Commvault Reveals HyperScale Software and Appliance

Commvault Systems, Inc. launched HyperScale Appliance and HyperScale Software, two cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings that provide customers with on-premises simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing secondary data.

Flexible to fit a range of customer needs and environments, the solutions are available as an all-in-one appliance or a reference architecture model enabling organizations to have the freedom to choose their hardware provider to meet their specific requirements as they scale for the future.

The company’s HyperScale Software solutions bring scale-out infrastructure to the Data Platform cloud and integrate with storage arrays, hypervisors, applications and the full range of cloud provider solutions to support the most diverse and dynamic environments. Customers can consume the firm’s HyperScale Software solutions in one of two ways: HyperScale Appliance and Software.

In support of true hybrid IT environments, HyperScale Software is positioned in the market to protect and securely move workloads across any type of infrastructure including public cloud, private cloud and on-premises. The HyperScale technology leverages a built-in operating environment, virtualization, and storage technologies from Red Hat, Inc. to provide a enterprise-grade foundation.

“Building upon our impeccable track record of innovation in data protection, we are excited to introduce this unique and highly-differentiated infrastructure offering to the market to replace outdated scale-up architectures and point products that have proved to be inefficient and long overdue for change,” said N. Robert Hammer, chairman, president and CEO, Commvault. “Commvault HyperScale Appliance and Commvault HyperScale Software are infrastructure options that provide flexible models for consumption while helping customers replace costly legacy hardware, avoid vendor lock in, and gain modern agility, flexibility and cloud-economics that were previously unavailable.“

Scale-out: Modernizing data architectures
The launch of HyperScale Appliance and software addresses the ongoing shift enterprises are making towards secondary storage as a means to drive key business and IT transformation initiatives.

The company believes that approximately 70% of customer data is consumed as a secondary copy, and therefore, these HyperScale solutions are able to meet the increasing demands of the secondary storage market by delivering customers a unified data protection and management platform that delivers cloud-like services on-premises.

The demand of secondary storage and the need to find new value from secondary copy data is driving customers to find alternatives to how to store and manage ever increasing data workloads and move away from traditional ‘scale up’ purpose build appliances. The firm is positioned to offer customers true enterprise-scale coverage with an integrated modern scale-out approach to meet these demands while adding data management software integrated into the strategy.

“Yesterday’s architectures for enterprise data protection are simply inadequate for the kinds of agility and efficiency that modern organizations of all sizes are demanding,” said Jason Buffington, principal data protection analyst, ESG. “Commvault has a long history of continually innovating ahead of market demand in response to the ever evolving and heightening data protection landscape. As such, it is not surprising to see Commvault disrupting the status quo of legacy appliances and antiquated approaches, as well as heading off niche alternatives, with its HyperScale offerings.“

HyperScale Appliance: Evolving secondary storage to cloud-ready scale-out approach
delivered in an easy to acquire and deploy, all-in-one appliance offering.
For customers wanting an all-in-one solution from acquisition to deployment, the company has introduced HyperScale Appliance, a differentiated data infrastructure solution that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking, virtualization, backup and recovery, full lifecycle data management and analytics into a single platform across the data center and in the cloud. Built on the firm’s technology, it enables customers to decrease complexity and cost while increasing both scalability and IT agility. Because this solution is pre-designed, built, sold and supported by the company, customers save time in hardware acquisition, installation and integration, daily management and patching and updating.

HyperScale Appliance is also a solution to protect and manage data across multiple remote offices, branch offices and data centers through one scale-out solution. As a result, the company has delivered an appliance with data capacities ranging from 32TB up to 80TB (usable storage) with the ability to scale out in any number of configurations to meet customer requirements well into the multi-petabytes range. Customers gain a simple solution for data management and storage with a streamlined, single-call support for the entire solution.

With the firm’s subscription pricing approach, customers gain economical support and hardware refresh over the life of the appliance’s deployment. The HyperScale Appliance outpaces the limited offerings of new market entrants by combining a modern approaches to scale-out data protection, with the broadest enterprise application, file systems, hypervisor and virtualized environments coverage, and with simply orchestration and automation required for true enterprise-scale deployments.

HyperScale Software and Validated Reference Architectures: Scale-out data protection with the freedom to choose hardware preferences from technology companies.
The HyperScale Software is a scale-out infrastructure based on customer hardware preferences, enabling organizations to choose hardware configuration sizes and models from technology companies, including these initial program participants: Fujitsu, Cisco, Lenovo, HPE, Super Micro Computer, Huawei and Dell-EMC. Through the consumption of the HyperScale Software, customers receive tested configurations that provide validated designs complemented by configurations. This simplified approach helps enterprises match hardware configurations and capacity to their secondary storage needs, while accelerating ROI, reducing complexity and adding greater customer value.

HyperScale Software solutions provide customers following benefits:

• Agility, resiliency and availability to on-premises data and applications

• Simple to setup, manage and upgrade

• Modular scale to grow with the needs of the business; Non-disruptive capacity and performance expansion

• Built-in resiliency (erasure-coding with no single point of failure),

• Includes the company’s Data Platform’ HA and DR capabilities, and it’s simply automation, orchestration and self-service capabilities

• Streamlined support from the firm; centralized patch management; active monitoring

• Better TCO versus legacy scale-up solutions with lower procurement cost and operational overhead

• Scale out capacity to multi-10s+ petabytes

• Scale-out opportunities combined with data management and protection, utilization and movement enable systems consolidation and the elimination of point-product solution silos

“Data protection can be a key capability for any hyperconverged infrastructure stack, and we’re pleased to have contributed Red Hat’s powerful, flexible open technologies to help Commvault bring Commvault HyperScale to the enterprise,” said Ranga Rangachari, VP and GM, storage, Red Hat. “Commvault has developed an enterprise-ready, cloud-scale solution that can help customers to transform their data centers to enable greater operational efficiency, resiliency and scalability.“

Tuned for channel, HyperScale is easy for partners to sell
The HyperScale Software and Appliance are available directly through the firm or through the company’s global ecosystem of partners. As a single, scale-out infrastructure solution offered in two ways, HyperScale Software solutions are configured to make it easy for partners to quote, sell, support and implement.

“Sirius recognizes the importance of empowering IT to be more flexible in meeting industry requirements,” said Darren Gourley, VP, infrastructure solutions, Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. “We look forward to offering Commvault’s HyperScale solution to our clients as a unique alternative for managing their secondary storage and enabling them to transform internal data centers and services to achieve cloud-like scale, flexibility, simplicity and economics.“

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