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Commvault

  • Commvault’s latest Azure announcement

    Commvault’s latest Azure announcement

    Commvault just became the first cyber resilience vendor embedded natively in the Microsoft Azure fabric. If that doesn’t sound like a big deal, give me two minutes — because twenty years ago, something very similar changed the entire data protection industry.

  • Gartner’s 2026 MQ for Data Protection

    Gartner’s 2026 MQ for Data Protection

    Gartner’s latest MQ for Data Protection just dropped; go pull up the chart. The trio now appears as a quartet, but that isn’t the most interesting or actionable part of the story. Let’s talk about it.

  • Cybersecurity Summit 2026

    Cybersecurity Summit 2026

    The Official Cybersecurity Summit is one of my favorite single-stage conference series, especially this year with four Data Protection vendors showing on the expo floor – with special kudos to Rubrik and Commvault for some really interesting discussions on Cyber Resilience and more.

  • IDC MarketScape for SaaS Protection

    IDC MarketScape for SaaS Protection

    IDC recently published its MarketScape on SaaS data protection for 2026. If you’re an IDC client, you’ll want to read the entire report. Else, there’s a lot that you can glean from their chart that ought to raise some hard questions and fresh ideas for your overall Data Protection strategy.

  • VMworld 2015 Had Some Great Marketing

    VMworld 2015 Had Some Great Marketing

    There was some great marketing execution at VMworld 2015. As a sequel to my blog last year that “Event Marketing Doesn’t Get Enough Credit,” here is my tip of the hat to some of the unsung heroes of tradeshows: the events planners and marketing leaders that ensure that the technology experts and sales folks have…

  • CommVault’s Future Just Became ‘Cloudy’ – In a Good Way

    CommVault’s Future Just Became ‘Cloudy’ – In a Good Way

    Today, CommVault announced four new offerings to take its Simpana platform to the clouds in two directions: Backup to the Cloud – enhancing how the CommVault data protection platform can store data within public cloud storage from its Simpana software (via the new Cloud Replication option) or from a CommVault appliance (via the new Cloud…

  • CommVault announces “You Can Have It Your Way”

    CommVault announces “You Can Have It Your Way”

    There is a famous hamburger chain that used to tout, “You can have it your way,” whereby instead of getting your burger fully-loaded (with all the fixin’s), you can choose whether you wanted pickles, tomatoes, or anything else. For the last two decades, CommVault has been offering a fully-loaded data protection solution that encompassed backup,…

  • CommVault Simpana now offering “One Pass”

    CommVault Simpana now offering “One Pass”

    Today, CommVault is holding a virtual event to announce some of its latest innovations for the Simpana 9.0 product. I had the opportunity to do some early hands-on testing of a few of the new capabilities during an ESG Lab Review — including its new “OnePass” technology and its ability to integrate with Scale-out NAS.…