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CommVault Today With 1,300 employees and 13,500 customers

After 15 years of existence

In today’s data-intensive environments, organizations continue to seek innovative solutions that increase operational efficiencies, lower costs and mitigate risks. For the past 15 years, CommVault Systems, Inc. has been at the forefront of this effort, guided by the company’s Solving Forward vision of data management that transforms the way information assets are protected, stored, recovered, retained and accessed.

As a result, the company enjoys a record of delivering modern data management software with the intelligence, automation and scalability to manage information across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Today, with 1,300 employees, 13,500 global customers, a growing network of technology and reseller partners, and 46 offices worldwide, CommVault celebrates its anniversary. This 15-year milestone is recognized by industry and customer support of CommVault Simpana software, which embodies a single-platform, policy-driven approach to solving IT challenges. CommVault alleviates the problems caused by competitive point products by offering a single view of all enterprise information, regardless of where it resides.

"CommVault has evolved its software by continually focusing on innovative solutions to the ever-increasing data protection and information management requirements of our customers and partners," said N. Robert Hammer, CommVault’s chairman, president and CEO. "I am extremely proud of our accomplishments over the past 15 years, as well as the company’s ability to redefine modern data management and the role it can play in driving significant competitive advantages for our customers. I am thankful to all our customers, employees and partners, many of whom have been with us since the beginning. As the industry continues to transform, we will remain true to our ‘solving forward’ philosophy, which enables CommVault to stay out in front and anticipate emerging data and information management demands."

News Facts

  • CommVault celebrates 15 years of technology and customer traction worldwide.
  • Born as a development group within Bell Labs and later designated as a strategic business unit of AT&T Network Systems, CommVault was incorporated in 1986. Since that time, over 13,500 global organizations have standardized on CommVault Simpana software to improve their data and information management strategies. Among this growing list are: ABB (China) Limited, BAIDU, Bauer Group UK, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Chinese Construction Limited Liability Company, Dyckerhoff, Johnston Carmichael, Just Energy, KremsmullerIndustrieanlagenbau KG, Mediterranean Shipping Company NL, Nippon Paint (China) Co. Ltd., Omniplex World Services Corporation, Peking University, Premier Global Services (PGi), Sany Group, Silver Birch Hotels, The State Laboratory, Ireland, and WISDRI Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd.
  • A steady stream of industry accolades and awards reinforces CommVault’s market leadership. Most recently, the company was named a ‘champion’ in Info-Tech Research Group’s Select Enterprise Backup Software Vendor Landscape and in December 2010, CommVault grabbed the top spot in the DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide.
  • Also, CommVault was positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant in Gartner Inc.’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise, Disk-Based Backup and Recovery.
  • CommVault continues to work closely with technology partners including Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, Fujitsu, Bull, and McAfee to deliver solutions powered by Simpana software. Around the globe, CommVault also has developed a reseller channel, including the addition of its 400th active partner to its North American PartnerAdvantage program. The company’s commitment to distribution partnerships with Avnet and Arrow Electronics play an increasing role in accelerating sales.
  • CommVault has introduced many technologies and industry firsts, including global embedded deduplication, deduplication to tape, ‘zero impact’ backup, an enterprise storage platform built on Microsoft Windows, and the integration of data classification with other mission-critical data management functions for enhanced Information Lifecycle Management.
  • Offering a single platform approach to data and information management, CommVault provides unified capabilities for backup and recovery, replication, archive, enterprise search, as well as eDiscovery and compliance workflow. Technology advancements, including SnapProtect technology, global embedded deduplication, content organization and indexing and streamlined migration from competitive products, further distinguish Simpana software.
  • Based in the U.S., CommVault has offices around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Peter Hawkins, IT manager for Cystic Fibrosis Trust, said: "At the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, our day-to-day fundraising, donations and research efforts drive increasing amounts of unstructured archived file data and rapid email growth. These aspects, coupled with frequent search requests by our Human Resources department of internal users or custodians, often make the management and discovery of our data and information a challenge. By switching to CommVault Simpana File and Email archiving software, however, we’ve been able to bring our production file and email content retention under control from a cost and risk perspective, while content indexing over 3 million emails and 1 million files. Now, with Simpana journaling and discovery capabilities, we’re better able to meet email compliance regulations without impacting our IT infrastructure and facilitate searches across our organization in seconds. With Simpana software, we’ve achieved some pretty significant storage and efficiency gains, which help us demonstrate both IT and business value in terms of improved IT operations and enhanced end user access to business-critical information."

Peter Sowerby, senior enterprise data administrator for Just Energy who states that IT is the backbone of the business as, said: "Just Energy is in a state of constant growth.  We have to be fast, nimble and ready to go. CommVault Simpana software provides us with the tools to make sure that our data is protected at all times. Simpana software’s replication capabilities help us to continually backup more without having to make major hardware acquisitions to accommodate that growth, thus allowing us to be a lot more flexible in our data management. In the end, Simpana software offers both time and cost savers all the way around."

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