Storage Magazine named Simpana software 2009 Gold Product of the Year

GOLD AWARD:


Great news! Storage Magazine named Simpana software 2009 Gold Product of the Year in the category of backup and disaster recovery software.

An independent panel of judges (including users, analysts, consultants, and Storage/SearchStorage.com editors) evaluated hundreds of storage industry products and selected what they consider to be the cream of the crop in innovation and customer value. It is a great honor to be recognized, particularly because the Top 10 finalists in our category included IBM TSM, CA, Visioncore vRanger and VMware Data Recovery (VDR) 1.

One of the judges said it best when describing Simpana, "...an incredibly functional product that integrates more into [one product] than most vendors even offer as separate products."

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CommVault Systems Inc. Simpana 8
You can't accuse the folks over at CommVault of resting on their laurels. With this year's gold award
for its Simpana 8 backup suite, CommVault is making its fourth trip to the winner's circle, having
snared gold in 2002 (Galaxy 4.1), 2003 (QiNetix 4.2) and 2007 (Simpana 7.0 Software Suite) -- not
only a record for our Products of the Year, but probably one for product name changes, too.

CommVault's users are also impressed. The company has finished in the top spot three of the four
times we've conducted our Quality Awards survey that reflects users' satisfaction related to quality,
reliability and support.

CommVault continues to enhance its flagship product. Simpana 8 boasts a slew of new or beefed-up
features. Version 8's advanced block-level data deduplication extends Simpana 7's capability by
taking a global approach and building it into not only the backup process but the archiving module
as well. In an industry first, Simpana 8 can dedupe data on tape to reduce the number of archive
tapes a company needs to maintain. The product can also dedupe remote site backups and
consolidate all deduplication results in a database.

Among Simpana 8's other enhancements are new data protection features for remote offices and
mobile users. Continuous data protection can capture all writes to disk and then replicate those
changes back to the data center. In addition, backups that are deduped at the remote site can be
replicated to the central site. Remote data protection can extend to the edge. The Workstation
Backup Agent can be installed remotely on PCs where it monitors writes and sends only changed
blocks to a central server from which the data can be compressed and encrypted, and backed up or
archived to a central site. CommVault says a single server can support hundreds of laptops and
desktops, and end users can use a Web interface to do their own file recoveries.

CommVault's integrated toolkit approach to data protection has turned a lot of users into fans. One
of our judges said Simpana 8 is "an incredibly functional product that integrates more into the
complete suite than most vendors even offer as separate products."


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