Commvault News

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 r

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

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 redi

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 

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

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.

Join Commvault technical experts for the continuation of our Demo series. Our experts will showcase best practices for optimizing your environment and how Commvault stacks up against the competition. Our featured topics include: [On-Demand] What’s New with Commvault: Includes new features and interfaces of Commvault Backup and Recovery, including HTML Command Center, automated compliance reporting, and protect new workloads like Kubernetes  [On-Demand] Multi-Cloud Workloads: Optimize your cloud-first and hybrid/multi-cloud environments on AWS, Azure, Google, and other clouds [On-Demand] Data Cybersecurity: Secure your data from cyber threats, including ransomware and air-gapping  [On-Demand] SaaS Capabilities: Leverage Metallic, Commvault’s SaaS offering, to provide a simple SaaS platform for your data management needs, including MCSS Check

We're embracing the cloud and driving business forward. Don't get left behind!Digital transformation changes everything when it comes to data. That’s why you should join Commvault and learn why we're essential to your digital transformation journey. Read how here.   

With Commvault, organizations have been able to not only survive a ransomware attack but go on to thrive! Some reasons why include: ✔️Most complete protection & broadest coverage✔️Consistent, repeatable processes and the most recovery options✔️Best visibility across your data to manage and identify risk Check out our case studies and get the new e-book here. 

At Commvault, we are constantly looking for ways to solve hard data management challenges in the most elegant way. In reviewing our current quarterly feature release cadence and observing customer upgrade patterns, we have found an excellent opportunity to improve on the customer experience while continuing to innovate and extend our leadership position in the industry.As some of you might recall, about three years ago we introduced “Long-Term Support” (LTS) releases for our customers who wanted to remain on a supported release for a longer period of time. This option has proven to be very popular – in fact, most of our customers are currently using LTS releases today.Therefore, beginning this year, Commvault is moving from a 3-month to a 6-month release cadence, where new software releases will become available every six months instead of every quarter. Please note the following with respect to this change:Simpler customer upgrade experience

Join us for a deep-dive into Metallic DMaaS, proven SaaS data management from Commvault. We’ll roll up our sleeves with a hands-on demo, showing you how to safeguard your entire data estate with ease - all from a single solution. Learn more by clicking here. 

Hi folks,At Commvault we’re all thrilled to see the increased growth and engagement of the Commvault community which launched just over a year ago. We’re at over 7000 customer and partner registrations, and it’s been amazing to watch a revitalized community come together in a relative short span of time. The community is one of several initiatives to improve our overall customer experience, and today we’re announcing the next milestone in that journey.We’re upgrading the search experience on our self-help sites to help you get faster answers to your questions and solutions to your challenges. The new search experience uses advanced machine learning to provide relevant results from a range of sources. Over the coming months, the accuracy will continue to improve as the system begins to learn the terminology of our product and search patterns of our customers.The new search experience will fed

The need for data protection is at its highest as data is more vulnerable than it has even been. Every business has different amounts of data that are used for different reasons. Anything can happen to valuable data through ransomware and cyber attack. To prepare, Commvault has compiled an assortment of resources and articles around data protection best practices. Check out the resources below, and if you have questions for our solutions experts or suggestions for related topics you’d like to see more of in the future, leave a note here.Keeping Your Business Safe From Ransomware  5 Lessons Learned from Ransomware Attacks The Multi-Layered Approach to Ransomware Protection and Recovery 

The quarterly Key Feature Review for Feature Release 11.26 is now on-demand! There are three different sessions, which can be enjoyed at your leisure. See the recordings here. Use this opportunity to learn about the general Commvault changes along with updates and new features on Data Protection, Security, Storage, Data Intelligence, Disaster Recovery, and even Metallic! 

Join Commvault technical experts for the continuation of our demo series. Our experts will showcase best practices for optimizing your environment and how Commvault stacks up against the competition. The featured topics include: Cloud Workloads: Optimize your cloud-first and hybrid cloud environments on AWS, Azure, Google, and/or Oracle Data Protection: Secure your data from cyberthreats  SaaS Capabilities: Leverage Metallic, Commvault’s SaaS offering, to provide a simple SaaS platform for your data management needsEach demo is on-demand and can be enjoyed at your leisure. Watch all of the demo sessions here.