Combining Commvault’s next generation active defense and automation data protection capabilities with the scale and performance of the VAST Data Platform, the two companies will provide a robust, highly scalable and performant solution designed to help enterprise customers return to business following a data loss event like a ransomware attack.
As VAST and Commvault embark to deliver more tightly integrated data protection and security solutions to customers and partners the duo have announced a new, significant investment in their strategic alliance. The first milestone in this multistep initiative to integrate Commvault’s enterprise-class data protection software suite with the VAST Data Platform will be to deliver a co-engineered solution for the needs of the ransomware era, based on real-world customer deployments, intended to maximize the recovery of critical data assets protected by Commvault data protection software on VAST infrastructure.
“VAST has emerged as an industry trailblazer and Commvault is proud to have a strong technology and strategic alliance to enable customers to build cyber-resilient infrastructure with our co-designed scalable data protection solution. Through this partnership and our upcoming joint offering, we’re helping solution and service providers and their customers to protect, secure, and ultimately recover their data at a much faster rate – keeping their business up and running, even in the wake of an attack,” said Alan Atkinson, Chief Partner Officer, Commvault.
Together, this new validated design from VAST and Commvault will offer differentiated capabilities that help organizations keep data secure with built-in protocols that drive compliance, detection and monitoring to increase visibility and accelerate response times, and first-class recoverability to thwart data loss, restore quickly and maintain business continuity. By architecting Commvault’s platform to take advantage of VAST’s all-flash read performance, this validated design will optimize instant recovery with a fast, space efficient, highly scalable system that removes data silos to safeguard data wherever it is across clouds, data centers, SaaS apps, containers, and the edge.
“Expedient is partnering with VAST and Commvault to deliver to our customers the most innovative IT solutions in the market. Through these partnerships, we’re improving the performance, reliability, and scalability for our customers, resulting in a higher service level, improved recovery time and ultimately better business outcomes for the short and long term,” said Bryan Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Expedient.
Commvault and VAST’s secure, comprehensive data protection solutions leverage advanced security features like Commvault’s Metallic ThreatWise, multi-factor authentication, administrative workflows, Object Lock, and VAST’s Indestructible Snapshots. With rich security integrations, real-time data infrastructure and leading security tools to accelerate incident response, automate countermeasures, and connect IT and security teams, Commvault and VAST are helping organizations to surface zero-day, unknown, and insider cyber threats, further mitigating exposure to bad actors and Ransomware attacks.
“This is a great step in our continued partnership with Commvault, bringing organizations a joint solution that provides protection and recovery from ransomware and cyber attacks while optimizing performance, cost, and efficiency. Our customers and partners love our ability to recover data faster and at a lower TCO than their previous data protection solutions by reducing the amount of data stored, consolidating infrastructure, and helping them meet their sustainability goals – all while moving toward a future-proof, AI-ready data platform. This validated design that we’re currently working on together will take that to the next level, and I can’t wait to see all the great innovation that will follow,” said Michael Wing, President at VAST Data.
The consumption models within the upcoming jointly validated design allow customers to consume data protection as it suits their business – without compromise. This flexible model simplifies the procurement process for both customers and partners by detailing the bill of material required. Combining Commvault deduplication and compression with VAST’s Similarity-based data reduction, the solution delivers network bandwidth reduction and superior storage savings to offer a cost point equivalent to HDD-based backup appliances, with over one hundred times better restore performance.
