UPDATED 08:30 EDT / OCTOBER 17 2017

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Commvault debuts new data protection system for hybrid IT environments

Enterprise data management company Commvault Systems Inc. is debuting a new data management and protection system for companies looking for a safe way to scale out their hybrid information data center-cloud technology environments.

Commvault says the new system is being offered in two ways: as an all-in-one appliance and also as a reference architecture for companies that wish to use their own hardware. It said the new HyperScale Appliance and HyperScale Software products are designed to protect and securely move workloads across any type of infrastructure including public cloud, private cloud and on-premises.

The new offerings integrate with the company’s flagship Data Platform and are mainly geared toward the management and protection of “inactive data” that’s being housed in what’s called “secondary storage.” That refers to nonvolatile mediums such as disk, flash or tape, rather than primary storage arrays. Most organizations use secondary storage systems to store data that’s accessed less frequently than primary data, mainly because it’s much cheaper than primary storage, though it does mean lower performance.

Commvault reckons that about 70 percent of customer data these days is consumed directly from secondary storage. With all of this secondary data building up in the background, Commvault said, companies are looking to move beyond traditional “scale-up” storage appliances in favor of a more efficient, scale-out approach that leverages both on-premises hardware and the cloud.

That’s where the company’s new data management product comes in. The offerings can be integrated with most storage arrays, hypervisors for creating virtual machines in software, applications, and private and public cloud services, thereby providing a way to manage and scale out secondary data and make it more accessible, Commvault said. The new system comes with its own built-in operating system and virtualization, as well storage technology from Red Hat Inc. that ensures data is both protected and adheres to governance regulations.

“Commvault has developed an enterprise-ready, cloud-scale solution that can help customers to transform their data centers to enable greater operational efficiency, resiliency and scalability,” said Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager of storage at Red Hat.

Commvault is offering its new hyperscale data management and protection system as a hardware appliance in data capacities ranging from 32 terabytes up to 80 terabytes, and alternatively as a reference architecture for customers that prefer to install it on their own, on-premises storage systems.

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