Dell and CommVault have taken the wraps off a new PowerVault DL appliance that is squarely aimed at businesses looking to use private or public cloud environments to manage and protect their data. Featuring CommVault’s Simpana 8 software and a wizard-driven setup and management utility, the new Dell appliance also can be paired across geographically distributed sites to protect remote or branch-office data and applications.
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Almost everyone these days is shifting to virtualized infrastructures, but the huge shift from physical to virtual is creating a big strain on the management side, noted Jeff Echols, CommVault’s senior director of cloud strategy and alliances. Having to protect and access everything in a virtual environment is very challenging, he said.
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Echols observed that the Simpana 8 software that ships on the PowerVault DL is designed to address these concerns. CommVault is way ahead of our competition about how to protect data in a virtualized environment, Echols said. The Dell DL is a great package that can be dropped into a customer’s environment to protect and manage the data that resides in a virtual infrastructure.
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Managing Virtualized Servers
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Offering up to 24 terabytes of internal storage capacity as well as scalability to more than 300TB, Dell’s backup-to-disk platform offers fast throughput and optimized deduplication in a smaller 2U form factor. To streamline disk-to-tape data protection while increasing disaster recovery capabilities, Dell’s PowerVault TL2000, TL4000 or ML6000 tape library can be integrated into the platform.
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One of the top challenges that enterprises face in managing virtualized server environments is the inability to back up all virtual machines reliably and in a timely manner. CommVault’s technology enables the PowerVault DL to restore physical as well as virtual environments — with both VMware and Hyper-V protection options on tap.
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Unlike other data-storage vendors that have grown their product lines…