CommVault News & Media

If you didn't make it to CommVault's recent Hockey Helping Kids (HHK) event at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly, you missed a fantastic opportunity to meet and mingle with some terrific CommVault employees, customers and partners. I was there and I can tell you it was the very best combination of networking, fun and philanthropy.

CommVault honored its global partners at its second annual worldwide Partner of the Year Awards program held last Thursday evening at the company's worldwide sales kickoff event in Miami. These awards recognize partners for outstanding success in modernizing data and information management for customers, exceeding business goals and providing superior sales, services and support of CommVault^® Simpana^® software.

CommVault announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.

N. Robert Hammer, CommVault's chairman, president and CEO stated, "Our excellent results in the fourth quarter were highlighted by record revenues, non-GAAP EBIT and operating cash flows. Our 23% growth in software revenues in the fourth quarter compared to the prior year was driven by another quarter of record enterprise software deals (transactions greater than $100,000) and strong demand both domestically and internationally. Our fourth quarter results concluded a strong fiscal 2013 where we achieved substantial improvements in all aspect of our business by delivering 25% software revenue growth and a 53% improvement in non-GAAP EBIT for the full fiscal year."

It's time to rethink your data deduplication strategy. Most environments using dedupe today either suffer from resource bottlenecks, scale limitations, or a combination of both. This seems to be particularly true with the rapid spread of dedupe appliances. Don't get me wrong — a dedupe appliance is a useful tool that solves some important challenges customers may face when rapidly rolling out the technology to see a quick benefit. But this strategy retains the fundamental reliance on hardware that can create other problems. In particular, as datasets continue to accelerate in growth, these approaches fundamentally ask you to throw more and more hardware at the problem. As a result, if you're deduping this way today, you may be overpaying and/or underperforming. Read on to determine how to remedy these problems.

The landscape around how Education Services and products are accessed and used is under a radical evolution. Functional expertise is now as much a by-product of "Googling" as it is professional experience and knowledge. A 20-year study, conducted from 1986 to 2006, assessed the percentage of knowledge required by workers to complete their work; researchers determined that there was a 7x DECREASE in the value of retained knowledge for employees over that time period. The change engine in this dynamic – the Internet. Fast forward seven years into the era of BYOD and it's clear that creating highly accessible "byte-sized" access to information assets is critical for employee success.

CommVault today announced a new Customer Education Services program that provides an intuitive learning management system, with customized user training and access to new online training courses, which are designed to accelerate customer productivity and deliver the greatest value from Simpana^® software investments.

If you have any doubts that protecting data at the edge and providing employees with self-service access to their information, on any device, makes them more productive, then this true story is for you. I know it's true because I was there. Thankfully, CommVault has fully embraced the growing trend of empowering the mobile workforce and, as the industry slogan says, we "eat our own dog food" by deploying CommVault Edge^™ to protect the data on our employees' laptops and desktops.

Big Data is a regular term used by IT vendors and end-user organizations however, to uncover the true value hidden in the mass of data under the control of an organization requires a cohesive and coherent approach to information management. In this paper, Quocirca discusses the need for a fully integrated system for an organization’s data and information management needs to ensure that the intellectual property assets can be optimally discovered and managed.

As one of the newest members of the CommVault family, I was privileged to attend my first CommVault Hockey Helping Kids (HHK) event recently at the Boston Garden. Unlike our usual events, this one took place over a two-day period, in the Boston Bruins NHL venue, but instead of a Bruins game, attendees were treated to dinner and the NCAA Division I Hockey Semi-Finals on Friday evening, March 22^nd. This was not a typical one-day HHK event that takes place on NHL ice in conjunction with a game, usually between rival teams. No, this was a different kind of night, but a special one for me.

CommVault will release the Company's financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and year ended March 31, 2013, on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, followed by a webcast and conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (5:30 a.m. Pacific Time).