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You can now view on-demand our customer webinar introducing Commvault Platform Release 2023 (CPR2023). Thomas Bryant, Director of Product Marketing and Sudha Iyer, Principal Product Manager, share the key innovations in the release, including stronger data security and protection, expanded support for hybrid and multi-Cloud environments, and improvements to help drive smart cost savings. Get details and view the webinar here.You can also find out more about CPR2023 today in the Platform Release section of the Community (for customers and partners) or Ranga’s blog post. As always, we welcome questions and feedback here in the community.

What started as Data Privacy Day in 2007 has now evolved into a full Data Privacy Week as data privacy continues to grow in importance. To celebrate Data Privacy throughout 2023, we have assembled a series of expert panels and blogs to help our customers, partners, and ecosystem to understand and prepare for increasingly demanding data privacy and management regulations. It’s (always) a good time to familiarize yourself with some of the new developments worldwide. Data Privacy (Week) Best Practices: An Expert PanelWe brought together three opinion leaders to discuss the key data privacy challenges that face businesses around the world and how to overcome them. Bill Mew, Data Privacy Champion and CEO of the Crisis Team is joined by Jakub Lewandowski – Global Data Governance Officer, Commvault and Thomas Bryant – Product Marketing Director, Commvault to discuss industry trends and best practices. View the conversation here> 5 Essential Data Privacy Regulations for Businesses to Know i

We’re thrilled to be ranked in the GigaOm Radar report for Kubernetes Data Protection for the third year in a row! Download the report today and find out why Commvault was called an “Outperformer.” Go there now >

To close out 2022, please join us in celebrating our three inaugural Customer Innovation Awards winners.The program debuted and winners were announced at Connections 2022. They were selected for their outstanding innovation in the implementation of Commvault data solutions across three categories:Digital Transformation – Penn State Health Automation of Data – RWTH Aachen University Governance & Compliance – Tata Consultancy Services Penn State Health (Digital Transformation)Penn State Health is a 17,500-employee hospital network utilizing Commvault not only to ensure life-saving operations continue, but also to maintain compliance, records management, patient confidentiality and data privacy that support the healthcare provider’s business operations.   RWTH Aachen University (Automation of Data)RWTH Aachen University IT center manages all IT operations for the university and a wider group of Commvault user academic institutions across the local area in Germany. With significant inv

  Thank you to our Commvault & Metallic Community for sharing your time, expertise, great questions, and ideas throughout the year. Our warmest wishes for the holiday season and the New Year!

We’ve concluded the global Connections on the Road series EMEA and Asia Pacific stops. Check out the highlights and on-demand videos here.The Connections on the Road events brought together experts to help drive data protection, data security, and data compliance programs and opportunities to network with colleagues in cities around the world. Be sure to stay tuned here in the Commvault Community and on Commvault.com for future events!   

Join us in December for our holiday webinars! Celebrate the holidays with Commvault, NetApp, and AWS!December 15 Join Commvault, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp for an exclusive festive event with Lego Master Tyler Clites and receive a Holiday themed Lego kit.* This session will spotlight how our tight integration allows you to adopt a data-centric approach that optimizes your operational efficiency and resiliency – while ensuring your environment is built to easily embrace new modern applications and services in the cloud. Click here to learn more and register.*While supplies last. Public Sector and Government employees are reminded to ensure that their participation and acceptance of this giveaway drawing are permitted by applicable rules and regulations   (Registration now closed) Step into SecurityDecember 8This session will spotlight how our modern ransomware detection service, Metallic® ThreatWise™, actively engages and surfaces unknown and zero-day threats the moment an att

Commvault Connections 2022 is now available to view on-demand!If you registered before, you can use the personalized link that was sent by e-mail to access the sessions. Or, if not, you can also click here to sign in and view on-demand.  Don’t miss the Meet the Experts sessions running Nov. 15 & 17, depending on your region. 

As a continuation of Connections 22, we are excited to announce Commvault’s “Meet the Experts” sessions for 2022!On November 15 and November 17, 2022, customers will have the opportunity to ask Commvault experts about their environments, discuss challenges and opportunities to optimize, gain insight into what is coming in future releases, and more. Spots are filling quickly, so don’t miss out! As with Connections, you can choose to attend sessions in your preferred region or time zone. Find the agenda, session and speaker details, and register here.  

