Enterprise data management provider Commvault Systems Inc. said today it’s expanding its Metallic software-as-a-service backup and recovery portfolio, adding new data protection features and support for workloads including Salesforce and Microsoft Teams.

Metallic was launched in October 2019 as a data protection service built specifically for midmarket customers. Marketed as being easier to deploy than traditional backup services, Metallic is delivered via the cloud on a subscription basis. It enables customers to back up their data in the Metallic cloud.

It works on external cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services or on on-premises servers. Customers can also choose to backup their data in all three locations if they desire.

Commvault launched with three separate editions of Metallic that enabled customers to back up their Microsoft Office 365 deployments, employee computers and their backend infrastructure. The service has since been expanded to cover more workloads, with the most recent addition being the new Metallic Cloud Storage Service that was launched in October, which gives customers a fully managed, secure, cloud-based SaaS target for protecting data as an air gap copy.

Commvault said at its Commvault GO event in October that the Metallic service has enjoyed rapid growth since its 2019 launch, with endpoint protection moving from something that’s “nice to have” to becoming “absolutely essential” since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The massive drive to protect endpoints and to maintain compliance and control of data there is driving large enterprise customers to Commvault and Metallic as a solution for protecting not hundreds of endpoints, not thousands or tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands of endpoints for some of the customers we’re now talking to,” Mark Jow, EMEA vice president of technical services at Commvault, said in an interview in October on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio.

Today’s update adds a raft of new data protection features and enterprise workload support, Commvault said. For example it’s updating its software-as-a-service application protection capabilities with the new Metallic Salesforce Backup and Microsoft Teams recovery enhancements

The former is designed to provide enterprise-grade data protection for Salesforce.com Inc.’s Sales, Service and Financial Cloud products, and comes with unlimited retention, unlimited storage and hardened security built in to meet stringent standards and recovery requirements. The Microsoft Teams enhancement makes it possible for administrators to recover granular data stored in all Teams channels and conversations, Commvault said.

Meanwhile, the Metallic Database Backup offering now provides full support for Oracle Database and Microsoft Active Directory workloads, in addition to its existing support for SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL.

Metallic is also expanding its hybrid cloud capabilities with the addition of Commvault’s HyperScale X as a fully integrated appliance and edge offering. In other words, HyperScale X can now run in edge mode and operate as a backup target for any hybrid cloud workload protected by the Metallic service.

Finally, Commvault announced that it’s expanding Metallic to 9 new countries in the EMEA region, including Austria, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, and Switzerland. The service is now available in 23 countries, Commvault said.

“We’re finding more and more customers around the world are immediately grasping the value and inherent simplicity that cloud-native as-a service data protection can bring to their environments,” said Manoj Nair, general manager at Metallic.

Here’s more from Commvault’s Jow and Janet Giesen, Metallic’s vice president of operations and programs:

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