Commvault Metallic SaaS-Based Data Protection Solutions in EMEA

Commvault Systems, Inc. announced its Metallic Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions are available across the EMEA region.

These enterprise-grade offerings including Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery, Metallic Endpoint Backup & Recovery and Metallic Core Backup & Recovery, are available in the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden. With this expanded availability, customers in these regions are able to address growing business concerns around cost, scalability, and security as they protect critical data.  

For EMEA businesses in particular, Metallic Backup & Recovery has been engineered to offer data protection in support of customers’ Data Sovereignty and GDPR compliance efforts.

To be GDPR compliant, companies must meet standards for accountability, security, confidentiality, and resilience. Metallic offerings deliver the capability to monitor compliance policies and the amount and types of data stored, providing users with the expertise and capabilities to stringent GDPR compliance obligations. Through an engineering collaboration with Microsoft, Metallic is able to integrate Microsoft Azure’s secure and compliant platform offerings and tools that help to address GDPR compliance at a foundational level.

“The increase of cloud adoption by customers in EMEA, especially in early adopter markets like Israel, Benelux and the UK, along with the growth in adoption of solutions like Microsoft 365 demonstrates the increasing comfort with and demand for SaaS,” said Manoj Nair, GM, Metallic. “The EU has established rigorous standards for data privacy, compliance and governance, which differ even across member countries. Metallic helps ease those concerns by helping customers ensure full compliance with privacy laws like GDPR.“

Designed for the modern enterprise as a cloud-native solution, Metallic uses Azure and Commvault’s data protection platform to deliver BaaS solutions with single pane of glass management across SaaS, on-prem, public cloud native, and hybrid workloads.

“Commvault’s Metallic solutions portfolio is helping to lead the next phase of evolution in the BaaS market with Microsoft Azure,” said Casey McGee, VP, Microsoft global ISV sales. “Storing and securing critical data is essential for business success today, and Metallic provides customers who are adopting cloud and BaaS technology simple, secure and trusted cloud-delivered data protection for their hybrid environments.“

According to Archana Venkatraman, associate research director, cloud data management, IDC Europe, security is also a major IT concern. Easy to use, integrated, automated, and cost-efficient data management solutions and integrated cloud storage service for backup in the cloud can help companies adopt cloud storage with control and protection vs. cyberattacks.

“There is a real pressure to leverage the cloud to reduce capital spend, improve resilience, recovery, and data security as the risk of ransomware and cyberattack is sharply increasing. IDC research shows that 93% of organizations have been the targets of malware attacks in 2019, with a majority suffering successful attacks or multiple attacks,” Venkatraman said. “With the right cloud data protection strategy, companies can reduce the time-to-value, which i critical to quickly become ransomware resilient in the wake of rising attacks. It’s clear that there is a broad need for SaaS-based solutions that meet these needs not only in EMEA, but across the globe.“

Metallic is available in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many countries across Europe through firm’s resellers and distribution partners. In addition, the company continues to dedicate some of its talents to support its efforts in EMEA, most recently with the appointment of Shai Nuni as the new VP of Metallic in the region. he has been tapped to lead and expand the company’s dedicated EMEA sales and technical team.

Customers can also try-and-buy Metallic solutions on the Microsoft Azure Market Place on a monthly or annual subscription basis.

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