The dedicated CommVault division at Workgroup has announced several new Simpana software product innovations that deliver elevated levels of data protection and application agility, while enabling organisations to simplify the management of their infrastructures for efficient IT operations and cost savings.
“Simpana, with its Universal Virtual Server Agent, delivers customers functionality that includes global, embedded content-aware deduplication; true, block-level image backup; cross-platform data recovery; and Virtual Machine (VM) auto-discovery that extends not only during initial installation, but also throughout ongoing deployment of virtual machines,” says Stephen Moore, CommVault product manager at Workgroup.
“Its singular information management approach to simplifying server virtualisation deployment and management helps eliminate the need to separately install, configure and manage multiple agents to protect multiple virtual machines.”
By optimising backup and recovery, as well as archiving storage utilisation, Simpana helps businesses achieve consistent and reliable data protection to facilitate fast and cost-effective disaster recovery and elevated business continuity.
Additional capabilities in Simpana 8 have been introduced to address customer priorities for managing server virtualisation, including:
* VMotion awareness for automatically and transparently tracking the location of a virtual machine, which ensures the continuity of virtual machine protection.
* Cross-platform data recovery - from physical to virtual, virtual to virtual or virtual to physical - restores data volumes regardless of where the data resides.
* Support for proxy server and hot-add mode offers greater flexibility by deploying VMware data protection through a separate physical server or existing virtual machine.
* Enhanced throttling enables organisations to fine-tune VMware data protection through configurable parameters that control the number of simultaneous VM backups or time delays between backup initiations to maximise concurrency.
* Operational efficiency is increased with single-pass backup support with single-step recovery of virtual machines, data volumes or individual files hosted on Microsoft Windows guest operating systems.
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