Platform Updates

Join @Jeff Crum, Commvault’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, for a video tour of the key updates bundled into Commvault Platform Release 2022E – our annual Long-Term Support (LTS) release. This video provides a high-level overview of the features in this release and the value they bring to Commvault environments.  You can also read about the new features in the related blog post:Keep an eye on this space for future updates!

Non-stop innovation is the basis for our Intelligent Data Services, helping our customers solve their toughest data protection challenges with the broadest range of workload protection across data center, cloud, and edge environments, all managed with a single unified platform.With Commvault Platform Release 2022E – our annual Long-Term Support (LTS) release – we raise the bar again. In this release we offer new ways to detect and recover from ransomware to help keep your data safe, because if you can’t protect your data, nothing else we do to manage your data matters. In addition, as enterprise IT continues to modernize and transform, we look to make that job easier. With this release we also bring the most complete enterprise-grade protection for containers and Kubernetes than ever before, along with new ways to protect and increase performance in your Azure Cloud ecosystem. All, again, integrated into a single unified platform so that no matter how you expand or transform your envir

More organizations are employing real-time analytics and insights to support the success of their digital transformation. For many, SAP HANA is their database of choice. SAP HANA is a large-scale, in-memory database used for real-time data processing and next-gen analytics and can be deployed both on-premises and in cloud infrastructure.With business growth, there comes an increase in data management operations including data backup. SAP HANA provides various data protection capabilities.To help ensure data persistence and protection from memory failure, HANA periodically writes the changed data (data volume) to disk with logs containing data changes (log volume). To further protect from system failures, the data and log volumes must be backed up to other storage media. SAP HANA provides configurable backup settings in ini and APIs to be integrated with third-party vendors to fetch consistent data for backup. The data volumes are protected in complete (Full) and delta (Incremental) Wit

At Metallic, we understand the value of a robust, yet simple cloud-delivered solution to manage database backups, along with your full data estate. That’s why we’re excited to introduce coverage for critical Azure databases, making Metallic® the DMaaS solution that supports the broadest selection of Azure databases:  Azure SQL Server  Azure SQL Managed Instance  Azure Cosmos DB  Azure Database for MariaDB  Azure Database for MySQL  Azure Database for PostgreSQL This latest addition to your data protection arsenal is an extension of our close partnership and commitment to supporting Microsoft customers and environments with robust, SaaS delivered data protection and management, built with the power of Microsoft Azure. to add support for Azure databases as we continue to protect cloud native data no matter where it resides.For more information, check out the full blog post. 

The Commvault Platform Release 2022E Key Feature Review videos are now available on-demand.Learn more about the latest features and enhancements with a technical focus on what is new with Commvault software on Platform Release 2022E.  Click here to view the video library, and reply here with any questions for our Enablement team. 

By now you have heard about the name change (and if you haven't, click here to get the details from the one and only @Dave Orban ) and know that 11.28 is available in tech preview, but what's really in the release.  As many of you know, my responsibility in PM ranges from Command Center, to the core platform, to all the virtualization technologies, and UX, so ill do my best not to provide a completely self-promoting list of details related to this release.CommServe on Linux will be GA on August 15th.   After several years in the making, I am happy to announce that I have removed early adopter status for this capability and can be installed today leveraging the latest bootstrap for CPR2022E/11.28, without any fancy keys or procedures.   Just a couple things to keep in mind: I want to first thank everyone on the community who reached out to me directly and participated in some capacity, to  not only test the install, but the speed and resiliency of CS on Linux.  The feedback driven by th

As ransomware and cybercrime rapidly increase, data security remains top of mind for all of us. To safeguard data, we understand organizations need an effective, well-rounded, and multi-layered approach to implement preventive measures to stay secure.Today, we are excited to introduce our new Metallic Security IQ Dashboard. Included in every Metallic subscription, Security IQ surfaces quick and meaningful insights into your organization’s data backup security posture and threat levels. With Security IQ, you have access to advanced tools and insights to bolster data backup security across your entire Metallic environment. Easily identify risks and vulnerabilities in real-time, limit exposure to cyber threats at scale, and continuously improve your security posture to successfully exceed data recovery objectives. Read the announcement and check out our Metallic Security IQ Dashboard overview for more details. Or, login to the Metallic Hub to experience for yourself.  

As Commvault celebrates 25 years of data management innovation and success in helping businesses of all sizes protect and manage their data, the new Feature Release demonstrates that we’re continuing to do what we’ve always done: Constant innovation is the basis for our suite of Intelligent Data Services that help our customers solve business-critical data challenges.11.24 is a Long-Term Support Release (LTS), delivering a core set of new functionalities plus numerous customer experience enhancements across product areas. In this preview, I will highlight the following capabilities:Manage new workloads Simplification HyperScale X11.24 includes dozens of improved software defaults, self-help, and resiliency improvements (readiness check, better error messages upon failures, etc.) for VSA and Database agents. These enhancements help you to identify the root cause of problems and avoid issues from arising.  Manage new workloadsAzure DevOps has robust integrations with Azure and a comprehe

Commvault Feature Release 11.23 is now Generally AvailableOne of the many things that helps differentiate Commvault from others in this space is our ability to protect all kinds of data and to do so without limitations of size, or location. So whether you’re talking about databases, applications, virtual machines, containers, and even as-a-service data, we’ve got you covered. And regardless of whether they reside on-prem, in the cloud, across multiple clouds, in hybrid environments, or endpoints scattered around the globe, you’re protected… by a single, unified solution that’s agile, flexible, responsive, scalable, and extensible. And we’re continually working to make it even better… to make sure that our customers are always recovery ready!Let’s take a look at some of the new features and functionality that are part of Feature Release 11.23, specifically those bundled with our Data Management and Protection product suite: Commvault Complete™ Data Protection, Commvault® Backup & Re