Commvault Overview: A Better Way
CommVault is the only independent software and service company focused exclusively on data management. We provide companies with a better way to manage data growth, lower costs, and reduce risk by using a single, unified architecture. This flexible platform approach enables our Data Protection , Archive , Replication and Resource Management software to work seamlessly together, utilizing a set of common functions. The result is singular efficiency, performance, reliability, and control over enterprise data environments.
Being the only software company focused exclusively on data management puts CommVault in a decidedly exclusive category, but it's an incomplete definition. It doesn't begin to tell the complete story of who CommVault is and what makes us unlike the old data management standbys you're used to.
That's because CommVault's identity is as much about character as capabilities. The philosophy that inspired our creation and continues to inform our every move is what enables us to develop truly unique solutions.
Like most great ideas, CommVault was born from the passionate belief in a better way. Our founders understood all too well the shortcomings of existing data management solutions and the difficulties and frustrations they inspired.
Rather than accept these shortcomings, CommVault's founders determined to develop a better way to manage data. A way that would not attempt merely to "integrate" disparate solutions, but would spawn solutions designed to work together from a single, infinitely-adaptable code base. A way that would not merely address current data management needs, but that would anticipate and meet needs yet to come. A way that would be more accessible, adaptable, flexible and powerful than any data management solution to date.
This innovative Solving Forward™ approach is quietly transforming what people think a data management solution provider can be.
The Market Demand for Data Availability
CommVault’s software is built upon an innovative architecture and a single underlying code base, or Common Technology Engine. This unique unified architecture sets CommVault apart from any other data management software company. Competitors offering similar applications built upon disparate software architectures are merely “integrating” point products never designed to work together Our architecture provides us with significant competitive advantages, including the industry’s most granular and automated management of data, tiered classification of all data based on its user-defined value, and greater product reliability and ease of installation. In addition, we believe we have lower support and development costs and faster time to market for our new data management software applications.
CommVault software fully interoperates with a wide variety of operating systems, applications, network devices and protocols, storage arrays, storage formats, and tiered storage infrastructures. This gives our customers the flexibility to purchase the optimal hardware and software for their needs, regardless of vendor.
CommVault has established a worldwide multi-channel distribution network to sell our software, support and services to large global enterprises, small and medium sized businesses, and government agencies, both directly through our sales force and indirectly through our global network of value. CommVault has licensed data management software to many Global 2000 companies, including customers across many industries.
CommVault's Data Management Vision
As CommVault began developing its suite of high-performance, enterprise solutions, the company recognized that most data and storage management products currently on the market were designed well over a decade ago. System administrators had been burdened with complex, outdated systems. These solutions had a lack of automation, weak integration between functional capabilities, and failed to provide a seamless, unified management console with a hard-coded, physical view of storage.
To solve these problems, CommVault embarked on an 18-month research and development project, identifying the critical data management features and benefits not being offered by other storage management vendors: unparalleled automation, extreme ease-of-use, high reliability, competitive performance, flexible deployment and configuration, and superior manageability. First delivered as a LAN-based backup and recovery product, these features and benefits have been extended by CommVault to SAN and NAS-based storage architectures.
The company's vision and strategic mission is to be the leading provider of singular information management solutions, ensuring high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. To achieve this goal, CommVault recognized that its products needed to "manage" the entire data path — from application to device.
In addition, CommVault understood early on that its software must "know the state" of the data and storage infrastructure where it resides for its products to ensure access and availability of data. Having established a technology leadership position in the backup and recovery market, CommVault is building upon that winning foundation — delivering new solutions that dramatically expand the market served. CommVault software and our accompanying pro-services are based on the concept of managing and moving data based on its attributes and its environment. CommVault software offers solutions for data protection, data migration and archiving, high data availability, storage resource management, device element management and data infrastructure management. The interaction and integration of these software modules results in many business and operational advantages, such as superior ROI, better use of storage resources, higher staff productivity, maximum data availability and reduced Total Cost of Ownership.
As a long-standing and trusted partner, the company works closely with a broad network of resellers, OEMs and other suppliers to meet customers' evolving data protection needs.