After buying scale-out storage provider Hedvig for $225 million in September, Commvault Systems Inc. has followed up with the announcement this week that it would position the newly acquired technology to unify multicloud storage and data management.

With new software-defined storage capabilities encompassing container interfaces and multi-tenant data centers, integration with the rest of Commvault’s portfolio will be key, but that’s not the entire story.

“They’re already working on the technical integration of the solutions,” said Lisa Martin (@LisaMartinTV), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Commvault GO event in Aurora, Colorado. “It’s not just about integrating the technologies, and that has to be done really well, but it’s also about giving customers consistency and, for Commvault, a new era of transparency with respect to pricing.”

Martin was joined by co-host Stu Miniman (@stu) on the second day of Commvault GO, and they discussed the launch of a new data protection venture and reaction to Commvault’s faster pace of change (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

A simpler SaaS experience

In addition to the new capabilities offered by Hedvig, the other news from Commvault Go this week surrounded the launch of a cloud-native data protection venture called Metallic. As a software-as-a-service backup product, the Metallic offering is based on expectations that the mid-market will be looking for a simple SaaS experience.

“Metallic is the thing we will be talking the most about,” Miniman said. “Do I have to remember my data and, as it changes down the road, do I have everything set up right? Those are some things that we’re trying to get away from when going to a SaaS or cloud model.”

Commvault’s latest announcements point to a change in the 20-year-old company’s approach, driven in part by the hire of new CEO Sanjay Mirchandani earlier this year.

“He’s going to make things move even faster, and the pace of change over the last nine months is just the beginning,” Miniman noted. “I’m not hearing grumbling underneath. The customers seem fully on board; the employees are energized.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Commvault GO event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Commvault GO event. Neither Commvault Systems Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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