Commvault Partners with Pure Storage to Give Customers Power, Performance & Efficiency for the Flash Data Center with Cisco UCS

Commvault
Partners with Pure Storage to Give Customers Power, Performance &
Efficiency for the Flash Data Center with Cisco UCS

World-class technology from Pure Storage, Cisco and Commvault
provide organizations a high performance, scalable platform for easily
deploying business-critical workloads

Cisco Live, Melbourne, AU and Singapore – March 9, 2017 – Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a global leader in enterprise
backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today announced the integration of its
Commvault Data Platform and IntelliSnap® technology for  FlashStack™, a
flexible, converged infrastructure solution offered jointly by Cisco and Pure
Storage, combining the latest in compute, network, and storage hardware into a
single, integrated architecture. By providing the data protection layer for
FlashStack with IntelliSnap integration, Commvault is working with Pure Storage
and Cisco to address the ongoing shift from the traditional silo approach of
separate servers, storage, and networking equipment to a pre-designed,
pre-engineered, tested and optimized solution that provides organizations a
high performance, scalable infrastructure for deploying mission-critical
workloads. 

Commvault’s IntelliSnap integration with FlashStack is an ideal
replacement over traditional data management and protection tools that are
unable to scale and support critical enterprise applications and databases like
Oracle, VMware SAP, and Microsoft SQL and
Exchange, whether physical or virtual.

An industry leader in snapshot technology with broad support for a
wide variety of storage hardware platforms, Commvault’s IntelliSnap Technology
provides FlashStack customers an application-aware management umbrella that
automates and orchestrates the creation, retention and use of snapshots,
dramatically simplifying data protection and recovery procedures as well as
data sharing. Commvault’s Software also integrates the protection and recovery
processes by automating workflows, which significantly reduces the burden on a
customer’s staff and FlashStack. Testing and reference architectures between
Cisco and Commvault make extending FlashStack snapshot protection easy and
efficient with backup onto Cisco’s Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) as
part of the converged infrastructure stack.

With FlashStack as a leading purpose-built consolidation platform
for enterprise applications,  Commvault’s simplified data management and
optimized protection enables organizations transitioning to FlashStack to have
a smooth and seamless experience. Following deployment, Commvault also enables
FlashStack customers to protect and recover critical workloads faster, reduce
risk by eliminating manual processes, and achieve lower management overhead and
costs while leveraging Cisco S-series for their secondary storage and data
protection needs. By consolidating point products onto FlashStack, customers
are able to reduce power and cooling usage while increasing agility by easily
using snapshots for extended uses, like test/dev, devops, analytics, and
reporting.

“Through our extended collaboration with Pure Storage and Cisco to
provide Commvault’s IntelliSnap integration with FlashStack, we reinforce our
ongoing commitment to support all flash data centers to enable business
critical applications to perform faster, run more efficiently, and be more
available for our shared customers,” said Ralph Nimergood, VP of Worldwide
Channels and Alliances, Commvault. “With Commvault Software providing the data protection
layer for FlashStack,
which is built on industry-leading servers and networking components from Cisco
and purpose-built, all flash storage from Pure Storage, customers are able to
leverage a pre-designed, pre-engineered, and tested solution as a whole. Not
only does this integration make their purchase easier while reducing unnecessary
hardware acquisition costs, selecting this architecture optimizes
mission-critical applications and limits deployment times. This winning
combination of technology industry leaders gives customers the ultimate power
and efficiency in one converged solution.”

“The addition of Commvault Software completes a trifecta of
industry leading technology from Pure Storage and Cisco for our FlashStack
offering to provide organizations with a powerful, efficient, and evergreen
infrastructure solution,” said Michael Sotnick, VP of Channels and Alliances,
Pure Storage. “Commvault’s IntelliSnap Technology is an ideal fit for
FlashStack customers who are responsible for transforming their organizations
by delivering faster applications, a better user experience and smarter
analytics. By providing modernized and innovative data protection and
management from Commvault, FlashStack customers will garner an accelerated
time to value while driving an increased ROI from their infrastructure.”

The FlashStack solution with Commvault IntelliSnap integration is
available for purchase through select channel partners and resellers of
Commvault, Pure Storage and Cisco globally. Existing infrastructure partners
will benefit by expanding their target base to customers seeking to protect
critical applications and databases — such as Oracle, VMware, Microsoft SQL
and Exchange, SAP HANA and others — with a complete end-to-end validated
enterprise-class solution. This offering enables partners to sell an
industry-leading solution based on Commvault’s longstanding relationships with
Pure Storage and Cisco.
           

                                 

The Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for the FlashStack Virtual Server
Infrastructure with modern data protection through Commvault can be downloaded here. 

“Proven Commvault solutions for FlashStack creates additional
opportunities for us to address mission critical needs of our customers with
confidence,” said Ryan Sheehan, GM
Advanced Solutions & Services, SHI International Corp. “Customers are
shifting from traditional data protection point products in favor of modernized
infrastructure solutions. Bringing industry leaders Commvault, Pure Storage and
Cisco together, we are able to address organizations that need to protect data
intensive business critical applications Oracle, VMware, Microsoft SQL and
Exchange, SAP HANA and others that are the lifeblood of their business.”

“Our customers are increasingly seeing the value in moving from
inflexible, siloed data protection and management architectures, to a
holistic approach that provides them the agility and scalability they need to
not only lower risk by fully protecting all their data, but also more easily
activates this data for competitive advantage,” said Mark Melvin, CTO, ePlus
Inc. “We’re thrilled to see Commvault working together with Pure Storage and
Cisco on this FlashStack initiative to deliver a powerful, fully converged
infrastructure, making it easier for customers to implement holistic data
management strategies that reduce risk and costs, and deliver better business
agility and insights.”