Starting next Monday, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE will be broadcasting live from the VMworld Conference being held in San Francisco. This series intends to highlight a few of the sessions and presentations being proffered by experts in the field.

It felt only natural, as SiliconANGLE has been focusing on virtualization for the month of August, that we start this series with a break-out session being offered by Jonathan Howard and Donald Foster of CommVault. Their presentation, entitled ‘Leveraging Advanced Storage Capabilities to Meet Today’s Virtual Environment SLAs’ will start from the idea that the relevancy of the traditional models for backup and recovery is diminishing on a near daily basis.

CommVault, with its more than 18,500 customers, is a data/information management software company with several strategic partnerships with leading technology firms like Dell, Microsoft, NetApp, VMware and others. Their 17 year history has been one that looks to service customers who operate with a certain level of malleability in order to achieve strategic goals. And most recently, CommVault has been named a leader in the ‘Gartner 2013 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software.

Howard and Foster will highlight how new technologies are emerging which will enable organizations to complement their vStorage API Data Protection (VADP) especially in light of certain applications that might require shorter recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) unable to be achieved by a VADP alone. The technology they allude to employs array-based snapshots for application-consistent backups. This is important in the provision of improved performance, uptime, RPO and RTO. Additionally, they will discuss how this snapshot technology can be utilized across dissimilar storage hardware.

Howard and Foster will be presenting between 1 and 2 pm PST next Tuesday, August 27 in the Moscone West Room 3012. If you are unable to attend the VMworld Conference, be sure to join  SiliconANGLE as we live stream the conference at www.siliconangle.tv.