CommVault News & Media

The topic of eDiscovery is certainly a hot button issue for legal and IT teams alike, from both a cost and risk perspective. The 2006 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) amendments triggered the market hype because they broadened the scope of discoverable material to include all Electronically Stored Information (ESI). Since then, the digital landscape has changed so dramatically that the conversation has continued, with elevated intensity.

For the third consecutive year, CommVault has been positioned in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant: Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software¹." According to Gartner, "The Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software presents the next step in the evolution of backup, which incorporates new products, solutions and techniques for protecting, backing up and recovering desktop, laptop, physical server and virtual server files, applications and system images.

Gartner just published its 2013 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software, and, for the third year in a row, CommVault was named to the Leaders Quadrant. You can see where the top 4 vendors are placed and where CommVault landed.

Gartner has positioned CommVault as a Leader based on our ability to execute and completeness of vision. Our culture of innovation, matched with over 18,000 customers, makes CommVault the world's fastest growing data storage software company.

Info-Tech Research Group has recognized CommVault as an industry "Champion" in Virtual Backup Software, Email Archiving, and Backup Software for Heterogeneous Environments in its latest Vendor Landscape Reports. These industry reports recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace based on an assessment of the strength of their offerings and their ability to deliver excellent value to customers.

There's no "half-time" in hockey, nor half a goal scored in hockey, but a "half" is significant for CommVault as CommVault reached the half million dollar mark this season in our efforts to help children's charities and organizations throughout the USA through our Hockey Helping Kids (HHK) program. Our HHK program has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in Madison Square Garden in 2001 to our most recent event at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis on April 23^rd. We've had many sponsors throughout the years assisting us, but first and foremost, we have to acknowledge Microsoft, with several divisions participating this season — Windows Server (with a special shout-out to the GM of Windows Server, Gavriella Schuster), Windows Azure and Microsoft overall. It's easy to understand why they share our passion to give back to the community.

If you didn't make it to CommVault's recent Hockey Helping Kids (HHK) event at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly, you missed a fantastic opportunity to meet and mingle with some terrific CommVault employees, customers and partners. I was there and I can tell you it was the very best combination of networking, fun and philanthropy.

CommVault honored its global partners at its second annual worldwide Partner of the Year Awards program held last Thursday evening at the company's worldwide sales kickoff event in Miami. These awards recognize partners for outstanding success in modernizing data and information management for customers, exceeding business goals and providing superior sales, services and support of CommVault^® Simpana^® software.

CommVault announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.

N. Robert Hammer, CommVault's chairman, president and CEO stated, "Our excellent results in the fourth quarter were highlighted by record revenues, non-GAAP EBIT and operating cash flows. Our 23% growth in software revenues in the fourth quarter compared to the prior year was driven by another quarter of record enterprise software deals (transactions greater than $100,000) and strong demand both domestically and internationally. Our fourth quarter results concluded a strong fiscal 2013 where we achieved substantial improvements in all aspect of our business by delivering 25% software revenue growth and a 53% improvement in non-GAAP EBIT for the full fiscal year."

It's time to rethink your data deduplication strategy. Most environments using dedupe today either suffer from resource bottlenecks, scale limitations, or a combination of both. This seems to be particularly true with the rapid spread of dedupe appliances. Don't get me wrong — a dedupe appliance is a useful tool that solves some important challenges customers may face when rapidly rolling out the technology to see a quick benefit. But this strategy retains the fundamental reliance on hardware that can create other problems. In particular, as datasets continue to accelerate in growth, these approaches fundamentally ask you to throw more and more hardware at the problem. As a result, if you're deduping this way today, you may be overpaying and/or underperforming. Read on to determine how to remedy these problems.