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Solving One of the CIO's Most Pressing Problems: Knowing What Data They Have Across the Enterprise with Commvault ActivateTINTON FALLS, N.J. and NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a recognized global leader in backup, recovery, the cloud and data management across any hybrid environment, today announced powerful innovation in the quest to improve business outcomes with data-driven insights and actions. With Commvault Activate and its portfolio of applications, customers will be able to merge the knowledge and analysis of their data with actionable use-cases. With this ability to know their data, customers will increase their potential to "activate" their data for significant returns across areas like improved business decision making, lowered data storage costs, compliance readiness, risk, and other customer critical use cases. The innovation in Commvault Activate solves one of the most vexing challenges facing CIOs today: gaining a complete picture of their data environments. The announcement was made at Commvault GO 2018, the company's annual customer conference being held in Nashville, Tennessee. Commvault Activate unleashes a powerful open, dynamic index (the Commvault 4D Index) and embraces artificial intelligence (AI) learning methods that enrich the data context, meaning and understanding across data sources regardless of location or data type. Enterprises can utilize Commvault Activate to discover and gain knowledge about their data across all environments, whether managed by third-party tools, managed with Commvault tools, or not under management at all. This knowledge can then be used for dashboards and automated policies powered by content-aware actions to expand new use-cases and enable improved decision making and valuable business insight. And, when used with Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery, the enterprise can now blend this data knowledge into the indexed collection of backup and archive data instances providing a fully virtualized data landscape perspective. Enterprises Cannot Manage What They Don't Know They Have The realization of this business value is too often prevented by insufficient knowledge of exactly what data customers have, where it resides and who can access it. Commvault commissioned research "Measuring IT's Readiness for Digital Business," – a survey of 1,200 IT executives and IT personnel in six global business markets – highlighted this very issue, indicated that more than 60 percent of IT executives and IT personnel think they have access to less than half of their organizations' data. This data management and access gap further complicates future success of business, with more than 50 percent of respondents saying that "better data collection and management" and "new tools to analyze increasingly sophisticated data" as essential. The volumes of data being produced by enterprises continues to increase exponentially as are the number of locations where data is being stored and used. To fully implement data optimization strategies and make better data management decisions, companies must have:
"Customers cannot manage what they don't know they have – this is a growing and vexing challenge for all CIO's, a challenge that is holding back business innovation, compliance and operations," said N. Robert Hammer, Commvault's Chairman, President and CEO. "With data in the cloud, on premises, stored virtually, on mobile devices and everywhere in between – and with data sitting out in business units and not under central management – public and private organizations are missing opportunities to add value, reduce cost, manage risk and simply run better. Now, for the first time, we are enabling organizations to look across their data sources, generate and centralize knowledge about their data, and be able to drive further analysis to assess and understand the value of the data in conjunction with the company's business requirements. That gives customers the power to make the right decisions and drive action to better manage, use and get value from their data – this is truly data management done differently." Commvault Activate™ Helps Customers Know Their Data Commvault ctivate maps and profiles data sources to enable enterprises to perform the following analysis centrally:
"Being able to secure a comprehensive understanding of the data environment is a prerequisite for enterprises seeking to reduce complexity and optimize their data storage," said George Crump, Founder and Lead Analyst, Storage Switzerland. "Commvault Activate is designed to deliver enterprises this understanding, enabling them to not just lower data management risks and costs, but also make data work for them to improve business outcomes." Actionable Insight Possible with Knowledge One such application in the portfolio is focused on helping to automate compliance processes. The Sensitive Data Governance (SDG) application of the Commvault Activate portfolio simplifies the best practices of assessing and addressing the risks of managing sensitive data based on content at scale, starting with file servers and endpoints. This application enables several critical functions including:
A Commitment to Making Data Work for Customers Commvault Activate and the original SDG application are delivered in an environment which offers developers an extensive collection of data management, visualization, reporting, and business workflow capabilities to customize templates and/or to rapidly develop and publish their own content-oriented applications for use in the Commvault Activate portfolio. The framework is designed with an open context to make it easy to interoperate with 3rd party content-analytics products or couple into many of the rapidly evolving cognitive cloud AI services, and/or to provide customers the ability to self-develop similar know and active applications of their own. "The proliferation of electronically-stored information creates difficulties for organizations' ability to quickly find what matters, a problem addressed by Commvault Activate," said Vincent Chang, President, Arrosoft Solutions. "The ability to access the insights presented by Commvault Activate and the ability to enrich those insights, presents significant opportunities for customers and partners to drive innovation towards unique outcomes. This is also something that we'd expect to drive growth in Commvault's ecosystem of partners and solutions." Commvault Activate is targeted primarily as a user-oriented portfolio aligned with value-based licensing tied to the user roles who increasingly "activate" and gain the benefits of using automated processes in a well-run governance environment. Commvault Activate and the Sensitive Data Governance application will be generally available in December 2018. Commvault said it planned to roll out additional applications associated with Commvault Activate in the coming quarters, with a coming focus on data storage optimization and eDiscovery. Building on Commvault's Recently Announced Portfolio The new simple product portfolio upends the "status quo" of the backup and recovery market, which in the past has required customers to acquire many point solutions, inclusive of new emerging backup vendors. In addition, it addresses one of the key hybrid IT challenges faced by todays' global digital enterprises – how to protect and manage data in ways that meet the needs of the business across locations, infrastructures, data types, and at scale. Many point products are tied to legacy infrastructure, creating silos of data that limit enterprises' agility, lower productivity, and increase risk. Commvault GO 2018 Take part in and engage with the online conversation across social media by using #CommvaultGO and follow Commvault on: Twitter: @Twitter About Commvault Safe Harbor Statement ©1999-2018 Commvault Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Commvault, Commvault and logo, the "C hexagon" logo, Commvault Systems, Solving Forward, SIM, Singular Information Management, Commvault HyperScale, ScaleProtect, Commvault OnePass, Commvault Galaxy, Unified Data Management, QiNetix, Quick Recovery, QR, CommNet, GridStor, Vault Tracker, InnerVault, Quick Snap, QSnap, IntelliSnap, Recovery Director, CommServe, CommCell, ROMS, APSS, Commvault Edge, Commvault GO, Commvault Advantage, Commvault Complete, Commvault Activate, Commvault Orchestrate, and CommValue are trademarks or registered trademarks of Commvault Systems, Inc. All other third party brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of and used to identify the products or services of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice.
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