We’re very excited to share Connections 22 with our extended Commvault Community!Whether you’re a veteran of past Commvault events or this will be your first Commvault event, we have a ton of great new content planned, and also quite a few ways to engage and interact with Commvault experts, our sponsors, and your peers. You can find the complete agenda and speaker details here - and make sure to register if you haven’t already. And check out this preview of the technical tracks from Ranga, Commvault’s head of Products.  In addition to the information- and innovation-packed keynote, panel, roadmap and Solution track sessions, I wanted to highlight other new aspects of the Connections 22 virtual event format and experience. (For those of you who joined us for Connections 21, we’re excited to debut a new event platform this year with more ways to participate and engage.) Here are a few of the highlights and reasons to join us live...A truly global eventConnections 22 will run across 3 reg

Read up on the latest innovations from Commvault in enhancing data security in this new blog post from Ranga Rajagopalan, SVP, Products at Commvault. Ranga shares a deeper look into how the recently released Commvault Platform Release 2022E helps our customers better protect their data. Find details on the general availability of Metallic® ThreatWise™, an early warning system that proactively surfaces unknown and zero-day threats to minimize compromised data and business impact, in our announcement here. Stay tuned for future product updates and deep-dives into the 2022E release. Be sure to join us at Connections 22 for more!

At this year’s Connections event, we want to shine the spotlight on the amazing things our customers are doing with data, and how they – you! – are creating innovation for their businesses.We are excited to announce the inaugural Commvault Customer Innovation Awards. These will be given to projects from all over the globe.Three categories of project will be highlighted in these first awards:Digital Transformation Automation of Data Governance & ComplianceAfter reviewing more than 100 incredible nominations, we’ve selected nine finalists who have embraced cutting-edge approaches to cloud data management to modernize their businesses.  Throughout the Connections 22 event, we will be announcing the winner of each category. Please stay tuned throughout the event to hear more about them and their projects.The finalists, representing seven different countries, are: Arvest Bank (US), Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (Malaysia), Baptist Medical Center (US), Diagnostyka S.A (Poland), Penn State H

Connections 2022 will be packed with with keynotes, technical tracks, customer conversations, and partner sessions to help you innovate with confidence. Check out this preview from Ranga Rajagopalan, Commvault’s VP of Product Management.Be sure to register and view the full schedule and agenda here!  We look forward to seeing you November 2 or 3 (depending on your region) and to sharing more details ahead of the event. Keep an eye out here in the Community, and be sure to follow @Commvault and #CVConnections22 on Twitter and LinkedIn for the latest updates.

Hello, Community!The Commvault web team is looking for customers and partners to participate in a quick (5 - 10 minute) online survey about our Commvault.com home page redesign. If you’re interested, like this post, reply or send me a DM.Later we’ll send you an email with a link to the survey and award points toward our online store. Your help is appreciated!  

October is jam-packed at Commvault and Metallic. Of course we’re gearing up for Connections 22 the first week of November (make sure to join us!) - and there are many other exciting happenings to share this month.For the latest updates and to join the conversation, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and at the hashtags below, or drop us a line here in the Community.  Microsoft Ignite (Oct. 12-14)Today’s organizations face new pressures that challenge business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategies. Join David Ngo, Metallic CTO, and David Totten, Microsoft CTO, for an on-demand session as they discuss key considerations for your BCDR strategy, the benefits of unified data management, and how Metallic + Azure safeguard your data – wherever it lives. Metallic turns 3! #monthofmetallicCan you believe Commvault's DMaaS portfolio is turning 3?! Throughout October, we'll be sharing how Metallic stands apart as the gold standard in SaaS-delivered data protection.Join us October 14 f

Innovate with Confidence  Join us November 2 - 3 for Commvault Connections 2022. A truly global event, Connections 22 includes keynotes, a customer panel, innovation roadmap and technical sessions with experts and partners to help you accelerate your business transformations and go on offense to halt ransomware attacks and other threats. We’re also excited to announce our inaugural Customer Innovation Awards showcasing cutting-edge use of cloud data management!Click here to get all the details on agenda, schedule, and register today.    Join us from the region and time that is best for you: Americas: November 2nd at 11:00 AM EDT EMEA: November 3rd at 9:00 AM GMT APJ: November 3rd at 11:30 AM SGT Be sure to follow @Commvault on Twitter and LinkedIn for the latest updates leading up to the events, and tag #CVConnections22 to join the conversation.

