Twelve years ago, Commvault Systems Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. partnered to help customers solve data management challenges, including solving data backup and recovery challenges.

The partnership was prompted by the transformations witnessed in the cloud, such as the need for streamlined data recovery, according to Ranga Rajagopalan (pictured, left), vice president of products at Commvault Systems Inc.

“AWS and Commvault came together with AWS offering security features and Commvault bringing in its own authorization controls, and now we have moved more than 14 petabytes of backup data into the cloud,” he pointed out. “It’s so robust that not even the backup administrator can go and touch the backups without multiple levels of authorization.”

Rajagopalan and Stephen Orban (pictured, right), general manager of AWS Marketplace & Control Services at AWS, spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Commvault Connections21 event. They discussed how the Commvault/AWS relationship, as well as how Commvault’s data backup and recovery solutions are changing the AWS Marketplace. (* Disclosure below.)

Prevention is better than cure in data backup and recovery

Based on the agility and power that the cloud brings to the table, Rajagopalan believes that it offers amicable backup and recovery solutions.

 “It’s unfortunately not a question of whether you’re going to be hit by ransomware, it’s … what do you do when you’re hit by ransomware and the ability to use the cloud scale immediately to bring up the resources,” Rajagopalan explained. “The cloud backups have become a very popular choice simply because of the speed with which you can bring the business back to normal operations.”

With disaster recovery depending on data backup and computer processing in a different location, Orban believes that cloud computing is filling this void.

“And one of the impetus for us moving to the cloud in the first place was when Hurricane Sandy hit. We had a real disaster recovery scenario in one of our New Jersey data centers; we had to act pretty quickly, and Commvault was part of that solution,” Orban concluded. 

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Commvault Connections21 event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Commvault Connections21 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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