Contributed ArticleCommvault has announced that Metallic Backup-as-a-Service, BaaS, solutions are now available in the UAE and wider Middle East region. The solutions include Metallic’s enterprise-grade offerings including Metallic Office 365 Backup and Recovery, Metallic Endpoint Backup and Recovery and Metallic Core Backup and Recovery. With this expanded availability, customers are now better able to seamlessly address growing business concerns around cost, scalability, and security as they protect critical data.
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the cloud migration. Metallic BaaS solution offers ease of management and infrastructure saving. With the rise of the remote culture, a lot of data traffic is moving outside office premises, Metallic solutions help in protecting that data.
Commvault differentiates itself from competitors by offering the enterprise-grade applications on-premise as well as on the cloud. The customers’ transformation journey thus becomes seamless. Commvault partners are also enabled and ready to offer this technology.
Through a tight engineering collaboration with Microsoft, Metallic is able to integrate Microsoft Azure’s secure and compliant platform offerings and tools that help to address General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, compliance at a foundational level.
Designed for the modern enterprise as a truly cloud-native solution, Metallic uses Azure and Commvault’s Data Protection platform to deliver comprehensive BaaS solutions with single pane of glass management across SaaS, on-prem, public cloud native, and hybrid workloads.
Metallic Backup and Recovery has been engineered to offer industry-leading data protection in support of customers’ Data Sovereignty and GDPR compliance efforts. To be GDPR compliant, companies must meet strict standards for accountability, security, confidentiality, and resilience. Metallic offerings deliver the capability to monitor compliance policies and the amount and types of data stored, providing users with the expertise and capabilities to fulfill stringent GDPR compliance obligations.
Wael Mustafa, Area Vice President, Middle East, South Africa and Turkey, MESAT, at Commvault said, “We are thrilled to announce the rollout of Metallic in the Middle East as we accelerate the availability of our Backup-as-a-Service solutions internationally to help customers manage the rapid, Covid-induced shift to remote work. Businesses are making the move to the cloud, and while this provides them with agility and flexibility, it is critical that data and information is protected in line with regulations. Commvault’s backup solutions including Metallic, provide unmatched flexibility with a breadth of enterprise workload support and rapid pace of innovation.”
