CommVault(R) Customer Wins ‘Best Practices in Storage’ Award

OCEANPORT, N.J., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Computerworld, the “Voice of IT Management,” announced last week the recipients of its “Best Practices in Storage” awards, which include CommVault’s (Nasdaq: CVLT - News) customer, the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) of Virginia. The award for “Best Practices in Storage,” category “Designing and Building a Strategic Storage Infrastructure,” was presented during a ceremony at the Storage Networking World Conference (SNW) in Orlando, Florida. SNW is the world’s largest storage networking event.

 

“We are honored to receive this award for the successful implementation of our strategy to eliminate tape from our worldwide backup infrastructure. We sought a vendor that could support our vision and selected CommVault Galaxy Backup & Recovery and QNet software to help us meet our goals,” said Peter Amstutz, Chief of Network Design for DCMA. “Our intent was to treat backup as an enterprise-class competency. We perform weekly backups of more than 11 TB of data and rely on CommVault products to protect and manage 22 data centers worldwide. We are confident that backed-up data can be restored quickly and easily, freeing our administrators to focus on more critical tasks.”Honorees of Computerworld’s “2006 Best Practices in Storage” awards were selected from more than 120 qualified entries across five categories. They were judged by representatives from a variety of organizations including Computerworld and IDC.

“This year’s honorees represent a variety of organizations, all of which have unlocked the true value of networked storage and its strategic importance to their businesses,” said Ron Milton, executive vice president, Computerworld. “The honorees have demonstrated continued excellence in the use of storage technology and have extraordinary business challenges.”

For more information about the award, the honorees, and the conference, please visit: http://www.snwusa.com/awards.html#results .

About CommVault

CommVault® provides Unified Data Management(TM) solutions for high- performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. The CommVault® QiNetix(TM) platform, based on CommVault’s Common Technology Engine, integrates Galaxy backup and recovery, snapshot management and recovery, remote replication, active data migration and archiving, e-mail compliance, enterprise service level management and reporting and storage resource management software solutions. The QiNetix unified approach is designed to allow customers to add/integrate QiNetix components, at a fraction of the time, effort and money required by separate point products.

Information about CommVault is available at http://www.commvault.com or by calling (732) 870-4000. CommVault’s corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States. (cvlt-pd)

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About Computerworld

Computerworld is recognized worldwide as the premier source for news, information and opinion on the critical technology and management issues affecting senior technology professionals. Computerworld’s award-winning weekly publication, Computerworld.com Web site, focused conference series, and custom research, form the hub of the world’s largest (58-edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Computerworld has an online audience of over 1.1 million unique monthly visitors (Omniture) and a total print audience of 1,337,000 (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2006). Computerworld is on the Web at http://www.computerworld.com .

Computerworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading technology media, research and events company. A privately held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers, including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World and PC World. The company features the largest network of technology-specific Web sites, with more than 400 around the world. IDG is also a leading producer of more than 170 computer-related events worldwide, including Storage Networking World®, Premier 100®, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, Macworld Conference & Expo, DEMO® and IDC Directions. IDC provides global market research and advice through offices in 50 countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com .

About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization, made up of more than 460 member companies and close to 7,000 active individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share the common goal of advancing the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at http://www.snia.org .