By Nigel Tozer In a recent blog I had a little fun with the “Game of Thrones,” and positioned the ever-looming winter in the show as a metaphor for change. “Change” in that blog was about disruptive shifts in technology and their social impact, but one significant change was overlooked – that of climate. Whether you believe […]
By James Canham-Ash #EarthDay is an annual call to arms for the public – and more recently companies – to learn more about the beauty of the world and the dangers threatening the natural order. The celebration falls each year on April 22 with hundreds of millions of people around the globe, across 192 countries […]
By Kevin Komiega Commvault and Microsoft have worked together for decades to help customers drive efficiency, cost savings and compliance in their businesses. Today, we provide enterprise class data protection and management for Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack, Office 365 and Microsoft SQL Server, to name several platforms and apps. But what does the future hold? […]
By Nigel Tozer Any fan of Game of Thrones (GoT) will tell you that it’s a dark-ages-styled drama, presented more as history than fantasy, and a significant topping of back-stabbing politics for greed and power, with a strong undercurrent of sword and sorcery. It’s pure escapism, which couldn’t possibly have relevance to our digital age, […]
By Randy De Meno How did computer geeks playing ice hockey raise $1.8 million for children’s charities? Over the past 19 years, Commvault has played hockey and raised funds with our customers and charitable partners, including Microsoft, Arrosoft Solutions, Insight, Tech Data, Shop-Rite and D&M Auto Body, plus a few celebrities along the way. Our most recent event, benefiting the Southwest Autism Research […]
By Doug Chando Are You Ready To Recover, Or Do You Just Think It? This is the fourth blog in a five-part series on risk mitigation and how Commvault can help. Read the third one. As we have talked about in previous blogs, it’s no secret your data is under constant threat. Because of this fact, you […]
By Miranda Foster In many parts of the world, April is the onset of spring – which usually means lots of rain. In the IT world, we like rain. Why? Because you need a cloud to have rain – just like you need a cloud for backup. Spring is also one of the busiest times […]
By Penny Gralewski When you cloud responsibly, your organization can move to the cloud for data agility while also enforcing your data protection policies. “Cloud responsibly” means that an organization is being smart and thoughtful about managing data protection, backup, rapid recovery, search and availability of workloads in cloud and multi-cloud environments. “Cloud responsibly” is […]
By Damian Andre At Commvault, we work with our partners to solve our customer’s hard problems and to unlock the potential within their data. Our latest release: SP15 continues to meet this objective and contains lots of new features. Read part one of the new data protection features in SP15. Command Center and Commvault Platform With […]
By Damian Andre For us techies, when it comes to Commvault we are lucky to celebrate at least four times a year. As you probably know, every quarter a new Service Pack (or shall I say, Feature Pack) rolls out from our engineering team and ushers in new functionality. These feature releases are an iterative […]
By Chris Powell A few years back, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting The Funk Brothers, an incredible band that was the subject of a great documentary called “Standing in the Shadows of Motown.” They worked with (backed up) Motown legends and, according to the documentary, produced more hits than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones […]
By Commvault The story of the Apollo 13 mission is legendary. It is the subject of numerous articles, books, movies and documentaries. “Houston, we have a problem” is probably quoted a few times a day – although the correct form is “Houston, we’ve had a problem” – in corporate boardrooms around the world. Apollo 13 is […]
By Matt Tyrer Like many of you, I’ve been around the block having cut my teeth on many facets of the industry over my something like two decades of work in this technology business we call IT (among other things 😉). This month, we celebrate something that has been an underpinning foundation of that industry – Backup. It […]
By Scott Britton Affordable Archive Solution Eliminates the Need for Tape Backups Commvault, in lock step with Amazon Web Services, launched support for Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. You can finally let go of your backup and archives on tape storage, and with Commvault send them directly to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. Commvault is the […]
By Doug Chando Prevention Through Smart Monitoring And Alerting This is the third blog in a five-part series on risk mitigation and how Commvault can help. In the last post, we were discussing the importance prevention plays in ensuring that you are prepared to handle the evolving threats to your data. Hardening of systems was the […]
By Penny Gralewski Many IT teams are asking great questions about IT modernization and cloud data protection. There is definitely an opportunity to connect these two top initiatives and find additional benefits. Here are some of the key questions you asked – and we answered – in the recent webinar, “Data Protection’s Role in Cloud […]
By Sam Grover Enhances Integration With The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Ecosystem As of V11 SP15, made available March 15, 2019, Commvault Complete™ Backup and Recovery will include a tightly integrated protection solution for Nutanix Files. The obvious question is: what is Nutanix Files? Nutanix Files is a scale-out file storage solution that leverages the Nutanix HCI […]
By Doug Chando Prevention Is Hard-Ening This is the second blog in a five-part series on risk mitigation and how Commvault can help. In our last blog in the Risk Mitigation series, we talked about how old methods and thinking around disaster recovery are really inadequate, or won’t necessarily prepare you for the new and evolving […]
By Doug Chando This is the first blog in a five-part series on risk mitigation and how Commvault can help. It seems like these days you don’t have to look too hard to find yet another story in the news about some major company that has been impacted by a ransomware event. In fact, in […]
By Penny Gralewski When it comes to cloud backup and recovery, what topic worries your organization the most? For 79 percent of you, the worries focus on risk. In the scenarios that worry you the most, risk – and rapid recovery from that risk – is a big concern for IT leaders. Cloud backup and recovery […]