and
implement cost-saving strategies such as consolidation and
virtualization, Simpana 8 introduces new advanced protection and
recovery capabilities that are optimized for mission critical systems,
help reduce infrastructure complexity, and manage data growth on the
edge. These include:
-- New Recovery Capabilities Optimized for Business Critical Information at
the Edge - Simpana 8 provides multiple options for protecting business
critical data at distributed remote and branch office locations. These
solutions facilitate WAN efficient transfers to pass compressed and
encrypted data between sites, as well as rapid recovery that helps to
minimize the risk and cost of downtime. Centralized, automated policies
applied to data residing on workstations and laptops help facilitate
compliance and search for rapid eDiscovery of both backup and archive
data. End users can also perform their own recoveries, eliminating the
need for local administrators and providing further cost savings.
-- New Snapshot Protection Capabilities Eliminate Backup Window- New
SnapBackup feature integrates seamlessly with hardware-based snapshot
technologies to create persistent application and data consistent
recovery copies directly from snapshots, bypassing the production server
and virtually eliminating the need for an operational backup window.
Simpana software removes the configuration and management complexity
normally associated with snapshot management, creates a unified policy
management framework for multiple pre-certified storage vendors
including EMC and NetApp , and offers point and click recovery points
from any storage tier (online, nearline, offline). As part of an ongoing
certification and integration program, CommVault intends to integrate
with and certify additional array-based snapshot vendors including Dell
and HDS. Transparent, off-host processing sequences catalog the contents
of the snapshot, validate the data and manage the logs to complete the
protection and archive process. Data retention policies automatically
promote selective copies to nearline/deduplicated stores or
offline/vaulted copies while preserving the ability for a point and
click simple recovery of the most complex application. New offline
mining tools for Exchange, SharePoint and Active Directory complement
the SnapBackup feature by extending the ability to recover granular
messages and documents directly from database recovery copies.
-- Simplified Management of Virtualized Environments - With single virtual
client support for VMware's industry-leading virtualization and
management suite, VMware Infrastructure, and Microsoft Hyper-V, Simpana
8 includes a host of flexibility and usability options designed to
simplify management of virtualized environments. Auto-discovery helps
eliminate time consuming manual processes, while ensuring users meet
their protection/recovery service level agreements. Users can conduct
backups in an efficient off-host mode to minimize the impact on
production and move just the changes to ensure seamless scalability.
Additionally, users benefit from a broad range of recovery options from
single files to virtual disks to the entire machine; and cross platform
restores from virtual systems to physical servers, or across virtual
platforms such as converting images between the VMware platform and a
Microsoft Hyper-V system.
Content Organization Features Streamline Information Classification of New and Existing Content for Data Retention, Compliance and eDiscovery Operations
-- Innovative Content Organization- Simpana 8 provides an innovative
enterprise content classification engine that automatically classifies
and categorizes content based on defined rules and search patterns.
These link to workflow policies that seamlessly profile, organize and
repurpose content to meet specific information management tasks,
including legal hold for eDiscovery. Information assets are
automatically organized into classification groups to provide users with
better control over new and existing information. Rather than adopting a
costly retention strategy across all data, required data is instead
managed, retained and organized to meet specific business requirements,
leading to improvements in access, operations and cost savings.
-- Advanced Application Integration - Simpana 8 software's new integrated
workflow is designed to target information management processes with
leading ECM systems and facilitates intuitive access to unstructured
content. Pattern matched information is tagged according to how
businesses want to view and organize their information and then placed
within desired business taxonomies and records management tools. This
allows business users to manage and access governance information
themselves, reducing the business risk associated with compliance and
potentially saving hundreds of hours while avoiding costly delays by
unnecessarily involving administrators in a discovery.
Simplified Purchasing and License Management
-- Many of the new Simpana 8 features are available in simplified and
consolidated pricing bundles aligned to popular use-cases to make
configuration and purchasing simpler than ever.
-- Businesses of all sizes - from SMBs to global enterprises to ISVs
hosting tens of thousands of clients - will benefit from CommVault's
product licensing. A single, universal electronic key that embeds all
licensable options allows customers to centralize license management and
deploy agents across the enterprise through a single "pane of glass"
interface. Customers can effectively eliminate the manual,
system-by-system, feature-by-feature license management and grueling
annual audit process required by legacy vendors. CommVault's new
Autoupdate service helps eliminate time-consuming installation tasks,
enabling users to automatically install service pack updates or full
version license upgrades to reduce operational and administrative
burdens.
Additional Supporting Quotes
-- "Containing costs and maximizing operational efficiencies are top
priorities for organizations today. Information spanning multiple
storage tiers and in distributed environments creates layers of
inefficiency and complexity. Consolidation, especially in a data
management solution, creates economies of scale, eases management and
lowers operational risk. CommVault Simpana 8 software, with its single
platform approach, is a great example of a solution meeting the
distributed data demands while reducing operational overhead. Further,
and most impressive, is its native, built-in data deduplication feature
which optimizes storage capacity across storage silos for all of the
data copies made for recovery and long-term preservation purposes," said
Lauren Whitehouse , analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group .
-- Industry analysts, customers and partners provide third-party validation
and support for CommVault Simpana 8 software.
Supporting Resources
-- Join CommVault's "Introduction to Simpana 8" launch webcast
http://www.commvault.com/simpana/?WT.mc_ID=316004
-- Access CommVault's Simpana 8 Social Media e-Kit
http://news.commvault.com/Simpana8
-- Learn more about CommVault Simpana 8
http://www.commvault.com/products.html
-- Read CommVault Simpana 8 Fast Facts
http://www.commvault.com/pdf/CommVault_Simpana8_FAQ.pdf
-- See Chairman, President and CEO N. Robert Hammer discuss the
significance of CommVault Simpana 8
http://news.commvault.com/Simpana8/hammer.asp
-- Read Vice President Marketing and Business Development David West's blog
on the impact of CommVault Simpana 8
http://news.commvault.com/DavidWest/000006_The_New_Storage_Economy.asp
-- Visit CommVault's delicious page on CommVault Simpana 8
http://delicious.com/commvault/simpana
-- Visit CommVault's Flickr page for images of CommVault Simpana 8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31256941@N06/sets/72157608242128797/
-- Learn more about CommVault's news
http://news.commvault.com
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,
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