Forrester names Simpana 10 enterprise back-up software leader

DUBAI, UAE: CommVault announced that Forrester Research named it a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Backup Software, Q2 2013. The Forrester Wave is an objective methodology that evaluates vendors on current offering, strategy and market presence, against pre-defined evaluation criteria.

CommVault is top ranked in the current offering category for Simpana 10 software, scoring 4.45 points out of a possible five.

According to Forrester, "CommVault excels with an integrated platform. CommVault's primary strategy centers on providing a single platform for backup, recovery, continuity, archive and other data management and protection strategies. The 17-year old company uses its relative youth to its advantage, touting a modern approach to data protection."

Based on its Solving Forward philosophy, CommVault's data and information management solutions go beyond IT-centric functions of backup, archive, replication and snapshot management to address broad business needs. From a single platform, Simpana 10 provides secure, self-service access from mobile devices to all current and historical data created by an organization - from servers to laptops, in the data center and the cloud - and empowers workers with compliance search, data mining and reporting.

"CommVault's singular platform enables our customers to do more with less, by automating operations, reducing hardware costs and managing large data center and cloud environments," said N. Robert Hammer, chairman, president and CEO, CommVault. "We believe that Forrester's recognition of CommVault as a leader in enterprise backup and recovery software underscores our commitment to deliver data and information management innovations that improve efficiency and provide access and insight to data."