Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 24 | Page 73

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business “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.” Commvault HyperScale Appliance: Evolving secondary storage to a modern cloud-ready scale-out approach delivered in an easy to acquire and deploy, all-in-one appliance offering 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, virtualisation, backup and recovery, full lifecycle data management and analytics into a single platform across the data centre 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 www.intelligentcio.com 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 centres through one 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 an easy-to-use solution for data management and storage with a streamlined support for the entire solution. With Commvault’s 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 virtualised environments coverage, and with powerful orchestration and automation required for true enterprise- scale deployments. Commvault HyperScale Software and Validated Reference Architectures: Powerful scale-out data protection with the freedom to choose hardware preferences from leading technology companies Commvault HyperScale Software is a unique scale-out infrastructure based on customer hardware preferences, enabling organisations to choose hardware configuration sizes and models from leading technology companies, including these initial programme 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. “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 centres to enable greater operational efficiency, resiliency and scalability.” n INTELLIGENTCIO 73