Good day community members,Thank you everyone for making this community such an amazing place to ask, learn, and discuss.  We couldn’t do any of this without all of you!As you may have noticed, we’re starting to improve the layout of the site and its content to help get you to the right location faster.Today, we added some new sections to organize our immense content better:Virtualization - Anything related to virtualization, hypervisors, AppAware, etc. Deduplication and Storage - Library questions, Dedupe concerns, and sizing Developer Tools - REST API, Workflows, scripting, customization, and moreAnalyzing the tag usage, these 3 represent a very large portion of our content.  We’ll be keeping an eye on new posts and moving as needed, as well as adding more sections once the volume makes it necessary.For anyone who just created a thread, or bookmarked anything, no need to adjust anything.  The platform will redirect you as needed.If you have any thoughts or suggestions about the commu

You may recall seeing @Damian Andre writing about our new, improved Search Experience: To continue that conversation, I wanted to share some parameters you can use to enhance your search-fu 🤓one of our own greats, @Mathew Ericson asked me how to search for the word stateless, but without Kubernetes.  That’s absolutely possible, along with a bunch of other cool examples.Take a look, give them a try, and let me know if you have any feedback!- (Minus, Hyphen, or Dash Character)The item must not contain the exact term preceded by the - prefix and a space. The exclusion prefix (-) is equivalent to using NOT before a term (see Boolean Operators and Using Special Characters in Queries).Applies to string content.report -technicalFinds items that contain report but don’t contain technical.@field=( , ) (Parentheses and Comma With Field Queries)The field must contain at least one of the values isolated by parentheses and separated by commas.This is equivalent to using the OR operator between ter

Commvault is honored to be named a Leader 11 consecutive times in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions.We’re very proud of this achievement, and we couldn’t have done it without you, our amazing community of customers and partners!To download the full report, visit: https://www.commvault.com/itleadersAnd thank you for entrusting us to protect and manage your critical data! 

While many may assume the native data protection in Office 365 is serving their backup and retention needs, there are limitations that can put your business’s data at risk. Fortunately, there are ways to safeguard and enhance your Office 365 data through our SaaS data management solution for backup, recovery and extended retention. Commvault has compiled a collection of resources around protecting, retaining, and optimizing your Microsoft Office 365 data. Check out the collection, and as always feel free to post your questions here in the community.Protecting your Microsoft Office 365 Data eBook The Imperative for Office 365 Data Protection and the “Shared Responsibility” Model A Multi-Layered Approach to Securing Critical Office 365 Workloads Metallic™ Office 365 TCO Case Study: Dialog DCIG Solution Profile: Office 365 Online SaaS Backup Solutions Commvault Complete Customers: Loyalty Program Protecting your Microsoft Office 365 Data eBookYour organization’s Office 365 data is preciou

Worried about how to plan your journey to the cloud? Commvault has you covered! This webinar offers an itinerary to help guide your journey, including: How to ensure the protection and availability of modern and legacy workloads in your hybrid environment.  The need for flexibility due to the shift to remote and hybrid work Using one powerful platform for on-prem, cloud-hosted, or SaaS with a single, consistent interface Addressing change and associated risks -- modernizing your environment and personnel skills  View on-demand HERE. 

Now on-demand! Join us for one of two conversations featuring Dr. Sally Eaves, award-winning international speaker, author, and member of the Forbes Technology Council, and Commvault customer execs from L.L. Bean (Americas) and Diagnostyka (EMEA).During the sessions, our expert panelists discuss real-world risk mitigation and how a Zero Loss Strategy helps organizations be ransomware-ready and recover quickly in the event of a cyberattack.Watch here.And as always feel free to post any questions before or after the sessions here in the community.   

Imagine if you could modernize your VM protection to require less effort, while gaining security, flexibility, and controlling costs. With Metallic Data Management as a Service, you can do exactly that. Join Michael Przybos, Sales Engineer at Metallic, for a deep dive into how you can leverage Metallic’s VM & Kubernetes Backup offerings to optimize your VM protection policy and operations while facilitating your cloud transformation. Michael provides a demo and answers any questions you may have about how to best protect your virtual data throughout your hybrid cloud journey.  Watch the recording by clicking HERE.  

Commvault is introducing our Zero Loss Strategy, a new business-critical approach to fighting ransomware, which will help you better plan, protect, manage, and recover your data. To maintain healthy business operations and manage risk, you need an approach that integrates your data management and security teams and other stakeholders.Join us on May 25th as we bring together industry experts and Commvault customers to explore real-world risk mitigation and how Commvault’s Zero Loss Strategy helps organizations be ransomware-ready and recover quickly in the event of a cyberattack. Learn more and register HERE.