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Commvault Software: Enterprise Cloud Backup and Archive, Simplified THE A-B-C’S TO STORING, MANAGING AND PROTECTING STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA Today’s enterprise organizations rely on a wide range of operating systems, applications, servers and storage to meet global business requirements. To be successful, you need more than just fast backup and recovery. You must also actively manage, access and leverage data across storage tiers wherever it resides. Plus, you need the freedom to deploy the storage and infrastructure that best meets both budget and performance requirements. Commvault software delivers a comprehensive approach to storing, managing and protecting both structured and unstructured data. Cost-effective, efficient and high performance, Commvault software evolves over the complete data lifecycle, matching the storage and management costs to the value of data. Even more, it meets data protection needs with the simplicity that’s as easy as A-B-C.
COMMVAULT SOFTWARE HIGHLIGHTS • Support for over 25 cloud storage platforms1 • Fast, one-step recovery and data access • Unified, integrated data protection and • Support for multi-vendor storage recovery environments – no vendor lock-in • Flexible options for snapshots, backup, • Quickly recover, access and leverage data archive and reporting across the enterprise • Single virtual repository and index to eliminate data silos
Today’s enterprise data is far from “uniform.” That’s why your data protection, backup and recovery solution should cover the full range of data sources, file types, storage media and backup modes – from snapshots to streaming. 1 commvau.lt/29ZBUDm
INTEGRATED DATA PROTECTION FOR THE HETEROGENEOUS ENTERPRISE Enterprises today are comprised of a complex mix of hardware, applications, platforms and architectures – from on-premises to cloud and every hybrid mix in between. Based on a single code base and a single index, Commvault software protects all data sources, file types and applications via a completely integrated, centralized solution. Protected data is stored in a virtual data repository which eliminates the separate data silos that can come with traditional snapshot, backup, archive and reporting products. The result is a unified and automated data protection platform that provides a complete view of all enterprise data, wherever it resides. Because Commvault supports a wide range of industry leading storage, systems and environments, you’re never locked-in to a specific vendor’s expensive brand of storage. As such, you gain the freedom of choice you demand to remain agile and efficient while taking advantage of the latest technologies you seek to meet changing business requirements. In the cloud, Commvault software supports over 25 cloud storage platforms. With this broad cloud storage integration, backing up workloads, applications and data to the cloud is easy. From a few applications to petabytes of data on an ongoing basis, Commvault will help you get your data to the cloud – and protect it – both easily and efficiently. Delivering fast, reliable data protection and recovery, simplified management and reduced infrastructure costs, Commvault will give you new insight into your data so you can fully leverage your data assets across the enterprise.
DATA PROTECTION’S A-B-C’S: ARCHIVE, BACKUP AND CLOUD With Commvault, data protection can be as easy as learning your A-BC’s: Archive, Backup and Cloud. Delivering simple and scalable data protection across your entire enterprise, Commvault software provides greater data and application availability, while reducing cost and risk. A: ARCHIVE FIRST - Reduce your primary storage expense and improve backup and restore times with less data to manage. B: BACKUP LESS - Improve data and application availability with modern technologies and techniques including snapshots and active-active storage clustering. C: CLOUD CONNECTED - Simplify disaster recovery by copying your data to the cloud instead of incurring the cost and complexity of tape.
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ARCHIVE FIRST Archiving first will allow you to move inactive data to lower-cost secondary storage, freeing up valuable and more costly primary storage resources. With less data retained on primary storage, backup and recovery jobs take less time so that you can more easily stay within your backup windows while lowering your recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements. Many organizations rely on separate point products to solve their data protection, archive and reporting needs. But this causes complexity and management headaches as data silos become inefficient, costly and difficult to protect. Using a converged process for backup, archive and reporting from a single data collection and common infrastructure, Commvault eliminates the silo problem. It enables organizations to solve massive file, folder and Microsoft Exchange email growth challenges with zerofootprint archiving and no additional overhead. It also makes it easy to manage and move files and emails based on user-defined policies to the most cost effective storage including disk, tape or cloud. Commvault software also includes integrated reporting and advanced analytics so companies can leverage their data in support of eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and other business needs. All managed and protected data is retained in a virtual repository so that it can be quickly recovered, accessed and leveraged when needed. With Commvault archiving you’ll realize the following benefits: AUTOMATE DATA MANAGEMENT AND LOWER COSTS: • Eliminate point solutions with a converged approach to data management • Reduce infrastructure, administrative and overall support costs • Consolidate management and policies into a single console for maximum productivity • Optimize storage because only relevant data is retained SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVE OPERATIONS: • Reduce infrastructure demands with less data traversing the network and less impact to the system, improving disk I/O impact • Collapse the backup windows and improve server performance • Increase productivity at the user and administrative levels with optimized system performance and transparent end-user access MEET DISCOVERY CHALLENGES AND REDUCE RISK: • Streamline preservation, legal hold actions and overall discovery for legal teams with a single query data repository and central deletion point
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BENEFITS OF ARCHIVING FIRST • Lower overall storage costs • Reduce load on primary storage • Control growth with compression, data deduplication, and data disposal • Require less time and resources • Minimize licensing and management costs
• Eliminate data redundancy during the review process to lower thirdparty costs • Reduce risk by only retaining data with business, compliance or evidentiary value, while defensibly deleting data that does not meet these standards from a single source • Enable cost-effective long-term retention to meet information governance standards
BACKUP LESS A second way to provide greater data and application availability is to leverage modern data protection technologies such as snapshot and high availability solutions. Using Commvault’s snapshot management, you have the freedom to decide which storage arrays – including a multi-vendor storage mix – you want to use while reducing the need for traditional, or legacy, backup and recovery.
