While the adoption of cloud-native services and software applications, as well as moving workloads into cloud models, are concepts that have been evolving for the past 10 years, the coronavirus pandemic has sped up digital transformations for today’s enterprises.

Now more than ever before, companies have seen the importance of being able to scale up or dial down, even as personnel are forced to work from home, all the while not locking into one specific computing environment. As a backup and data protection provider, Commvault Systems Inc. is in the middle of such conversations with organizations as they navigate these important information-technology challenges.

“There’s definitely an operational driver … which is ‘How can I scale up or down my data center without having the possibility to have people on the ground? And so how can I move into a virtual data center?'” said Riccardo Di Blasio (pictured), chief revenue officer of Commvault Systems.

Di Blasio spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the HPE Discover Virtual Experience event. They discussed navigating cloud models with customers and Commvault’s partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (* Disclosure below.)

What’s key to an evolving digital world?

Because of what’s at stake right now during the global COVID-19 pandemic, there’s growing focus on cost and the importance of cloud-native apps, according to Di Blasio. And for many companies, cloud solutions become a better fit within such a complex, quickly changing environment.

“How can you have a dashboard of different business application and operational applications that are better integrated with the cloud-native apps?” Di Blasio asked. “The more you can offer your client … cloud-native services, that is, naturally integrated with the current cloud-native apps, the more you are going to make their life easier.”

Commvault claims considerable success with its enterprise clients, and has several key strategic partners, including HPE. Both companies have integrated their product lines and platforms together so that their clients will not feel the difference of having two different SaaS solutions. This applies to services such as GreenLake’s IT as a service for HPE and the Metallic backup recovery product line from Commvault.

“We want to do more from a product-integration perspective in order to better serve our clients, and we often do business with the same channel partners that we have in our ecosystem,” Di Blasio concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the HPE Discover Virtual Experience event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the HPE Discover Virtual Experience. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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