Commvault Release Notes

Docker Change

On Dec 15th 2020, Commvault released Feature Release 11.22 which represents the third software release to support protection of Docker containers that are managed by Kubernetes. Commvault also announced deprecation of the Docker Virtual Server Agent (VSA)

What changed?

Commvault has observed a significant shift from our customers and the containerization market in general towards orchestrated container platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) and Kubernetes. As popularity for RHOCP and other Kubernetes distributions has grown, we have observed a reduction in demand for native Docker protection. In line with market trends, Commvault announced Deprecation and End-of-life fo

NEWS

In today's dynamic enterprise landscape, protecting sensitive data across distributed applications is paramount. YugabyteDB, a leading distributed SQL database known for its horizontal scalability and built-in resilience, empowers organizations to build globally consistent applications. While YugabyteDB is built to seamlessly handle a number of failures, complete protection against extreme failures and evolving threats, and compliance and regulatory requirements, necessitates a dedicated data security and recovery solution. That's where Commvault Cloud comes in, providing unparalleled cyber resiliency to safeguard your critical data. With our latest innovations, we’re excited to add support for YugabyteDB. With this integration, customers have complete protection of YugabyteDB enviro

FAQ

What’s happening with Metallic?
On November 8th, Metallic, Commvault’s game-changing SaaS-delivered data protection portfolio, is becoming part of the Commvault Cloud. By merging Metallic and Commvault technologies into one platform, we can deliver a modern experience that advances how our customers protect their data – with even more flexibility of choice.

What is Commvault Cloud?
Commvault Cloud is Commvault’s unified cyber resilience platform. Leveraging a common foundation and framework, the Commvault Cloud offers the flexibility to consume Commvault services in the cloud, as software on-prem, or as an integrated appliance through a single platform.

Why now?
As cyberattacks and data risks mount, unifying Commvault and Metallic technologies in a single platform unlocks new synergies and advancements that benefit how our customer base secures and recovers hybrid cloud data against

FAQ: Metallic® ThreatWise™ SaaS Migration

What's new? On November 8th, Metallic, Commvault’s game-changing SaaS-delivered data protection portfolio, is becoming part of the Commvault Cloud. To learn more about the move visit the full Metallic - Commvault Cloud FAQ .

How does this impact Metallic ThreatWise? One year ago, Commvault purchased the ThreatWise technology (formerly DeceptionGrid) and launched it under our Metallic data protection portfolio. Now, ThreatWise will join the rest of the Metallic service catalog as it becomes part of our new Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform.

Will I need to migrate my existing ThreatWise environment? No. While ThreatWise (and Metallic, at large) is now part of the Com

PRODUCT UPDATE

We are excited to announce that Commvault Platform Release 2023E is GA. PR2023E offers a modern data protection platform, available today, with advanced analytics-driven insights, multi-cloud capabilities, and improved scalability - all backed by powerful automation and ubiquitous recovery to proactively protect your data across all workloads and environments. We’ve added all new capabilities and continued improvements on existing capabilities to help you secure, defend, and recover your environment in new and more efficient ways, all while saving money. To make things even better, the platform is designed with a clean and intuitive user interface, so you can easily navigate without any hassle. Join our upcoming webinar for a tour of Commvault

PRODUCT UPDATE

This is the second installment in a series of articles on the new Auto Recovery capabilities that are part of Commvault Platform Release 2023E. Read more in the intro post here. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Commvault Auto Recovery provides replication options at multiple levels, ranging from storage to applications running on physical or virtual machines. The two main types of replications are periodic and continuous, with periodic replication offering a moderate recovery point objective (RPO) and continuous replication offering a low or near-zero RPO. Regardless of the replication type or workload, Commvault Auto Recovery offers consistent configuration, recovery orchestration, and automation. The platform simplifies the replication process by abstracting complexities and offering a user

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We are excited to announce that Commvault Platform Release 2023 is GA. The major themes for this release are Hybrid & Multi-cloud management, Enhanced Security, and Increased Cost Savings. With the world evolving rapidly and the threat or onset of a global recession looming, these three areas are top of mind and Platform Release 2023 encompasses each of them. View our CPR 2023 Release webinar on-demand. @Sudha Iyer, Principal Product Manager, @Brian Bruno, Customer Support Engineer, and I share highlights and answer questions about the 2023 release. To strengthen your security posture and lessen the impact of ransomware assaults, we're introducing stronger data security and protection in the semi-annual Platform

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As the adage goes, every company is now a cloud company. Those of us with on-premises datacenters run what you can consider a private cloud, where you provide infrastructure, applications, and other services to your lines of business. In addition, to on-premises cloud, you may have workloads and/or data stored in the public cloud, often is several different clouds, creating hybrid or multi-cloud environments. Organizations face a balancing act of trying to achieve greater agility for their business, continuing to innovate, and remaining efficient in this hybrid & multi-cloud world we now live in. Ever growing data sets and increased constraints on IT resources are driving the need for more cost optimization. Coupled with the need for even greater security, many organizations are tirelessly working to address the growing threat of ransomware. Protecting all their resources across their cloud environments is paramount. We are announcing our Tech Preview for Commvault P

PRODUCT UPDATE

This is the fourth and final installment in our series of articles on the latest capabilities of HyperScale X. Catch up on the first three: what’s new in HyperScale X in 2022E, redesign and innovation of the HSX installer, and enterprise-grade security capabilities . The latest release of Commvault HyperScale X 2022E brings continued focus and improvement on the day-to-day operational aspects of the product. Arguably, customers spend a majority of their time simply operating, upgrading, and ensuring the

PRODUCT UPDATE

Commvault feature releases never fall short of delivering fun at the cutting edge – if loads of innovation is your definition of fun! Release 2022E is no exception - if you haven't already caught up with the “what’s new” announcement blog, please check that out here. The focus of this article is on HyperScale X – a secure, scale out storage platform for modern data protection needs – and key innovation that Release 2022E unleashed. This is the first in a series of four articles through which we will unpack the latest capabilities, share how they can augment your data protection experience, and how you can leverage the features along with additional pointers for further reading. Let us begin the ride.

Simple, Scalable, and Reliable Deployments

PRODUCT UPDATE

This is the second in our series of articles on the latest capabilities of HyperScale X. If you missed the first covering what’s new in HyperScale X in 2022E, catch up on that here. Click on the images (figures) throughout to enlarge them. We've come a long way since someone typed "./setupsds" for the first time to launch the text based installer to configure Hyperscale, with a few twists and turns along the way. From the first manual drive selection and network configuration, Hyperscale setup and configuration was primarily CLI driven, requiring higher levels of Linux expertise than we wanted our customers, PS, and the field to worry about. As part of our effort to automate bring more simplicity, we are incredibly happy to bring to the product a completely re-designed HSX installer. Driv

PRODUCT UPDATE

Non-stop innovation is the basis for our Intelligent Data Services, helping our customers solve their toughest data protection challenges with the broadest range of workload protection across data center, cloud, and edge environments, all managed with a single unified platform. With Commvault Platform Release 2022E – our annual Long-Term Support (LTS) release – we raise the bar again. In this release we offer new ways to detect and recover from ransomware to help keep your data safe, because if you can’t protect your data, nothing else we do to manage your data matters. In addition, as enterprise IT continues to modernize and transform, we look to make that job easier. With this release we also bring the most complete ente