Commvault on Tuesday used its Commvault Future Ready virtual convention to showcase new technologies based on the acquisition of Hedvig, adding a complete for Kubernetes and a new control offering founded by hedvig.
The corporation has also particularly expanded its knowledge coverage and control software platform with new features and a new crisis recovery platform.
Commvault is a smart knowledge management, said Ranga Rajagopalan, vice president of supplier products in Trinton Falls, New Jersey.
“All classified ads are targeted at how consumers store, protect, optimize, and use data,” Rajagopalan told CRN.
Unsurprisingly, Commvault is now focusing on its Hedvig technology, said Glenn Dekhayser, technical director of Box at Red8, an answer provider based in Costa Mesa, California and Commvault’s distribution partner.
The deployment of the Hedvig generation is incredibly simple, Dekhayser told the NRC.
“Commvault understood,” he says. “Customers don’t care about the hardware used through Commvault technology. Commvault uses Gluster. Therefore, it is a smart technique for Commvault to bring Hedvig to market so that it can control one hundred percent of the technology. This is a wonderful price for Commvault and its customers.”
Commvault unveiled Tuesday’s primary adjustments to Hedvig’s distributed garage platform to make it the company’s default number one garage generation, its new HyperScale X device, which leverages Commvault’s Hedvig generation to provide an undeniable and flexible knowledge control solution for all workloads, adding virtual machines boxesArray, knowledge bases Etc.
Don Foster, Commvault‘s vice president of storage solutions, told CRN that HyperScale X will have several use cases starting with its deployment as a storage appliance optimized for Commvault-focused workloads, particularly for Kubernetes containers.
DevOps teams, rather than building a large container, generally build many smaller containers. This, and the widespread adoption of CSI, or container garage interface, leading to containers, requires a new way to manage Kubernetes, Foster said.
“Containers can run anywhere,” he said. ”So the HyperScale X has new policy capabilities and integrations specific to Kubernetes to let Kubernetes containers move from on-prem to on-prem or to or between multiple clouds while offering disaster recovery and high availability. This ensures that data gets replicated so DevOps can start a new branch of the data or sync to an older branch.”
HyperScale X will see an additional progression in the future, for programs such as deploying distributed knowledge at multiple high-availability sites for immediate crisis recovery, or as backup devices for other vendors who may need to write knowledge in a central location such as a HyperScale X device, Foster says.
Dekhayser said it would be attractive to see how Commvault alliance partners, such as NetApp and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, have their own major garage platforms and are lately partnering with Commvault for knowledge protection.
“Commvault is entering the number one garage market,” he said. “Will other partners see this as a risk? HPE can benefit from running Hyper-X software on HPE servers, but in this case, HPE only generates compute revenue. And NetApp will need to use its own infrastructure with Commvault software.”
Possible competition is always a concern, Foster said.
“However, we are working with [Commvault’s Vice President of Global Chains and Alliances] Mercer Rowe to make sure everyone stays in their own swimming lanes,” he said. “There are use cases where NetApp and HPE offer better solutions. No company can satisfy the wishes of each and every customer.”
Commvault is never going to be a heavy-iron physical storage vendor, Rajagopalan said. Instead, it will be more of a platform that stretches data between on-premises and cloud infrastructure where software-defined storage is key.
Instead, says Rajagopalan, Commvault remains the spouse of those companies. The company and NetApp brought NetApp’s scale-out knowledge coverage last month, allowing Commvault generation to provide knowledge coverage at flash speed, he said. Commvault, in recent weeks, has also just said that you have a dynamic HPE spouse.
“Storage is a huge market,” he said. “We don’t have the goal of dominating the market. There’s a lot to associate with.”
Commvault also introduced a new knowledge control portfolio on Tuesday that allowed it to split its Commvault Complete platform in two to simplify its operation with customers.
The first is Commvault Backup – Recovery, a new standalone product that safeguards and protects all workloads, adding containers, on-premises and virtual cloud workloads in on-site and cloud environments, a single platform.
The timing is Commvault Disaster Recovery, which, according to the company, provides a comprehensive generation for business continuity and verifiable knowledge recoverability in on-site and cloud environments.
Commvault Backup – Recovery and Commvault Disaster Recovery will be taken as separate products or grouped under the so-called Commvault Complete Data Protection, Rajagopalan said.
Rajagopalan said Commvault had proposed a crisis recovery from Commvault Complete’s old offering.
“But Commvault Disaster Recovery is an undeniable new solution for VMware environments, whether on-site and in the cloud, adding Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure,” he said. “Customers want a flexible solution for crisis recovery. And that’s where we come in.”
Commvault Backup – Recovery and Commvault Disaster Recovery use the same software image, and all quarterly updates will remain simple, recovery and Commvault Disaster Recovery said.
“The key is for consumers to look for more cloud-based capabilities,” he said. “They need the flexibility of licensing. So we’re giving them the ability to license precisely what they need. We also know that many service providers are not a strong and easy crisis recovery generation that they can use with third-party knowledge coverage programs.”
Although Commvault Backup – Recovery and Commvault Disaster Recovery are separated, when grouped as Commvault Complete Data Protection components, the total charge is less than the sum of the two, he said.
Rowe told CRN that the new knowledge coverage and crisis recovery offerings unveiled Tuesday also provide simplification for Commvault’s distribution partners.
“It’s about creating a lot of new ‘fine corner edges’ to keep customers’ doors open,” he said. “We are in favor of express use cases. Partners will offer many other products. Yes, it’s a packaging problem, but it’s at the heart of what partners are looking to do for customers.”
Partner training for the new software is now available and certifications are being updated, Rowe said.
Partners who have worked with Commvault Complete in the future will be temporarily updated in Commvault Complete Data Protection, he said.
“A partner comfortable with selling Complete can sell the essentially same package with the new name, or break it up, or extend it with other offerings,” he said.