Commvault and Huawei Extending Partnership

Commvault Systems, Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. plan to create a joint lab in Chengdu, China that will be used to develop backup, recovery, archive and cloud solutions based on both companies technologies.

Commvault SVP, WW sales Ron Miiller, and Huawei president, storage product line, Ruiqi Fan were both present for the signing at the opening of Huawei Connect, Huawei’s integrated conference for the ICT ecosystem. Chengdu is the HQs of Huawei’s storage business.

The two companies will commit personnel, software and hardware to the lab, which features both a testing and development center and an executive briefing center. In addition to ensuring compatibility between the companies’ latest products, work at the lab will focus on incubating, testing and demonstrating cloud backup, Data Protection-as-a-Service and other solutions that extend the companies’ ability to address their customers’ critical data protection and management needs.

The joint lab further expands Huawei and Commvault’s partnership, which was initially established three years ago when Huawei agreed to distribute Commvault’s software with its OceanStor storage systems. After that initial agreement the firms collaborated to create an integrated offering with bundled service agreements. More recently, they started to collaborate for the Huawei Cloud Data Center Offerings, which include Data Protection-as-a-Service capabilities.

Worldwide customer response to the partnership has been positive – for example, Brennan IT announced that it using Commvault Software and OceanStor to deliver a scalable and flexible Backup-as-a-Service solution to its customers in Australia.

“Over the last few years Commvault and Huawei joint backup solution has been very successful, and we are very pleased to announce the establishment of the joint lab,” said Ruigi Fan, president, storage production line, Huawei.  “This represents a significant milestone on the path towards even closer collaboration. This lab will function as a platform for our continuous joint innovation, incubating Data Protection-as-a-Service and data management solutions.“

Gartner named Commvault a leader for the sixth straight year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software, and also named Huawei the fastest growing vendor of External Controller Based (ECB) storage in the world in 2015.

“We’ve been very impressed with Huawei’s advanced storage technology, strong customer relationships and global footprint as we have expanded Commvault’s presence in both China and around the world over the past five years,” said Miiller. “This new lab further strengthens the Commvault-Huawei partnership by helping us develop new solutions that maximize the value of our customers’ data management and storage investments.“