BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and a provider of services oriented storage solutions, and CommVault announced the launch of Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0. The Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 leverages CommVault Simpana 8.0 software suite.

Available immediately from Hitachi Data Systems, this software is part of the integrated data protection solutions portfolio and includes enhancements in recovery operations, simplified license management, and remote office protection as well as new advances in virtual server protection, data de-duplication, recovery management and content organization.

Eric-Jan Schmidt, vice president, corporate marketing, Hitachi Data Systems, said: “Organizations of all sizes are striving to improve their data protection operations. Rapidly growing data volumes, shrinking backup windows, and increasing demands for data availability are driving the demand for enhanced solutions."

Dave West, VP, marketing and business development, CommVault, said: “Our biggest software release to date, CommVault’s Simpana 8.0 software is built on a singular, unified platform. With the new features and backup and recovery performance enhancements in CommVault Simpana 8, Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 can help IT professionals reduce the amount of data under management, address the growing cost of storage management and simplify the operations of their storage environments.”

Key enhancements of the Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 include:

Virtualized Environments Data Protection – With virtual client support for VMware Infrastructure and Microsoft Hyper-V, the next generation platform includes multiple recovery options of virtualized environments. Auto discovery helps eliminate time consuming manual processes, while ensuring users meet their protection and recovery service level agreements.

Global Embedded Data De-duplication – Hitachi Data Protection Suite expands the benefits of block level de-duplication across an entire organization’s backup and archive copies from disk to tape, resulting in cost efficient scaling and performance across the entire data management infrastructure.

Remote Office Protection – The platform provides multiple options for protecting business critical data at distributed remote and branch office locations, facilitating WAN efficiencies, rapid recovery, and reduced risk and cost of downtime. Centralized, automated policies applied to data residing on workstations and laptops help facilitate compliance and search for rapid e-Discovery of orphaned, backup and archived data.