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Commvault strikes strategic partnership with Google Cloud

By VARINDIA - 2017-11-10

Commvault has announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud to help enterprises leverage the range of cloud services available on one of the industry’s fastest growing cloud platforms, Google Cloud Platform. According to the company, the partnership will be highlighted at Commvault GO, Commvault’s annual customer event, with a keynote delivered by Google executive Adam Massey on how this new relationship addresses the increasing need for data protection for fast growing multi-cloud, hybrid IT environments requiring flexibility, security, high data availability, and business agility.

The partnership announcement with Google Cloud Platform outlines new opportunities for joint enterprise customers to scale faster, innovate easier, and more securely protect, store and use data in the cloud. By supporting all four Google Cloud Platform storage classes for content repositories – Coldline, Nearline, Regional and Multi-Regional – Commvault helps customers optimize their cloud investments byenabling them to achieve the right balance between access and cost economics of data storage. Google also made its cloud platform available for the India region today with option for making payment in Rupees. With this partnership, Commvault will enable businesses in India to have speed, security and analytics they need to grow.

“Our enterprise customers are looking for support for their migration strategies to Google Cloud Platform,” said Adam Massey, Director of Strategic Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud. “And with that comes a requirement for comprehensive data protection. Commvault will help our customers accelerate their migration by making it easier and faster to move data to Google Cloud Platform.”

Commvault compression and global deduplication help enterprises rapidly and cost-effectively move huge volumes of data to Google Cloud Platform. Across on-premises and cloud storage locations, the Commvault platform provides a single comprehensive view of data, making it simpler and more cost-effective to manage data and satisfy regulatory requirements. With Commvault, industry standard encryption secures data in motion and at rest, providing additional peace of mind in meeting security and compliance requirements.

Through the strategic partnership, Commvault and Google Cloud are empowering enterprises to transform their businesses by deploying a single solution for holistic data management, including data backup, recovery, management and e-discovery across on-premises, Google Cloud Platform and other cloud environments.

“Enterprise customers need flexibility to ensure high availability and reduced risk across their entire data infrastructure, which is why we support so many cloud storage options,” saidN. Robert Hammer, Chairman, President and CEO, Commvault.“Our analytics on cloud usage and recent surveyscontinue to reinforce the increasing need for the Google Cloud Platform as a high performance, flexible and reliable option for customers. Through the power of the Commvault Data Platform, we’re helping enterprise customers in both the public and private sectors takeadvantage of the capabilities of Google Cloud Platform as they continue on their multi-cloud journey.”

Commvault helps Google Cloud Platform customers securely and optimally move, manage and use data. Commvault supports most common enterprise-class applications running inside Google Cloud Engine, including various file systems on Windows, Unix and Linux. Applications and databases, such as SAP, Exchange, Oracle and DB2 are supported, as are big data applications such as GPFS, Mongo DB, Hadoop and more. Commvault also offers data management capabilities on Google Cloud Platformfor GSuite applications such as Gmail and Google Drive,including backup, recovery and management.

Commvault and Google Cloud Platform: Accelerating Cloud Computing

The Commvault platform’ssupport for Google Cloud Platform includes:

• Data protection to support large-scale lift-and-shift cloud projects.

• Fast, comprehensive search across multiple cloud storage locations with asingle consolidated view of data wherever it lives.

• Support to move, manage and use data across all four Google Cloud Storage classes: Coldline, Nearline, Regional and Multi-Regional.

• Data redundancy to any Google Cloud Storage class.

• Ability to recover data where it’s needed – on-premises, to another cloud storage location, or to another cloud.

• Optimization of data storage:the flexibility to create large deduplicated storage pools, but with granular controls to move data and workloads to, from and across clouds and across regions within a single cloud.

• Fast data protection with enhanced security for enterprise-class applications running inside Google Cloud Platform, with data protection for a wide variety of enterprise IT initiatives:

o Applications including common file systems on Windows and Linux operating systems.

o Applications and databases such as SQL Exchange, Oracle, DB2.

o SaaS applications such as Office 365.

o Big data applications such as GPFS, MongoDB, Hadoop, and others.

o Custom application backup using Commvault APIs.

• Support for Gmail and Google Drive – Backup to and recovery from the Google Cloud Platform with comprehensive management from the single Commvault platform.