When Commvault Systems Inc. acquired Hedvig Inc. in September, the official company announcement positioned the purchase as an opportunity to address the challenges that companies face with data management in multicloud environments.

Customers want unified solutions, not fragmented applications that only solve one piece of the puzzle. This is exactly why Hedvig’s founder believes the combination with Commvault is a perfect fit.

“I believe that enterprises are gravitating towards complete solutions,” said Avinash Lakshman (pictured, left), founder and chief executive officer of Hedvig. “If you look at data management and backup, Commvault is clearly the leader in that space. We bring a very complimentary set of tools that, coupled together, could be a complete solution for a large variety of workloads in the modern data center and hence it makes an ideal fit.”

Lakshman spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Lisa Martin (@LisaMartinTV), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Commvault GO event in Aurora, Colorado. He was joined by Don Foster (pictured, right), vice president of storage solutions at Commvault, and they discussed how both companies view the opportunities offered by the acquisition and the continued importance of engaging the DevOps community in future initiatives (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Gaining agility

From Commvault’s perspective, the combination with Hedvig is one way to gain a “right technology, right time” advantage as the tech world moves toward application-centric platforms and a more agile, flexible infrastructure.

“It keeps us very relevant for information technology and where the shifts to applications are going,” Foster said. “You have the indexing control, the management, the understanding of what Commvault provides for data management, and you have all the flexibility and control the Hedvig platform provides. Marrying them together just gives you that much more agility for how you can use that information.”

The marriage of Hedvig and Commvault also provides another important byproduct: developer interest. The combination of both companies’ capabilities offers an opportunity to further advance the future of programmable networks.

“If you look at some of our larger customers, they deploy us in environments where they want to have practically zero-touch provisioning capability,” Lakshman said. “This means that your infrastructure ought to be completely programmable, which is what the DevOps movement is all about. With the comprehensive set of APIs that we expose for control and data plane, it actually makes that pipedream a reality.”

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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