Commvault and IT Solutions Provider Zones Partnering

Commvault Systems, Inc. announced that Metallic, a Commvault venture, is working with Zones, LLC, an IT solutions provider committed to helping businesses complete their digital transformation, to further deliver SaaS-based data protection for Office 365 and the Azure cloud through Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery.

Together Metallic and Zone are expanding their market footprint and reaching more companies that require data protection with a simple SaaS delivery model.

With 200 million users, Office 365 is a component of a modern business, offering applications that manage daily critical business functions. Based on the breadth of users as well as a range of applications, including OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online (mailboxes, contacts, documents, and calendar items), Project Online, Teams, and Groups, the volume of data being created is exponential. This makes it crucial to have a backup solution that can accomplish a range of tasks, including setting up retention policies for compliance, providing flexible restore options, and storing backup copies in multiple environments. To accomplish this, Microsoft recommends the implementation of third party backup solutions, however, according to Enterprise Strategy Group, 81% of Office 365 customers are still not using a third party backup.

Metallic’s relationship with Zones will address this need, providing enterprise-grade data protection that is scalable, flexible, and secure. As a SaaS solution, Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery can be up in minutes, protecting Office 365 data where it lives. Users are also receiving an extra layer of protection vs. accidental deletion, corruption, and malicious attacks. If data does become compromised, Metallic offers quick and granular restore of data, reducing the potential for downtime.

This partnership is Metallic’s latest strategic move to strengthen its partner ecosystem and expand its customer base. In addition to Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery, Zones also offers Metallic’s range of products, including Metallic Core Backup & Recovery for VM, file server, and SQL server data, and Metallic Endpoint Backup & Recovery for laptops and desktops, providing its customers with access to data protection for their organization.

“Building on the momentum of Metallic’s success, we are thrilled to announce our newest partnership with Zones to provide its customers with backup protection for Microsoft Office 365,” said Thad Keating, worldwide VP of GTM, Metallic. “The key component to this partnership lies in our shared expertise in supporting the Azure cloud environment. What differentiates Metallic is that it provides broad, scalable enterprise capabilities for mid-sized companies up to the largest IT environments. Zones’ customers can quickly and easily save and recover any data created using Office 365 applications to the cloud, ensuring a safeguard where they need it most – in their everyday business processes.“

“At Zones, the partnership with Metallic in the Data Management and BCDR space was driven by two factors,” said Byron Fehler, VP and GM, software and cloud, Zones. “First, we always want to offer our clients the best solutions to meet their data management needs, and Metallic, a SaaS delivered enterprise-grade backup & recovery solution created using 20 years of Commvault ingenuity, breaks the mold. And second, we strive to make the transaction process as seamless as the deployment. Now, with the newly launched Zones Cloud 2.0 enterprise-grade cloud commerce platform, our clients have the ability to seamlessly transact Metallic in a self-service model.“

Metallic, a Commvault venture, was established to bring next-gen SaaS data protection to the market, delivering Commvault’s powerful core technology through the cloud. Together with its partners, it offers a portfolio of SaaS backup and recovery solutions to help companies keep their data protected, compliant and safe from deletion, corruption and attack. Metallic operates as a division of Commvault.