Commvault HyperScaleTM Software & Commvault HyperScaleTM Appliance Modernize On-Premises Customer Environments with Powerful Scale-Out Data Protection Infrastructure

Singapore – October
19, 2017 – Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery,
archive and the cloud, today launched Commvault HyperScaleTM Appliance
and Commvault HyperScaleTM Software, two powerful,
cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings that provide customers with
on-premises simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for
managing secondary data. Flexible to fit a wide range of customer needs and
environments, the solutions are available as an all-in-one appliance or a
reference architecture model enabling organizations to have the freedom to
choose their hardware provider to meet their specific requirements as they
scale for the future.

Commvault’s HyperScale
Software solutions bring
scale-out infrastructure to the Commvault
Data Platform and seamlessly
integrate 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 Software solutions in one of two
ways: Commvault HyperScale Appliance and Commvault HyperScale Software.

In support of true
hybrid IT environments, Commvault HyperScale Software 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. The
Commvault HyperScale technology leverages a built-in operating environment,
virtualization, and storage technologies from Red Hat to provide a robust,
enterprise-grade foundation.

“Building upon our
impeccable track record of innovation in data protection, we are excited to
introduce this unique and highly-differentiated infrastructure offering to the
market to replace outdated scale-up architectures and point products that have
proved to be inefficient and long overdue for change,” said N. Robert Hammer,
chairman, president and CEO of Commvault.  “Commvault HyperScale Appliance
and Commvault HyperScale Software are infrastructure options that provide
flexible models for consumption while helping customers replace costly legacy
hardware, avoid vendor lock in, and gain modern agility, flexibility and
cloud-economics that were previously unavailable.”

The launch of
Commvault HyperScale Appliance and Commvault HyperScale Software addresses the
ongoing shift enterprises are making towards secondary storage as a means to
drive key business and IT transformation initiatives. Commvault believes that
approximately 70% of customer data is consumed as a secondary copy, and
therefore, these HyperScale solutions are able to meet the increasing
demands of the secondary storage market by delivering customers aunified, modern data protection and management
platform that delivers cloud-like services on-premises.

The
demands of secondary storage and the need to find new value from secondary copy
data is driving customers to find alternatives to how to store and manage ever
increasing data workloads and move away from traditional “scale up” purpose
build appliances. Commvault is uniquely positioned to offer customers
true enterprise-scale coverage with an integrated modern scale-out approach to
meet these demands while adding market-leading data management software fully
integrated into the strategy. 

“Yesterday’s
architectures for enterprise data protection are simply inadequate for the
kinds of agility and efficiency that modern organizations of all sizes are
demanding,” said Jason Buffington, principal data protection analyst, ESG.
“Commvault has a long history of continually innovating ahead of market demand
in response to the ever evolving and heightening data protection landscape. As
such, it is not surprising to see Commvault disrupting the status quo of legacy
appliances and antiquated approaches, as well as heading off niche
alternatives, with its HyperScale offerings.”

For
customers wanting an all-in-one solution from acquisition to deployment,
Commvault has introduced Commvault HyperScale Appliance, a highly
differentiated data infrastructure solution that tightly integrates compute,
storage, networking, virtualization, backup and recovery, full lifecycle data
management and analytics into a single platform across the data center and in
the cloud. Built on Commvault’s industry-leading technology, it enables
customers to significantly decrease complexity and cost while increasing both
scalability and IT agility. Because this solution is pre-designed, built, sold
and supported by Commvault, customers save time in hardware acquisition,
installation and integration, daily management and patching and updating.

Commvault
HyperScale Appliance is also an ideal solution to protect and manage data
across multiple remote offices, branch
offices and data centers through one
powerful scale-out solution.  As a result, Commvault has delivered an
appliance with data capacities ranging from 32tbs up to 80tbs (usable storage)
with the ability to scale out in any number of configurations to meet customer
requirements well into the multi-PBs range. Customers gain a simple,
easy-to-use solution for data management and storage with a streamlined,
single-call support for the entire solution.

With
Commvault’s unique subscription pricing approach, customers gain economical
support and hardware refresh over the life of the appliance’s deployment. The
new Commvault HyperScale Appliance outpaces the limited offerings of new market
entrants by combining the most modern approaches to scale-out data protection,
with the broadest enterprise application, file systems, hypervisor and
virtualized environments coverage, and with simply powerful orchestration and
automation required for true enterprise-scale deployments.

Commvault HyperScale
Software is a unique scale-out
infrastructure based on customer hardware preferences, enabling organizations
to choose hardware configuration sizes and models from leading technology
companies, including these initial program participants:  Fujitsu, Cisco,
Lenovo, HPE, Super Micro Computer, Huawei and Dell-EMC. Through the consumption
of Commvault HyperScale Software, customers receive tested configurations that
provide validated designs complemented by best-practice configurations. This
simplified approach helps enterprises match hardware configurations and
capacity to their secondary storage needs, while accelerating ROI, reducing
complexity and adding greater customer value.

Commvault’s HyperScale
Software solutions provide customers the following unique benefits:

·
Agility, resiliency
and availability to on-premises data and applications

·
Simple to setup,
manage and upgrade

·
Modular scale to grow
with the needs of the business; Non-disruptive capacity and  performance
expansion

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

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

·
Streamlined Support
from Commvault; Centralized patch management; Active monitoring

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

·
Scale out capacity to
multi-10s+ PBs

·
Powerful new scale-out
opportunities combined with data management and protection, utilization and
movement enable systems consolidation and the elimination of point-product
solution silos

“Data protection can
be a key capability for any hyperconverged infrastructure stack, and we’re
pleased to have contributed Red Hat’s powerful, flexible open technologies to
help Commvault bring Commvault HyperScale to the enterprise,” said Ranga
Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat. “Commvault
has developed an enterprise-ready,
cloud-scale solution that can help customers to transform their data centers to
enable greater operational efficiency, resiliency and scalability.”

The Commvault
HyperScale Software and Commvault HyperScale Appliance are available directly
through Commvault or through the company’s global ecosystem of partners. As a
single, scale-out infrastructure solution offered in two ways, Commvault
HyperScale Software solutions are configured to make it easy for partners to
quote, sell, support and implement.

“Sirius recognizes the
importance of empowering IT to be more flexible in meeting industry
requirements,” said Darren Gourley, vice president of Infrastructure Solutions
for Sirius. “We look forward to offering Commvault’s HyperScale solution to our
clients as a unique alternative for managing their secondary storage and
enabling them to transform internal data centers and services to achieve
cloud-like scale, flexibility, simplicity and economics.”

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