Data Protection and

Recovery Solutions
QUICKLY RECOVER, MANAGE, AND LEVERAGE ENTERPRISE DATA

Enterprise organizations deploy a wide range of • Unified, integrated data protection and
recovery
operating systems, applications, servers, and
• Flexible options include snapshots, backup,
storage to meet their global business needs. To be archive, reporting
successful, they require more than just fast backup • Single virtual repository and index eliminates
and recovery. They must actively manage, access, data silos
and leverage data across storage tiers and wherever • Fast, one-step recovery and data access
• Supports multi-vendor storage and
it resides. And they need the freedom to deploy the
environments – no lock-in
storage and infrastructure that best meets their • Quickly recover, access, and leverage data
budget and performance requirements. across the enterprise

Commvault has also been recognized by industry analyst Gartner

as a leader for the past six years in a row.i commvau.lt/1UzbNyi
 TRADITIONAL DATA PROTECTION SUITES AND
SILOS
Traditional data protection “suites” typically consist of multiple stand-
alone products that are the result of company mergers and acquisitions.
The suites may offer snapshots, backup, archive, reporting and other
features. But they are really just separate products that were not
designed to work together and offer very limited integration (if any).

Users are often stuck with multiple products that have separate silos
of data – each with their own expensive vendor specific storage and
infrastructure. They also struggle with inconsistent user interfaces,
limited data protection options, cumbersome recovery, and data in silos
that cannot be easily accessed or leveraged. This disjointed approach
results in increased hardware, management, and service costs.

COMMVAULT – INTEGRATED DATA PROTECTION Commvault customers

AND NO SILOS! achieve 67 to 87%
Unlike traditional solutions, Commvault® data protection and recovery improvement in average
software was designed with a single code base, a single index, and is
completely integrated. Protected data is stored in a single, virtual data
recovery time for
repository, which eliminates the separate data silos that come with messages, files, and VMs
traditional snapshot, backup, archive, and reporting products.
as well as Exchange, Oracle,
As a result, only Commvault delivers a unified, automated data protection
platform that provides a single, complete view of all enterprise data SharePoint, and SQL.2
wherever it resides. In addition, Commvault supports a wide range of
industry leading storage, systems, and environments, so users are never
locked-in to a specific vendor’s expensive brand of storage.

Commvault’s integrated solutions quickly protect data across the

enterprise - including virtual and physical servers, cloud, hybrid,
NAS, remote offices, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Flexible
data protection options include Commvault Snapshot Management,
deduplicated backup, replication, and archive. In all cases, data can
be quickly recovered in a single step. In addition, Commvault software
enables organizations to actively manage and archive data across storage
tiers to reduce costs and improve performance, immediately access data
without waiting for a full recovery, and easily leverage data in support
of e-discovery, regulatory compliance and other objectives. Commvault
software also provides advanced reporting and analytics across all data
and environments, so companies can make better business decisions.

Supporting over 25 cloud storage platforms and #1 in cloud storage

integration,1 Commvault makes it easy to back up workloads, applications
and data to the cloud. Whether it’s a few applications or a petabyte of data

1 http://commvau.lt/1O7M57y
2 2 The Business Value of Commvault Software IDC 2016 US40773815 commvau.lt/1T1wPu6
on an ongoing basis, Commvault helps organizations get their data to the
cloud – and protect it – more easily and efficiently.

Commvault software provides organizations with fast, reliable

data protection and recovery, simplified management, and reduced
infrastructure costs. And organizations can gain new insight by fully
leveraging their data assets across the enterprise.

SINGLE, VIRTUAL DATA REPOSITORY

Commvault customers
At the heart of our unified, integrated architecture is the single,
virtual data repository, which supports a wide range of leading multi-
achieve 47 to 62% reduction
vendor storage across virtual and physical servers, cloud, and hybrid in weekly administrative
environments. So organizations have the freedom to deploy their favorite
servers and storage with no vendor lock-in. hours across cloud,
Data protected by Commvault’s snapshot, backup, and archive solutions disaster recovery (DR),
is stored in the virtual repository. In addition, enterprise data can be
imported from other sources via native and third party interfaces. Data
backup, snapshots,
stored in the virtual repository is automatically indexed, which provides discovery, reporting,
fast, single-step recovery, on-demand data access, and the ability to
leverage data across locations and storage tiers. This eliminates the and scripts.2
silos of data typically found with other vendor’s solutions. In addition, the
virtual repository is deduplicated for optimized capacity and performance,
and it can be encrypted for security.

