CommVault Announces Application-Aware Support For SQL Server 2012

CommVault has announced that its Simpana 9 data and information management software platform is fully compatible with Microsoft Corp’s newly released SQL Server 2012 Data platform with support for SQL Server’s advanced high availability and disaster recovery solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments. CommVault’s Solving Forward philosophy delivers a single software platform that protects data and applications from the back office to the end-point device to increase efficiency, cut costs and reduce risk.

SQL Server 2012 is a comprehensive database platform offering a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help organisations derive business value from data and information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Simpana software’s integration with SQL Server gives customers the highest levels of performance, availability, and security through integrated data management, protection and retention to eliminate risk, reduce costs and increase efficiency.

CommVault Simpana software enables customers to quickly back-up, recover, replicate and manage SQL Server data without the cost and complexity of managing disparate products or tools.

Simpana SnapProtect snapshot management technology tightly integrates SQL Server 2012 with array-based snapshots to deliver application consistent recovery copies across physical or virtual environments with seamless backup to cost effective storage for long-term retention. Centralised management and reporting from a single console reduces complexity while automated scheduling and discovery of SQL instances enables scalable protection.

Simpana software also supports SQL Server 2012’s “AlwaysOn” technology, Microsoft’s new high availability and disaster recovery solution, which provides redundancy within and across datacentres to help enable fast application failover during planned and unplanned downtime.

Randy De Meno, Chief Technologist for Windows Products, CommVault said, “CommVault’s strategic alliance with Microsoft continues to evolve and expand as both companies work closely to meet and exceed the data and information management needs of our customers. CommVault customers can deploy SQL Server 2012 with confidence knowing that Simpana 9 provides fully integrated data protection and advanced information management in SQL Server environments right out of the gate.”