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FAST APPLICATION RECOVERY Unlike traditional snapshot solutions, Commvault snapshot management technology efficiently protects a wide range of enterprise environments, including multi-vendor storage, file systems, applications and hypervisors. This dramatically simplifies management, since administrators can initiate snapshots using a consistent process and user interface regardless of the application or storage platform. By integrating tightly with host applications and heterogeneous hardware arrays, Commvault software creates application consistent snapshots, indexes the content and can optionally drive backup or disaster recovery copies to secondary disk, tape or cloud storage. In addition, workflow automation capabilities can completely automate complex or highly repetitive manual data management tasks. For environments with non-standard configurations that are not covered by the pre-built Commvault snapshot recovery workflows, the workflow automation tool enables administrators to quickly create custom workflows that bring together a set of individual tasks in a specific order or decision tree via an intuitive graphical user interface. As a result, protecting multi-vendor and multi-application environments is dramatically simplified (e.g. SAP® with Oracle®, custom applications). Commvault automatically indexes all snapshot copies under management, enabling intuitive search and granular recovery within and across snapshots. Since the snapshot technology integrates with Commvault backup processes and the virtual repository, you can enjoy fast, automated recovery of files, objects, applications and databases - without the hassle of complex scripts and non-integrated recovery tools. GREATER APPLICATION AVAILABILITY For many mission-critical applications, any failure that prevents access to data results in application interruption and possibly manual failover to another copy of data, potentially at a second site. Commvault
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software provides active-active stretched clusters over local and metro distances. Multipath software allows application access to replicated data from the shortest path for highest performance. Applications can avoid manual failovers and access the second copy of data either locally or between metro-distance sites. This enables high availability and continuous operations with access to data, assuring critical business application availability and integrity.
Commvault provides customers with a simple way to provide an active-active storage cluster between data centers. The storage-site failover is transparent to the host and requires no reconfiguration or downtime to activate. This enables a level of business continuity that from a storage perspective is effectively zero.
The most recent advances in storage resiliency and data availability are found in Commvault storage clustering technology. With Commvault clustering technology, there are two production sites, each with an active copy of all data. If a failure occurs at either site, its data is transparently available at the other site, with no need to fail over of fall back. Commvault software simplifies and automates high availability to ensure continuous operations for your most mission-critical data and applications. It assures that an active and up-to-date storage volume is available to a production application in spite of the loss of a virtualized controller. For organizations seeking simpler business continuity, Commvault software makes nonstop operations and workload mobility between systems and data centers a reality. It provides simplified and automated operations, greater flexibility, reliability and scalability and delivers unmatched resiliency by eliminating downtime for mission-critical data and applications. Greater application availability means less reliance on traditional backup and recovery and its inherent poor RTO and RPO.
CLOUD CONNECTED Disaster Recovery (DR) is an important piece to every data protection strategy. One DR approach has been to backup to tape and ship the tapes offsite. While it has been an accepted and traditional approach 5
COMMVAULT CLUSTERING BENEFITS • Ensure continuous operations for key applications • Provide nonstop data access without interruption • Refresh systems as needed without downtime • Move data or applications to improve efficiency
to DR, it comes at great cost; both operating and capital expenditures. Staff is required to manage the backups, coordinate rotating tapes offsite, request tape retrievals and then begin the data restore process. Secondly, a request to restore data or an application can take hours or days as a significant amount of time is spent requesting, retrieving and then waiting for the tape(s) while in transit. A better approach to improve recovery time objectives and reduce costs is to utilize a private cloud. Commvault software treats the public, private and hybrid cloud exactly like any other backup target, applying the same data recovery and retention policies as it does for local disks and other devices. All the underlying technologies that power the backup and recovery – security, encryption, deduplication and more – are extended to the cloud so you do not have to worry about complex scripting, extra software or thirdparty API connectivity. It is all integrated in a single end-to-end solution with pre-built workflows and simplified image creation to reduce both backup costs and risk.
What’s more Commvault software supports over 25 cloud storage platforms. With this broad cloud storage integration, backing up workloads, applications and data to the cloud is easy. In fact, Commvault offers a complete cloud management solution across multiple VM and cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and VMware. Using an integrated approach, Commvault enables you to automatically provision, protect and decommission your VMs – helping you achieve a more agile, efficient and cost-effective virtual infrastructure.
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BENEFITS OF A CLOUDBASED DISASTER RECOVERY SOLUTION • Faster recovery times. Staff no longer has to wait for tapes to be retrieved and shipped back from off-site storage • Lower capital costs. The expense of on-site tape libraries and their power, cooling and floor space costs are eliminated. • Save valuable staff time for important projects. Staff is no longer burdened with time spent labeling, cataloging and managing tapes.
TRUST YOUR DATA PROTECTION TO THE LEADER From archiving first and backing up less to cloud connectivity, Commvault provides the simple and scalable solution you need to make the A-B-Cs of data protection easy. Whatever your platform, or applications, Commvault provides greater data availability while reducing cost. Recognized by industry analyst Gartner as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions – for the past seven years in a row1 – Commvault is the trusted source for data protection and information management solutions by organizations worldwide. With Commvault, you can protect, access and use all of your data, anywhere and anytime.
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1 Gartner Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions” by Dave Russell, Robert Rhame, and Pushan Rinnen. July 2017.
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