VIRTUAL REPOSITORY

• Self-service access
Cloud and recovery
Deduplication
• Search and analyze
Single Index • Data management
w/Meta Data
Tape
• Reporting
• Compliance and audit
Secure Disk

Data protected by Commvault software resides in a single, virtual data

repository that supports multi-vendor storage (physical, virtual, cloud,
hybrid). Data can be quickly recovered, accessed and leveraged in a
single step.

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 COMMVAULT® SNAPSHOT MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY
Unlike traditional snapshot solutions, Commvault’s snapshot management
technology, IntelliSnap®, can efficiently protect 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 DR copies to secondary
disk, tape, or cloud storage.

In addition, workflow automation capabilities can completely automate

Commvault supports a wide
complex or highly repetitive manual data management tasks. For
range of storage arrays,
environments with non-standard configurations that are not covered by
applications and environments.
the pre-built Commvault snapshot recovery workflows, the workflow For a complete list, visit
automation tool enables administrators to quickly create custom us online.
workflows that bring together sets 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). commvau.lt/28M42Xi

Commvault software 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, administrators
can enjoy fast, automated recovery of files, objects, applications and
databases – without the hassle of complex scripts and non-integrated
recovery tools.

COMMVAULT DEDUPLICATED BACKUP

Commvault customers
Commvault provides flexible backup solutions to efficiently protect
enterprise environments. During the backup process, data is achieve 42 to 52% reduction
automatically deduplicated at the source and globally across sites and
servers. This significantly reduces the amount of required network
in annual spending on data
bandwidth, storage, and backup time compared to traditional methods. infrastructure, software,
Commvault’s integrated solutions provide granular data protection at services, and compliances.2
user defined intervals throughout the day via snapshots, along with
daily deduplicated backups. Administrators can backup snapshots, and
all backup data is indexed and stored to the virtual repository for fast,
one-step recovery. In addition, administrators can partition the virtual
repository in support of multi-tenant environments, company divisions, or
other purposes. Commvault backup software also supports a wide range
of multi-vendor storage.

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In addition, organizations can deploy Commvault Backup Appliances to
further simplify backup management, setup, and service. These turnkey,
all-in-one appliances seamlessly scale via plug-and-play expansion
to meet the needs of remote offices to large enterprise data centers.
Companies can go from power up to backup in less than one hour, and
enjoy peace of mind with Commvault as the single point of contact for all
hardware and software support.

APPLICATION DATA MANAGEMENT

Enterprise organizations face many challenges when managing
the lifecycle of applications and data from development and test,
to production, and finally retirement. Critical and large application
workloads must be available when needed and quickly protected in case
of a disaster. Traditional solutions often require storage array replication,
which can be expensive to maintain and manage. And orchestrating
replication copies, along with moving data between production and
development environments can be extremely complex.

Commvault dramatically simplifies application data management

across all three phases of the application lifecycle. Commvault software
IDC: Quantifying the Business
simplifies copy data management for developers and DevOps managers
Value of Commvault
by automating workload orchestration, providing self-service provisioning
Software: Worldwide
for developers and eliminating unnecessary duplicate copies. Application Customer Survey Analysis
recovery for critical production systems is immediate and provides
granular self-service access to data, even to the file or database table Commvault solutions have
level. These same production applications can later be retired and produced a concrete value for
have older information off-loaded to keep production systems running their customers through the
at maximum efficiency while addressing longer term data access and current chaotic technology
compliance requirements. landscape.

Commvault software creates a more agile dev/test environment, making

organizations more agile while providing the confidence that critical
application data is always available so that business processes are never
interrupted. commvau.lt/1T1wPu6

ARCHIVE AND REPORTING

Most organizations rely on separate products to solve data protection,
archive and reporting needs, causing management headaches and
inefficient data silos that are costly and difficult to leverage.

Commvault has the industry’s first converged process for backup, archive
and reporting from a single data collection and common infrastructure.
It enables organizations to solve massive file, folder, and Microsoft
Exchange email growth challenges with zero footprint archiving and no

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 additional overhead. Commvault software 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 also includes integrated reporting and advanced analytics so that companies can leverage their data
in support of eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, and other business needs. As always, all data managed and
protected by Commvault software is retained in the virtual repository so it can be quickly recovered, accessed, and
leveraged when needed.

INDUSTRY LEADING DATA PROTECTION AND RECOVERY

Commvault’s unified, integrated data protection and recovery solutions are widely deployed by leading Fortune
500 organizations worldwide. Commvault has also been recognized by industry analyst Gartner as a leader in the
Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software - for the past six years in a row.i 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.

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. Learn more at commvault.com/backup.

i “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software” by Dave Russell, Robert Rhame, Pushan Rinnen. June 2016. Gartner
does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be con-
strued as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of
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