Commvault Announces ScaleProtect TM with Cisco UCS for Scale-Out Data Protection for the Enterprise

SINGAPORE
– October 25, 2017 – Commvault (NASDAQ:
CVLT), the leader in data protection today announced ScaleProtectTM with
Cisco UCS, a powerfully unique scale-out data protection solution
combining Commvault HyperScale™ Software with Cisco’s Unified
Computing System (UCS). ScaleProtect™ with Cisco UCS provides
enterprises a single, integrated solution that delivers infrastructure
simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing
secondary data, while replacing legacy back-up tools with a modern
cloud-enabled data management solution.

With 45-60% of today’s
data consumed by secondary workloads according to a report by IDC[1], enterprises face
increasing demand to find new value in secondary storage as a means to drive
key business and IT transformation initiatives, while keeping costs within
control and maintaining visibility into their data. ScaleProtect TM with
Cisco UCS supports this environment by providing a unified, modern
data protection and management platform that delivers cloud-like services
on-premises. The solution also enables enterprises to eliminate costly existing
point solutions that do not scale and lack visibility into secondary data.

“Unprecedented
data growth, multi-cloud complexity, fragmented backup silos, sprawling
applications, regulatory compliance, and the need for analytics continue to
pressure companies,” said Archana Venkatraman, Research Manager at IDC.
“Many organizations are finding that multiple, point-based data management
tools are adding to complexities affecting storage performance, efficiency, and
costs. Consolidating all secondary storage workloads (from backup to test and
development) in a scale-out infrastructure, with converged data protection,
native cloud integration, and automated DR capabilities can bring real benefits
to organizations and make data a business enabler.”

Today’s announcement
builds upon the recent launch of
Commvault HyperScale™ Technology, two powerful, cloud-ready data infrastructure
offerings – an all-in-one appliance and a reference architecture model – that
provide customers with a new level of management simplicity and scale for
managing secondary data on premises. As the first solution launched as a
Commvault HyperScale ™ Software reference architecture, ScaleProtect
with Cisco UCS delivers these benefits as well as seamless integration
with storage arrays, hypervisors, applications and the full range of cloud
provider solutions to support the most diverse and dynamic enterprise and
hybrid cloud environments.

“The combination of
Cisco and Commvault continue to deliver world class Data Protection solutions
to our customers leveraging our extensive Data Center Portfolio,” said Satinder
Sethi, VP, Unified Computing System & Datacenter Solutions, Cisco. “For the
new Commvault ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS solution, Cisco brings a proven
Fabric Based Data Center architecture and turn key management that has
delivered exceptional value to our customers and partners in their data center
modernization journey.”

ScaleProtect TM with
Cisco UCS,
which continues the growing relationship between Cisco and Commvault, is
available to customers through the Cisco SolutionsPlus program and will be
available directly from Cisco’s Global Price List, making it easy for Cisco and
its powerful network of resellers to sell and deliver to the market. Commvault
joins the Cisco SolutionsPlus Program at a time when enterprise and midmarket
customers are facing increased data challenges fueled by the exponential growth
in the amount of data to store, manage and analyze, and the ever-increasing
risk of security breaches. Commvault mitigates this challenge through its
robust data platform that defends against the growing variety of threats, while
providing customers the flexibility to reliably manage data stored in the data
center and in the cloud.

“We
are glad to see Commvault’s powerful scale-out data protection software for the
enterprise is now available as a Cisco SKU through ScaleProtect™ with Cisco
UCS®,” said Scott Miller, Sr. Director of Data Center, World Wide Technology.
“Today’s launch extends on Commvault’s successful relationship with Cisco to
help customers easily protect, manage and optimize data on Cisco solutions such
as Cisco UCS, Cisco HyperFlex, and FlashStack. We look forward to bringing this
new, uniquely-bundled solution to market as a game-changing alternative to
existing scale-out solutions that have failed to deliver on
expectations.”

ScaleProtect TM with
Cisco UCS provides
customers the following benefits and capabilities:

·  Agility, resiliency and availability of data
and applications, both on-premises and in the cloud

·  Setup, management and upgrade
simplicity

·  Commvault Data Platform’s
high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, including simply powerful
automation, orchestration and self-service

·  Powerful new scale-out infrastructure
combined with data management and protection, enabling systems consolidation
and elimination of point-product solution silos

·  Modular scalability to grow
with the needs of the business, including non-disruptive capacity and
performance expansion

·  Built-in resiliency
(erasure-coding with no single point of failure)

·  Streamlined support,
centralized patch management, and active monitoring

·  Better TCO versus legacy
scale-up solutions with lower procurement cost & operational overhead

·  Scale-out capacity that can start small and
scale to PetaBytes seamlessly

“We
are excited that the industry leader in data center infrastructure and the
industry leader in data protection have worked together to create a solution
that delivers a new level of simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility
and scale for managing secondary data,” said N. Robert Hammer, Chairman,
President and CEO, Commvault. “ScaleProtect™ with UCS, the powerful
combination of Commvault HyperScale™ Technology and the computing and
networking power of Cisco UCS, provides unparalleled performance and cost
effectiveness for a range of use cases, including data center consolidation,
infrastructure modernization, digital transformation, growing multiple location
footprints, and business-critical application and dev/test performance.”

Commvaults
HyperScale Technology bring scale-out infrastructure to the Commvault Data
Platform and seamlessly integrates with storage arrays, hypervisors,
applications and the full range of cloud provider solutions to support the most
diverse and dynamic environments.  Customers can consume Commvault
HyperScale Technology in one of two ways: Commvault HyperScale Appliance and
Commvault HyperScale Software.

In
support of true hybrid IT environments, Commvault HyperScale Technology is
uniquely positioned in the market to protect and securely move workloads across
any type of infrastructure including public cloud, private cloud and
on-premises.

Commvault
is a leading provider of data management solutions, helping companies worldwide
activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform
modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and
through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault
solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection
and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault
has earned accolades from customers and third party influencers for its
technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and trusted
expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business
agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by
companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on
premise, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided
as-a-service. Commvault employs more than 2,700 highly skilled individuals
across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is
headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more
about Commvault — and how it can help make your data work for you — visit www.commvault.com

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[1] *IDC, Copy
Data Management is Not Management of Copy Data, June 2016, IDC #US41335616