As part of a long-term OEM partnership with Dell, (Nasdaq: DELL) CommVault (Nasdaq: CVLT) has announced a new fully integrated backup disk-to-disk-to tape based solution that enables small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to more easily manage and protect their storage information.
Dave West, vice-president of marketing and business development at CommVault, explains the company’s Simpana 7.0 software suite is the underlying technology that’s built on the Dell PowerVault DL2000 hardware appliance. The software suite is a unified data management platform that enables businesses to better protect, archive, replicate and manage their data and backup recovery processes.
“This solution is being branded as a Dell product,” West explained. “It’s being bundled to support five server configurations which include support for Exchange, Oracle, SharePoint, or whatever application the customer is running.”
With the new integrated solution, West says end-users only need to purchase one product since this is a centralized management console that combines hardware, software and de-duplication capabilities, all already built into one appliance.
The PowerVault DL2000 with CommVault Simpana 7.0 software is a turn-key solution that West says is fully customer-installable.
“Our goal is to have customers open up the box and have them fully functioning in 30 minutes,” he said.
West says this type of solution addresses the needs of a market that’s currently being underserved today. It’s also a way for the company to further reach out to Dell’s existing customer base, he adds.
“Customers are frustrated with what’s available today,” he said. “It’s a very large and mature market and we believe we’re embarking on a technology transition moving from old to new (technologies). Our value proposition is that the growth of data and its copies are getting out of control. We can go in and architect a data management solution that will reduce the cost and complexity and will also give users access to their information.”
The solution is expected to be available by the end of this month and also features reporting and maintenance tasks and policies for physical or virtual servers that are onsite or remote, as well as single-step granular recovery and automated storage policies capabilities.
“We believe this is a revolutionary offering for the SMB space that will reduce costs and complexities and will increase manageability and access to information,” West said. “We’re working to accelerate our investment with Canada too by building out the team and going after resellers and system integrators across the federal and commercial markets.”