Commvault, a global leader in enterprise data protection and information
management and Nutanix, the next-generation enterprise computing
company, today announced Commvault integration and support of the
Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor, including Commvault IntelliSnap
snapshot management capabilities to simplify protection and recovery
for data and virtual machines running on Nutanix. These enhancements
mark the latest step in this
partnership,
enabling organizations to easily increase predictability, scalability
and efficiency when deploying infrastructure in a virtualized
environment while leveraging the flexibility to deliver customer-fit
SLAs for recovery and easy data access from the Commvault Data Platform.
Today, organizations are looking for datacenter infrastructure for
tier 1 applications that can make infrastructure truly invisible, so
that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their
business. There is also a growing need for modern data protection that
aligns to this new infrastructure architecture with a single solution
for all hypervisors that is easy, scalable and secure.
"Two of the most important trends that IT professionals should be
focused on are - increasing their virtualization agility & assuring
the reliability and recovery of that environment," said Jason Buffington
(@JBuff), senior analyst at ESG. "As organizations continue their
virtualization journey, converged & hyperconverged systems make huge
amounts of sense. And since ‘when modernizing production, you must modernize protection,'
it also makes a lot of sense to integrate agile snapshots,
application-aware data protection and mature data management
technologies into joint solutions that assure customers that their new
infrastructure is not only highly performant, but also highly reliable
and recoverable."
By adding support for the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor alongside
capabilities already available for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V,
Commvault will be the only data protection software platform that
provides hardware snapshot integration and agentless protection for all
three hypervisors on Nutanix. This integration, leveraging Commvault
IntelliSnap and Nutanix Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric snapshot
functionality, provides customers with the ability to optimize costs by
seamlessly leveraging the most appropriate hypervisor, reducing risk and
effort in scalable and high-performance solutions.
"Building on our industry-leading work with virtualized environments
and snapshots, Commvault is uniquely positioned to bring enhanced data
protection and recovery to hyperconverged customers using Nutanix
Acropolis," said Brian Allison, VP of Worldwide Alliances, Commvault.
"This represents a significant milestone in our commitment to providing
the holistic data management solutions organizations are demanding and
is indicative of the close engineering relationship between Commvault
and Nutanix."
With integration into Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor, Commvault adds to
its pre-existing portfolio of managing and protecting hypervisors
including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V.
"Commvault has been an early and strong supporter of the Acropolis
hypervisor since its launch," said Venugopal Pai, Vice President of
Strategic Alliances and Business Development, Nutanix. "IT organizations
need holistic data protection and management for their critical
enterprise applications. We see Commvault as an ideal partner to provide
these important capabilities. Today, Nutanix and Commvault are
addressing a critical need in the datacenter."
Basic support for Nutanix Acropolis is available now to select
customers, with more advanced IntelliSnap technology integration coming
later in the quarter. Key features of the Nutanix and Commvault
integration include:
- Deploy the data protection solution that aligns to your
applications' unique needs with options for both streaming and
snapshot-based backup for virtual machines
- Collapse backup windows and accelerate restores through easy to use snapshot management without scripting
- Ensure application consistency across a wide-range of enterprise applications including SAP, Oracle, Exchange, and SQL Server
- Eliminate the need for complex multiple point-solutions with a
fully integrated solution across physical, virtual (VMware, Hyper-V, and
Acropolis Hypervisors) and cloud-based data
"We're hearing more and more from organizations that they need
infrastructure - hardware as well as data management for what's running
on it - that is easier to manage, deploy, scale and protect," said Chris
Mierzwa, Senior Vice president of Infrastructure Strategy at Sirius
Computer Solutions. "As a leading provider of solutions based on
Commvault and Nutanix technologies, we believe that this enhanced
integration will be an extremely attractive solution for our need of a
data management and protection solution for hyperconverged
environments."
To learn more, visitors can register for an on-demand Webinar hosted
by Commvault and Nutanix on this new support as well as how to combine
hyperconverged infrastructure, snapshots and next generation software
at: http://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1107446/CC38922CC7BE4DC5A4534BF73A37E1E0?partnerref=CV08