Commvault IntelliSnap Snapshot Technology Validated to Work With Cisco HyperFlex

Commvault Systems, Inc. announced that its IntelliSnap snapshot technology has been tested and validated to work with Cisco Systems, Inc.‘s HyperFlex hyperconverged systems to protect application workloads, file systems and VMs without the need for third-party tools, providing customers with control, simplification and flexible architecture options that will meet their business needs.

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ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS expands many of the capabilities of the Cisco HyperFlex platform with backup and recovery. With a broade ecosystem of integrated public cloud providers, ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS plus HyperFlex is a multi-cloud platform. Delivering proven support for enterprise applications like SAP HANA – for which the company is certified – ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS allows customers to run mission-critical applications on HyperFlex with the confidence their data and applications are backed up and available. Pairing ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS with HyperFlex provides a hyper-converged, scale-out solution that delivers enterprise backup and recovery for end-to-end protection of the software-defined data center.

“The combination of solutions from Commvault and Cisco provide customers and partners with the flexibility to protect and rapidly move data to and from any Cisco infrastructure platform as business dictates,” said Wenceslao Lada, VP, WW alliances, Commvault. “The broadening of our partnership to now integrate IntelliSnap with HyperFlex is yet another example of how the two companies are tightly aligned in delivering simple, cost-effective solutions that solve real-world problems while driving revenue for our joint partners.“

“We continue to work with Commvault to help enterprise customers reduce IT and data management costs and complexity by eliminating the need for multiple software and hardware products or single-purpose tools,” said Vijay Venugopal, senior director, product management, HyperFlex, Cisco. “Achieving control and scale in a multi-cloud IT world is essential for infrastructure modernization and digital transformation. Commvault IntelliSnap aids in providing that control and extends the value of Cisco HyperFlex to help customers ensure data is available, moveable, and recoverable across the entire IT landscape.“

“In the age of big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, backup tools remain very old school. Enterprises need modern analytics to drive intelligence and improve operations, insights about application recoverability and comprehensive support for applications and multi-cloud environments ⁽¹⁾,” said Naveen Chhabra, senior analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. “Because of this, the data resiliency market is poised for significant change ⁽²⁾ and vendors like Commvault are leading the way in aligning themselves to advancing the technology.“

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⁽¹⁾ The Forrester Wave : Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2017
⁽²⁾ Forrester blog: Data Protection Vendors Are Emerging from The Stone Age, by Naveen Chhabra, November 15, 2018

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