Johannesburg, 15 Jun 2009
CommVault Systems (NASDAQ: CVLT) and McAfee (NYSE: MFE) announced the availability of integrated data and security management features using the two companies' respective data management, backup and security solutions.
McAfee and CommVault align to offer customers, for the first time, their integrated enterprise solutions that manage security beyond the endpoint to include data and network protection. These integrated features are also designed to help reduce costs and improve threat protection and compliance management.
"With an ever-increasing number of security threats, aligning data backup, recovery, and archive requirements with security beyond the endpoints has never been more important. IT administrators need to know they have both an appropriate solution to identify vulnerabilities before company data integrity is compromised and cost-effective backup options for rapid data recovery. The combination of industry leaders, CommVault and McAfee, provides customers with more a more integrated security/data management solution without additional IT cost or complexity,” said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.
With the availability of the compatible McAfee-CommVault solutions, end-users can now more easily manage security risk and data backup, recovery, and archive from a single console to provide customers faster and more concise decision-making about data integrity, security, and protection status.
The integration between the award-winning CommVault Simpana enterprise data management software suite and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePOTM) centralised management platform provides customers with actionable information regarding the status of protected data managed by CommVault Simpana software. Using a built-in connector from CommVault, event information related to backup status can be shared within a custom McAfee ePO dashboard to synthesise reporting efficiencies and provide ease of use for administrators to monitor multiple systems at the same time.
"There's never been a more challenging economic and regulatory environment. IT and legal need to work hand-in-glove to provide insight into real-time vulnerabilities while minimising business level risks," said David West, vice-president of marketing and business development, CommVault. "The CommVault-McAfee integration gives businesses a powerful tool to speed decision-making and proactively handle today's security and data management challenges. Our partnership with McAfee is proof of our continued effort to deliver customers the best solutions through strategic industry alliances. We're excited by the successes to date with our joint efforts and look forward to continuing to explore other synergies between McAfee and CommVault."
Additionally, under a new worldwide sales teaming agreement, both companies will align their respective sales teams to capitalise on the market opportunity where data management, data protection and security purchasing decisions converge. The agreement is designed to help synergise efforts in existing and new customer opportunities where there is demand for integrated, best-of-breed data protection and security solutions.
This announcement reinforces the ongoing commitment of both companies to provide customers with solutions that address both security risk and data protection. The integrated solution will not only help to reduce the complexity in customers' IT environments but also serve to improve protection and lower the total cost of ownership (TCO).
"McAfee is committed to delivering administrators the information they need to make the most informed decisions when it comes to addressing both their data protection and security needs," said Dave Scholtz, senior vice-president of worldwide partner alliances at McAfee. "The availability of integrated solutions through our ongoing partnership with CommVault reinforces both companies' commitment to offer an integrated data and risk management solution that is simple and cost-effective to deploy."
InfoReliance speaks to benefits of tighter integration between McAfee, CommVault for lower TCO, improved threat, data protection
InfoReliance is a rapidly growing IT firm that builds, deploys and manages custom, Web-based software solutions that transform the business operations of federal government and defence agencies. The company is known for delivering large-scale, highly complex software applications for defence and civilian organisations.
InfoReliance has helped dozens of agencies automate lines of business and leverage their technology investments by providing exceptional IT counsel, first-class products and services and on-time, on-budget implementations.
“We already rely on McAfee and CommVault solutions to manage and protect our enterprise data. Now, the tight integration between McAfee and CommVault will provide us a way to monitor the important data we create with increased security and an overall simplified management approach. Using these integrated solutions, we will be able to view the data protection state of our end point clients to identify conditions such as the backup status. If a proscribed event occurs within the monitored environment, it will trigger an alert notification immediately through the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Dashboard. This will be an enormous benefit to us and drive a more proactive response to mitigating risk, while helping us meet our critical data protection objectives for recovery,” said John Chirhart, IT Consultant, InfoReliance Corporation.
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