Cisco Live: Commvault and Cisco Launch Simplified Backup, Recovery and Archiving Solution

Yesterday at Cisco Live, Commvault, a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, launched new Reference Architectures with partner, Cisco, that will offer consumers an, “Easy-to-buy, pre-optimized and validated” backup product. The new solution was developed to meet increasing data growth demands, and offers simplified data protection and recovery by leveraging the Cisco Unified Computing System infrastructure, and also provides support of Cisco’s HyperFlex, hyperconvergence system. Commvault asserts that this will help organizations protect data workloads and applications across virtualized and cloud infrastructures.

“Today’s launch of the new reference architectures and our support into Cisco HyperFlex bring trusted industry leaders together with complimentary technologies for the benefit of customers and partners,” said Ralph Nimergood, Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Commvault. “We are proud to team up with Cisco to address real customer pain points around ease of purchase and deployment in the form of reference architectures to reduce unnecessary hardware acquisition costs, optimize mission critical applications and limit the time to implement the right-sized solution significantly.”

Cisco and Commvault worked to develop the new reference architectures, so that instead of incurring the cost and aggravation that come with deploying multiple appliances to execute tasks, users can deploy an all-in-one solution with a single, unified backup, and recovery archive platform. This will lower total cost of ownership for organizations looking to simplify the backup and recovery process, while allowing the flexibility to scale on demand and adapt to changing workloads as needed.

“When we look for solutions to our customers’ important data backup, recovery and management needs, both on-premise and outside in hybrid cloud scenarios, we not only require exceptional technologies, but also solutions built on partnerships by trusted industry leaders,” said Tom Cahill, Vice President, Product and Partner Management, CDW.  “Through their new reference architectures, Commvault and Cisco are going to make it easier and faster for CDW to deliver the solutions that add value for our customers.”

Regarding Commvault’s announcement of added support for Cisco HyperFlex– users can anticipate these new benefits:

Increased automation – Commvault software detects and classifies new VMs, and adds them to the proper backup policy. Commvault software can also automatically detect idle VMs, and safely archive them to reclaim valuable production resources.  A built-in workflow engine allows additional administrator-specified automation.

Scalability – Commvault software automatically load-balances across multiple backup servers to deliver a modern scale-out experience to growing datacenters. End-to-end deduplication dramatically reduces network traffic and storage space, so managed data stays compact and efficient.

VM Specific Support – With Commvault software’s integration with VMWare APIs, storage owners can avoid installing agents in every VM, thereby reducing overhead. Backup policies can be set based on VMWare metadata and a snap-in for VSphere, the management burden is eased. Full VM or individual file restore options save time and provides flexible recovery options to meet business needs.

Reference Architectures is available for select Commvault customers and Cisco partners right now, and you can find more details about the new product here.

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