Recently I joined Commvault to discuss the challenges with data protection as organisations embrace the cloud.
You are able to watch the recent webinar where I spoke on this subject alongside Commvault’s Marc Lucas and Ronnie Kaftal here >> Commvault-Spotlight on Digital Transformation.
The doodle below summarises the areas for discussion in the webinar.
Most of us at the moment are seeing fast adoption of cloud based services such as SaaS like Microsoft 365 or IaaS with platforms like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and more. Whilst these services help organisations accelerate innovation and remove the burden of many administrative functions, there is still the need to manage and protect the data.
In this situation it isn’t uncommon for many point fix solutions to be implemented. This fixes the problem in a specific area but equally leads to a fragmentation of points of management, policy and monitoring.
This is where Commvault comes in unifying data management and protection across on-premises and the cloud, across tradition applications and modern applications.
Metallic is Commvault’s data management as a service platform, it uses the same code base as the on-premises version but delivered a full cloud service and importantly you have a single point of management on-premises and in the cloud with their Control Center management plane.
Operators further get to choose where the data they wish to protect is stored with three different storage plane options.
Full SaaS storage plane delivered as part of the service in a local Azure Region or with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Bring your own storage from private cloud, public cloud or on-premises options.
Commvault’s HSX appliances .
During the webinar we saw how the Metallic platform allowed data to be managed across all infrastructure and application areas.
Demo One - Backup of a VM rom Nutanix being recovered to Azure
Demo Two - An Azure VM being backed-up to Metallic Cloud Storage and recovered to AWS
Demo Three - A SQL server database on-premises being recovered to a cloud based PaaS solution
Demo Four - Kubernetes and Database backup via Metallic.
Conclusion
It has been really good to work with Commvault to understand their offerings for hybrid-cloud management. Commvault aren’t a company that has gone and acquired companies to fix gaps in their portfolio, they have built the integrations from scratch and importantly unlike some others this results in a single management plane.
If you would like to learn more about Metallic you can check out the website below
SaaS Backup & Recovery Solutions for Data Protection & Compliance (metallic.io)
Disclaimer: Tech Doodles through Tech Crossing Limited has been paid by Commvault to create content covering the Metallic product set. Whilst Tech Crossing Limited and the authors of this blog post have been paid to create the content, there has been no influence or editorial control by Commvault.