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Treating data throughout its life cycle, from its creation to its storage, analysis, compliance, governance, access, or treatment, is vital for any company. Commvault makes it easy for organizations to manage and protect data, regardless of location: Backup and recovery. The value of data continues to grow, making data protection more important than ever. Commvault Complete™ Backup & Recovery includes data protection and management services for file systems, applications, databases, virtual machines, cloud environments, mailboxes, and user stations. All backup and recovery management features are centrally available in a single, easy-to-use user interface.

Despite an economic environment that shrinks IT budgets globally, 44 percent of users of CommVault Systems storage technology said they plan to invest in new CommVault Systems products throughout 2009. In particular, Simpana 8 is the first management suite that incorporates integrated global data deduplication functionality and has been built from a single platform. In addition, 100 percent of CommVault Systems' technology users indicated their intention not to switch to another storage software vendor. According to the analysis that TheInfoProTM carries out of both large companies included in the Fortune 1,000 index and medium-sized companies, the redesign of their data backup and recovery processes has become one of the fundamental elements of its strategic IT policy. In addition, they warn that this approach implies a radical change in the architecture, design, and development of their data management platforms to adapt to the new challenges posed by the market.

Our latest report on storage solutions reinforces CommVault Systems' position as a company capable of continuing to generate business from end-user demand, in contrast to stagnating other vendors. CommVault is the only storage software vendor that has continued to grow over the past three years.

The hybrid, multi-cloud world allows enterprises to freely choose where they place their workloads based on audit, policy, or security compliance requirements. This explains the directive and generates independent architectures that require different software products and systems with various vendors. The use of containers and APIs is one of the ways to deal with this complexity in a multi-cloud deployment, "and in this sense, Commvault covers Kubernetes and all the APIs that may be necessary within a company." But most importantly, "is that with Commvault, we guarantee the ability to not depend on third parties. We are the only company that can make conversions between practically all the clouds on the market. For example, we can take a copy of a virtual machine from Azure to Amazon or Google simply with a backup and restore process, without any external tool and the need for any third-party technology.