Commvault Systems Inc. said today it’s updating its portfolio of data storage products that help enterprises manage their data more intelligently and more simply.

Among the upgrades is a new version of Commvault’s HyperScale X scale-out storage appliance, which now integrates with its recently launched Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform for Kubernetes. The Hedvig platform has also been updated, and the company has also made several enhancements to its other data management products, too.

The announcements, made at the company’s FutureReady digital event today, were aimed at simplifying what is a fragmented data backup and recovery landscape. “We’re building for simplification across our portfolio,” Chief Executive Sanjay Mirchandani told SiliconANGLE in an interview today. “The solutions of yesteryear are clearly not designed for the hypercloud.”

Commvault is a provider of data protection software that also competes in adjacent areas such as storage management. For much of its 32-year history the company has been focused on selling hardware for its customers corporate data centers, but in recent years it has set about transforming its business for the new era of cloud-based computing.

To accelerate that transformation, Commvault acquired software-defined storage startup Hedvig Inc. for $225 million last September in order to help its customers better manage data in multicloud environments. The technology it acquired is the basis of Commvault’s Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform for Kubernetes, which is designed for companies that run the Kubernetes container orchestration software in hybrid and multicloud environments.

Kubernetes is open-source software that’s used to manage large clusters of software containers, which are environments that host the components of modern, “agile” applications that can run on any computing infrastructure. Enterprises are increasingly choosing to run Kubernetes across multiple cloud environments, and Commvault argues that they can benefit from having a storage infrastructure that’s optimized to support each cloud platform they use.

Commvault’s Hedvig platform provides a way for companies to manage different kinds of cloud data storage infrastructure via a centralized console. Hedvig’s software works with Commvault’s storage hardware and allows information technology teams to allocate storage capacity for applications centrally, while maintaining full control over the data that sits on that storage. It supports multiple storage types and enables administrators to back up records, copy them from one application to another, apply encryption and perform other related tasks.

Commvault said the Hedvig platform is being updated with new capabilities that enable customers to build and run applications with encryption and third-party Key Management Interoperability Protocol support, which helps to improve data security in any Kubernetes environment. Today’s enhancements also support more efficient and intelligent data movement across Hedvig storage clusters, an ability that should help to speed up DevOps processes, the company said.

The new edition of Commvault Hyperscale X is the company’s first storage appliance that’s been optimized for use with the Hedvig platform. Hyperscale X has been designed to fulfill the greater scalability, security and resiliency requirements that customers have when migrating their applications to container-based and virtualized environments, the company said. It also enables better performance for backup and recovery operations thanks to its integration with Hedvig’s file system.

“Integrating Hedvig’s scalable and resilient scale-out file system with the latest generation of Commvault HyperScale X is critical to customer success with our solutions,” said Ranga Rajagopalan, Commvault’s vice president of product management.

Furthermore, Commvault said, it’s refreshing its line of storage software products, adding a new, standalone Commvault Backup & Recovery tool that helps to ensure data availability for the entirety of customers workloads, including those running in software containers, cloud native and virtual environments.

Also new is Commvault Complete Data protection, which combines its existing Disaster Recovery software with the new Backup & Recovery tool into a single data protection solution that enables both data availability and business continuity across cloud and on-premises environments. That’s in addition to new standalone Data Governance, eDiscovery & Compliance and File Storage Optimization products, that were previously bundled together under the Commvault Activate banner.

Commvault said it’s making all of its new software products available under a subscription model to provide more simplified pricing for its customers.

Mirchandani spoke about the new products and Commvault’s direction with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio in an interview published today:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Commvault FutureReady 2020 Digital Experience. Neither Commvault, the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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