NetApp Expands Collaboration With CommVault

NetApp is strengthening its portfolio of Integrated Data Protection solutions with its new NetApp SnapProtect management software. SnapProtect software combines efficient, high-speed NetApp SnapshotTM copies and replication with tape in a single backup solution to help organistions improve the speed, efficiency, and simplicity of their backup and recovery operations.

With this announcement, NetApp has expanded its collaboration with CommVault to include a global OEM agreement under which its industry-leading CommVault Simpana software provides a core component of the new NetApp SnapProtect offering. The announcement further underscores NetApp’s commitment to OEM business models as an integral component of the company’s strategy to expand its market reach.

In transitioning to virtualised, shared IT environments, enterprises are turning to snapshot copies to achieve greater efficiencies, back up vast data volumes within short timetables to meet demanding service levels, and recover business operations quickly.

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To maximise the efficiencies of snapshot copies, many backup strategies employed by enterprises today require a separate management process or detailed scripting, which introduces complexity and the potential for data loss. Using a single management framework, NetApp SnapProtect software eliminates the need to manage snapshot operations and backup in parallel, allowing enterprises to gain the speed and efficiency of snapshot copies with the flexibility of an industry-leading backup application.

In addition, NetApp is expanding integration with CommVault Simpana software to manage both NetApp Snapshot copies and replication in their existing Simpana environment. This integration delivers an innovative approach to data protection that helps customers streamline management of terabytes to petabytes of data.

SnapProtect software is one of several solutions that are part of NetApp’s strategy to accelerate and simplify backup and recovery through the integration of NetApp Snapshot copies and replication with third-party backup management provided by innovative partners.

“NetApp is widely recognised as the leader in efficient, integrated data protection, and that’s one of many reasons we’re winning in shared IT infrastructures. We are at the forefront of a major shift in thinking around improving data protection to deliver outstanding efficiencies and enable enterprises to re-invest significant resources from ongoing operations to innovating for the future. With the introduction of our new SnapProtect solution, NetApp is building on its leadership in replication to address these new customer requirements,” said Chris Cummings, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing at NetApp.

“IT organistions are re-architecting their backup infrastructures to support today’s modern datacentre, contend with Big Data, improve SLA’s and right-size the exorbitant spend associated with antiquated approaches. Overcoming these challenges requires a radically different approach – one that tightly integrates data management software with array based snapshots and replication. Today’s announcement delivers on our promise to build innovative, high performance and cost effective solutions to solve companies’ most pressing data management challenges,” said David West, senior vice president, Marketing and Business Development at CommVault.