With 45-60% of today’s data consumed by secondary workloads according to a report by IDC[1],enterprises face increasing demand to find new value in secondary storage as a means to drive key business and IT transformation initiatives, while keeping costs within control and maintaining visibility into their data. ScaleProtect TM with Cisco UCS supports this environment by providing a unified, modern data protection and management platform that delivers cloud-like services on-premises. The solution also enables enterprises to eliminate costly existing point solutions that do not scale and lack visibility into secondary data.
"Unprecedented data growth, multi-cloud complexity, fragmented backup silos, sprawling applications, regulatory compliance, and the need for analytics continue to pressure companies," said Archana Venkatraman, Research Manager at IDC. "Many organisations are finding that multiple, point-based data management tools are adding to complexities affecting storage performance, efficiency, and costs. Consolidating all secondary storage workloads (from backup to test and development) in a scale-out infrastructure, with converged data protection, native cloud integration, and automated DR capabilities can bring real benefits to organisations and make data a business enabler."
Today’s announcement builds upon the recent launch of Commvault HyperScale™ Technology, two powerful, cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings – an all-in-one appliance and a reference architecture model – that provide customers with a new level of management simplicity and scale for managing secondary data on premises. As the first solution launched as a Commvault HyperScale ™ Software reference architecture, ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS delivers these benefits as well as seamless integration with storage arrays, hypervisors, applications and the full range of cloud provider solutions to support the most diverse and dynamic enterprise and hybrid cloud environments.
“The combination of Cisco and Commvault continue to deliver world class Data Protection solutions to our customers leveraging our extensive Data Center Portfolio,” said Satinder Sethi, VP, Unified Computing System & Datacenter Solutions, Cisco. “For the new Commvault ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS solution, Cisco brings a proven Fabric Based Data Centre architecture and turn key management that has delivered exceptional value to our customers and partners in their data center modernisation journey.”
ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS Available to Customers through Cisco and its Powerful Network of Resellers
ScaleProtect TM with Cisco UCS, which continues the growing relationship between Cisco and Commvault, is available to customers through the Cisco SolutionsPlus program and will be available directly from Cisco’s Global Price List, making it easy for Cisco and its powerful network of resellers to sell and deliver to the market. Commvault joins the Cisco SolutionsPlus Program at a time when enterprise and midmarket customers are facing increased data challenges fueled by the exponential growth in the amount of data to store, manage and analyse, and the ever-increasing risk of security breaches. Commvault mitigates this challenge through its robust data platform that defends against the growing variety of threats, while providing customers the flexibility to reliably manage data stored in the data centre and in the cloud.
“We are glad to see Commvault’s poweful scale-out data protection software for the enterprise is now available as a Cisco SKU through ScaleProtect™ with Cisco UCS®,” said Scott Miller, Sr. Director of Data Centre, World Wide Technology. “Today’s launch extends on Commvault’s successful relationship with Cisco to help customers easily protect, manage and optimise data on Cisco solutions such as Cisco UCS, Cisco HyperFlex, and FlashStack. We look forward to bringing this new, uniquely-bundled solution to market as a game-changing alternative to existing scale-out solutions that have failed to deliver on expectations.”
Commvault and Cisco Bring Scale-Out Data Protection Solutions to the Enterprise
ScaleProtect TM with Cisco UCS provides customers the following benefits and capabilities:
- Agility, resiliency and availability of data and applications, both on-premises and in the cloud
- Setup, management and upgrade simplicity
- Commvault Data Platform’s high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, including simply powerful automation, orchestration and self-service
- Powerful new scale-out infrastructure combined with data management and protection, enabling systems consolidation and elimination of point-product solution silos
- Modular scalability to grow with the needs of the business, including non-disruptive capacity and performance expansion
- Built-in resiliency (erasure-coding with no single point of failure)
- Streamlined support, centralised patch management, and active monitoring
- Better TCO versus legacy scale-up solutions with lower procurement cost & operational overhead
- Scale-out capacity that can start small and scale to PetaBytes seamlessly
“We are excited that the industry leader in data center infrastructure and the industry leader in data protection have worked together to create a solution that delivers a new level of simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing secondary data,” said N. Robert Hammer, Chairman, President and CEO, Commvault. “ScaleProtect™ with UCS, the powerful combination of Commvault HyperScale™ Technology and the computing and networking power of Cisco UCS, provides unparalleled performance and cost effectiveness for a range of use cases, including data centre consolidation, infrastructure modernisation, digital transformation, growing multiple location footprints, and business-critical application and dev/test performance.”
