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Debbi Swart,
First Distribution’s
CommVault Brand Manager
“CommVault’s Simpana 10
really is a leap forward, and
not just marketing talk”
“CommVault’s Simpana 10 really is a
leap forward, and not just marketing
talk” says Debbi Swart, First Distribution’s CommVault Brand Manager.
Simpana 10 extends CommVault’s
data protection and archiving leadership to deliver secure, self-service
access from mobile devices, speed
the adoption of cloud computing and
extract value from Big Data. It enables
enterprises to take an exponential leap
forward in protecting and managing
their data at scale, creating value from
information and improving access with
the latest release of the company’s
singular data management software
platform, Simpana® 10.
“In terms of effectiveness, the figures
speak for themselves” Debbi comments. “There are more than 300 new
features in Simpana 10 which combine
to reduce risk, slash costs by up to
half, reduce administrative overhead
by up to 80 percent and lower aggregate support costs by up to 35
percent. That’s real business value in
anyone’s terms” she adds.
There are five key areas where the
new product delivers value:
Increasing the Value of Data
The Simpana single-platform software
architecture builds on CommVault’s
Solving Forward® vision to modernise
data management. Simpana 10’s
singular architecture efficiently stores
all protected data in a virtual repository, called ContentStore, and opens
access to simplify the way end users
search, analyse and repurpose data
across an enterprise.
Slashing Time, Risk and Cost
As enterprises adopt modern techniques to protect and recover their
critical applications such as hardware
snapshots integrated with backup,
CommVault continues to lead the
industry in delivering comprehensive
data management solutions that
help improve efficiency and reduce
operational costs. New data protection and archive innovations simplify
administration, reduce infrastructure
and accelerate virtualisation and cloud
adoption, such as:
- Enhanced IntelliSnap™ snapshot
management, formerly called SnapProtect, provides instant, automated
recovery of applications and virtual
servers with the industry-leading compatibility.
- Simpana OnePass™ with Exchange
makes long-term e-mail retention
affordable and practical by converging
backup, archiving and reporting into a
single process.
- Tighter integration with Microsoft
Hyper-V, VMware vSphere 5.1 and
vCloud Director 5.1 helps enterprises
achieve cloud-scale through automated discovery, protection and recovery
in virtualised environments
- Multiple enhancements that slash
the cost and complexity of disaster
recovery and reduce recovery time,
from replicating deduplicated data
copies to any storage target to using
single-click recovery of backups into
virtual machines
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