Aug. 31, 2009 (Business Wire) -- CommVault (NASDAQ:CVLT):

News Facts

• CommVault continues to meet the growing demands of ever-increasing virtualized environments with new Simpana® software product innovations that deliver elevated levels of data protection and application agility while enabling organizations to simplify the management of their infrastructures for efficient IT operations and cost savings.
• CommVault® Simpana software, with its Universal Virtual Server Agent, delivers customers unique functionality including global, embedded content-aware deduplication; true, block-level image backup; cross-platform data recovery; and Virtual Machine (VM) auto-discovery that extends not only during initial installation but also throughout ongoing deployment of virtual machines.
• CommVault leverages its Singular Information Management® approach to simplify server virtualization deployment and management by offering the ability to eliminate the need to separately install, configure and manage multiple agents to protect multiple VMs. Collections of VMs can be protected centrally and off-host via a single policy.
• With CommVault Simpana software, customers can leverage global, embedded deduplication to dramatically reduce the amount of data residing on both physical and virtual systems. With less data under management, Simpana software can help customers cut costs on server purchases and maintenance, while also lowering administrative overhead, as well as space and energy use.
• By also optimizing backup and recovery, as well as archive storage utilization, CommVault helps organizations achieve consistent and reliable data protection to facilitate fast and cost-effective disaster recovery and elevated business continuity.

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Simpana 8 Simplifies Server Virtualization while Addressing Top Customer Priorities

• Additional capabilities in Simpana 8 are designed to address top customer priorities for managing server virtualization, including:
  • VMotion “awareness” for automatically and transparently tracking the location of a virtual machine, which ensures the continuity of virtual machine protection;
  • Cross-platform data recovery—from physical to virtual, virtual to virtual or virtual to physical—restores data volumes regardless of where the data resides;
  • Support for Proxy Server and Hot-Add Mode offers greater flexibility by deploying VMware data protection through a separate physical server or existing virtual machine;
  • Enhanced throttling enables organizations to fine-tune VMware data protection through configurable parameters that control the number of simultaneous VM backups or time delays between backup initiations to maximize concurrency; and
  • Operational efficiency is increased with single-pass backup support with single-step recovery of virtual machines, data volumes or individual files hosted on Microsoft Windows guest operating systems.

Customers Benefit from CommVault’s Commitment to Protecting Virtualized Environments

• David Loor, director of Information Systems, USC Keck School of Medicine:
  • “We use CommVault Simpana software to protect approximately 16 TB of data that is primarily Windows virtual and physical servers, as well as applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server. We value Simpana software’s unified architecture, which enables us to administer all data management operations from a single pane of glass.