CommVault Enhances Data Management Capabilities for Microsoft

CommVault has enhanced its support for Microsoft Corp. data and applications with its new Simpana 8 software. It includes advances in recovery management, data reduction, virtual server management, and content organization.

CommVault Simpana 8, a singular, unified data management platform has been tightly integrated with Microsoft’s key applications to provide superior data and information management for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Active Directory. Customers can meet a broad spectrum of their discovery and recovery management requirements while eliminating the need for myriad point level products. With Simpana 8 software’s tight integration with Microsoft applications, customers gain significant advantages in storage management cost reduction, broader functionality and overall operational efficiency.

Simpana 8 Software Provides a Wide Range of Data Management Benefits to Microsoft Customers

• Records Management: New heterogeneous Records Management capabilities with the Records Center site, a key component of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Customers can leverage the on-line, near-line, and off-line content management capabilities of Simpana software to enable a heterogeneous Records Management solution.
• FAST Integration: Simpana 8 software’s Content Director feature embeds the powerful Microsoft FAST Indexing Engine to granularly manage data based on content in Exchange Server 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
• Data Reduction: With the industry’s first global embedded software deduplication, Simpana 8 software offers a holistic approach to data deduplication that spans both disk and tape tiers of storage. CommVault extends this feature for Microsoft users by enabling a simple 64-bit Windows Server 2008, with commodity disk, to be a deduplication target at a much more attractive price than a comparable dedicated appliance. Further, CommVault’s unique, end-to-end approach expands the benefits of block-level deduplication for Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 across all backup and archive copies within an organization, resulting in cost-efficient scaling and performance across the entire data management infrastructure.
• Backup and Recovery and Content Management: CommVault software can now provide backup, recovery, indexing and search capabilities for Office Communications Server 2007.
• Virtualization Management: Simpana 8 software provides additional management capabilities for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology environments including the ability to restore data backed up from VMware directly to Hyper-V.
• Performance Enhancements for Office SharePoint Server 2007: Simpana 8 software enhances the performance for Office SharePoint Server 2007 data management including site, granular, and content-indexed data from backups.
• Discovery Capabilities: Enhanced data mining capabilities for Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 leverage the rich snapshot infrastructure of Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service.

“Microsoft is committed to delivering innovative products and services that meet our customers’ evolving needs,” said Greg Kirchoff, director of Microsoft’s Global ISV and Strategic Alliances Group. “By working with companies like CommVault, we enable our joint customers to take advantage of industry-leading solutions that optimize their use of Microsoft technologies.”

“Simpana 8 software is a significant step forward for Microsoft customers who have come to rely on CommVault for their data management needs. We’re excited to work with Microsoft to deliver innovative features such as Records Management for the Records Center site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and newly added functionality for Office Communications Server 2007. With CommVault embedded software deduplication, users can enable a simple Windows Server to be an extremely cost-effective deduplication device. The combination of the features and enhancements in Simpana 8 software will make it easier and more efficient for customers to manage their Microsoft environments,” said Randy De Meno, chief evangelist and Microsoft Partnership for CommVault.