GEC NEWS WIRECommvault and INFINIDAT revealed a strategic partnership to deliver a single data protection solution to large enterprises for primary and secondary storage uses cases. Together, Commvault and INFINIDAT will help organizations protect data on-premises and in the cloud, increasing business agility, IT efficiency and reliability.
Through the partnership, INFINIDAT and its network of resellers can now sell and deliver Commvault Software to customers at a time when large enterprises are facing increased data challenges fueled by the exponential growth in the amount of data they need to store, manage and analyze, and the ever-increasing risk of security breaches.
By combining the power of Commvault Software with INFINIDAT storage arrays, customers gain a complete, highly-differentiated data protection solution that is fully integrated to protect large business critical applications and meet the most stringent backup and recovery performance SLAs.
“Our partnership to deliver a single data protection solution to large enterprises fits our industry sweet spot for helping petabyte-scale customers transform their IT architectures, while also extending our relationship with an innovative, enterprise-proven storage company,” said N. Robert Hammer, Chairman, President and CEO, Commvault.
“This partnership will help solve traditional data protection challenges customers face, providing unmatched performance and reliability at scale and freeing up resources that allow enterprises to focus on their growth,” said Moshe Yanai, INFINIDAT Chairman and CEO.
Christie Digital, a global visual, audio and collaboration solutions company offering diverse solutions for business, entertainment and industry, has been leveraging Commvault Software with INFINIDAT for about a year to make it easier to recover from user-inflicted scenarios, increase reliability and reduce backup timeframes.
“By combining the power of Commvault and INFINIDAT, we have a single and fully integrated solution for delivering high performance backup SLAs that meet or exceed the requirements of our business,” said Scott Elliott, Senior Manager, Infrastructure, Christie Digital. “Time and time again, we have been able to shrug off ransomware and other attacks to get our servers back up and running in minutes – all while leveraging first-class storage from INFINIDAT managed by Commvault’s holistic data platform. As a result, Commvault and INFINIDAT give us that rock-solid assurance that our data is protected, freeing up IT’s attention to focus on our digital transformation initiatives.”
The new partnership between Commvault and INFINIDAT provides customers with the opportunity to install Commvault IntelliSnap, a technology solution that makes snapshots more valuable and effective at protecting and recovering data, in conjunction with InfiniSnap, INFINIDAT’s solution that offers instantaneous recovery without any performance and time impact to an application. InfiniSnap is fully integrated with Commvault IntelliSnap technology to support advanced snap management and application consistency data protection, lowering cost for non-production copies.
“Our large customers are increasingly contending with the need to rapidly deliver modernized data protection solutions that are easier to implement, operate and deliver massive scale with high performance. We are delighted to bring the power of the joint innovation from Commvault and INFINIDAT in solving those toughest data protection challenges for our customers,” said Vincent Chang, President at Arrosoft Solutions.
