Commvault ScaleProtect With Cisco UCS for Scale-Out Data Protection for Enterprise

Commvault Systems, Inc. announced ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS, a scale-out data protection solution combining the its HyperScale software with Cisco Technology, Inc.‘s Unified Computing System (UCS).

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It provides enterprises a single, integrated solution that delivers infrastructure simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing secondary data, while replacing legacy backup tools with a modern cloud-enabled data management solution.

With 45-60% of today’s data consumed by secondary workloads according to a report by IDC ^[1], enterprises face increasing demand to find new value in secondary storage as a means to drive key business and IT transformation initiatives, while keeping costs within control and maintaining visibility into their data. ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS supports this environment by providing an unified data protection and management platform that delivers cloud-like services on-premises. The solution also enables enterprises to eliminate costly existing point solutions that do not scale and lack visibility into secondary data.

“Unprecedented data growth, multi-cloud complexity, fragmented backup silos, sprawling applications, regulatory compliance, and the need for analytics continue to pressure companies,” said Archana Venkatraman, research manager, IDC. “Many organisations are finding that multiple, point-based data management tools are adding to complexities affecting storage performance, efficiency, and costs. Consolidating all secondary storage workloads (from backup to test and development) in a scale-out infrastructure, with converged data protection, native cloud integration, and automated DR capabilities can bring real benefits to organisations and make data a business enabler.“

This announcement builds upon the recent launch of company’s HyperScale technology, two cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings – an all-in-one appliance and a reference architecture model – that provide customers with a new level of management simplicity and scale for managing secondary data on premises. As the first solution launched as a HyperScale software reference architecture, ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS delivers these benefits as well as seamless integration with storage arrays, hypervisors, applications and the full range of cloud provider solutions to support diverse and dynamic enterprise and hybrid cloud environments.

“The combination of Cisco and Commvault continue to deliver world class Data Protection solutions to our customers leveraging our extensive Data Center Portfolio,” said Satinder Sethi, VP, Unified Computing system and datacenter solutions, Cisco. “For the new Commvault ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS solution, Cisco brings a proven Fabric Based Data Centre architecture and turn key management that has delivered exceptional value to our customers and partners in their data center modernisation journey.“

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ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS available to customers through Cisco and network of resellers
ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS, which continues the growing relationship between the two companies, is available to customers through the Cisco ‘SolutionsPlus program’ and will be available directly from Cisco’s Global Price List, making it for Cisco and its network of resellers to sell and deliver to the market. The firm joins the Cisco SolutionsPlus Program at a time when enterprise and mid-market customers are facing increased data challenges fueled by the exponential growth in the amount of data to store, manage and analyse, and the ever-increasing risk of security breaches. Commvault mitigates this challenge through its data platform that defends against the growing variety of threats, while providing customers the flexibility to reliably manage data stored in the data centre and in the cloud.

“We are glad to see Commvault’s poweful scale-out data protection software for the enterprise is now available as a Cisco SKU through ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS,” said Scott Miller, senior director, data centre, WW technology. “Today’s launch extends on Commvault’s successful relationship with Cisco to help customers easily protect, manage and optimise data on Cisco solutions such as Cisco UCS, Cisco HyperFlex, and FlashStack. We look forward to bringing this new, uniquely-bundled solution to market as a game-changing alternative to existing scale-out solutions that have failed to deliver on expectations.”

Commvault and Cisco bring scale-out data protection solutions to enterprise
It provides customers the following benefits and capabilities:

• Agility, resiliency and availability of data and applications, both on-premises and in the cloud

• Setup, management and upgrade simplicity

• Data Platform’s HA and DR capabilities, including simply powerful automation, orchestration and self-service

• Scale-out infrastructure combined with data management and protection, enabling systems consolidation and elimination of point-product solution silos

• Modular scalability to grow with the needs of the business, including non-disruptive capacity and performance expansion

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

• Streamlined support, centralised patch management, and active monitoring

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

• Scale-out capacity that can start small and scale to petabytes

“We are excited that the industry leader in data center infrastructure and the industry leader in data protection have worked together to create a solution that delivers a new level of simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing secondary data,” said N. Robert Hammer, chairman, president and CEO, Commvault. “ScaleProtect with UCS, the powerful combination of Commvault HyperScale Technology and the computing and networking power of Cisco UCS, provides unparalleled performance and cost effectiveness for a range of use cases, including data centre consolidation, infrastructure modernisation, digital transformation, growing multiple location footprints, and business-critical application and dev/test performance.”

Commvault HyperScale technology
It brings scale-out infrastructure to the Data Platform and integrates with storage arrays, hypervisors, applications and the range of cloud provider solutions to support the most diverse and dynamic environments. Customers can consume HyperScale technology in one of two ways: HyperScale Appliance and HyperScale Software.

In support of true hybrid IT environments, HyperScale technology is positioned in the market to protect and securely move workloads across any type of infrastructure including public cloud, private cloud and on-premises.

⁽¹⁾ IDC, Copy Data Management is Not Management of Copy Data, June 2016, IDC #US41335616