Many companies are implementing virtualisation to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Virtualisation helps consolidate servers, improve hardware utilisation and reduce the consumption of power and physical space in the data centre. However, it creates a whole new level of management complexity and presents challenges in data protection, storage, and network consumption and manageability. As servers and workloads continue to consolidate into virtual stacks, effective data protection and recovery remain an ongoing challenge.

The amount of data being stored, administered, and protected by organisations has exploded over the years, and the current forecast for data growth is estimated at between 50/60% pa. While the cost of storage media is getting cheaper, the cost to manage storage is growing and valuable resources are being diverted to control and administer storage growth, and power and cooling demands are draining budgets. One of the primary reasons for these issues is the continued creation of unmanaged, stale, personal and/or duplicate data.

CommVault delivers dramatic operational efficiencies, unsurpassed recovery management, all managed from a single console. With support for wide range of Operating Systems and applications, CommVault can give you a solution that will allow for quick backup & recovery of data, with the minimal intervention of support staff.

Utilising Storage Policies, CommVault will help you define what you need to do with your data, such as how many copies you need, how long you need to retain the copy, and when to automatically retire it. CommVault manages your storage devices transparently to ensure efficient, cost-effective use of storage, while preserving simple, one-step recovery. You do not have to waste time finding tapes or scanning jobs to recover data, CommVault tracks the data’s location for you.

CommVault technology is built upon a Common Technology Engine. This consists of software modules that provide the necessary tools to manage and administer the Client Agents and also manage the storage media. This will allow CommVault to easily grow with the needs of your organisation in the future. Virtualisation support in CommVault includes automated discovery of virtual machines using default protection policies, agentless backup of virtual machines eliminating resource consumption, multiple backup options, including image-level, file-level, and volume-level and multiple recovery options, from individual files to entire virtual machines from any physical server, with all major virtualisation providers supported.

With the introduction of its third generation deduplication solution (Gen 3 deduplication) in Simpana® 9, CommVault continues to lead the industry in delivering innovative technologies that addresses pressing IT challenges and have fully integrated both source and target-side deduplication into their unified data management solution to provide best-in-class performance to dramatically reduce time-to-backup and the impact on your overall environment.