CommVault announced today that Forrester Research, Inc. named CommVault a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Backup Software, Q2 2013.
The Forrester Wave is an objective methodology that evaluates vendors
on current offering, strategy and market presence, against pre-defined
evaluation criteria. CommVault is top ranked in the current offering
category for Simpana 10 software, scoring 4.45 points out of a possible
five. According to Forrester, "CommVault excels with an integrated
platform. CommVault's primary strategy centers on providing a single
platform for backup, recovery, continuity, archive and other data
management and protection strategies. The 17-year old company uses its
relative youth to its advantage, touting a modern approach to data
protection."
Additional highlights from the Forrester report include:
- CommVault received among the highest scores for its corporate and product strategy, earning 4.5 out of five points.
- The Forrester Wave report also stated, "CommVault touts its
simplicity and unified platform...Areas of strength for CommVault
include its deduplication capabilities and cloud-target integrations, as
well as hypervisor and application capabilities. The company also
received high marks in the professional services and consulting area,
which is a newly expanded offering for CommVault."
Based on its Solving Forward philosophy, CommVault's
innovative data and information management solutions go beyond
IT-centric functions of backup, archive, replication and snapshot
management to address broad business needs. From a single platform, Simpana 10
provides secure, self-service access from mobile devices to all current
and historical data created by an organization - from servers to
laptops, in the data center and the cloud - and empowers workers with
compliance search, data mining and reporting. More than 300 software
features combine to reduce risk, slash storage-related costs by up to 50
percent, and reduce administrative overhead by up to 80 percent,
enabling customers to get ahead of mobility, cloud and big data
initiatives while staying within budgets.
Customers and industry experts recognize the value of this singular
software approach as CommVault continues to receive top industry honors
and gain market share. According to Forrester, "CommVault continues to
see rapid growth, nearly doubling its customer base during the past four
years."
"CommVault's singular platform enables our customers to do more with
less, by automating operations, reducing hardware costs and managing
large data center and cloud environments," said N. Robert Hammer,
Chairman, President and CEO, CommVault. "We believe that Forrester's
recognition of CommVault as a leader in enterprise backup and recovery
software underscores our commitment to deliver data and information
management innovations that improve efficiency and provide access and
insight to data."