Commvault Set to Release Cloud Backup-as-a-Service
Cloud migration was among the key themes at this year’s third annual Commvault Go conference in Nashville
October 12, 2018
Commvault is about to offer its flagship data protection and e-discovery portfolio as a cloud-based managed service.
The new Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery-as-a-Service (B&RaaS), unveiled during this week’s third annual Commvault Go conference in Nashville, will allow partners to deliver backup and recovery of virtual machines as a subscription-based offering hosted in different public clouds. It is initially available through Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microosft Azure. The service will also include backup-as-a-service protection of cloud-native application data, initially from Office 365 and Salesforce.
Set to roll out this quarter, the service will appeal to MSPs and CSPs seeking to offer more simplified turnkey data protection services without implementing any hardware. It is also aimed at customers who don’t want to deploy or manage gear, especially at remote sites.
Commvault is launching the new service nearly three months after the company revamped its go-to-market strategy by consolidating its data protection and e-discovery portfolio, combined with a companywide shift toward selling and delivering through partners. The company is rolling out new cloud-based subscription services.
“Customers around the world they tell us they want to effectively and efficiently use the public cloud,” said Commvault chairman, president and CEO Bob Hammer, speaking this week in a keynote session. “They want to get a seamless extension to their on-premises data centers.”
Commvault is known for its high-end data protection software used by large enterprises. The SaaS-type services are the company’s latest effort to broaden its addressable market to smaller organizations than it has traditionally served. While the new services will allow MSPs and CSPs to deliver Commvault’s backup-as-a-service to small shops, company officials see it having wide appeal over time.
“It is an effective way to get to the lower end of the market,” said Commvault COO Al Bunte, during a media briefing during this week’s conference. “Big enterprises can use this kind of offering for a remote location or a new location or something slightly different than what they have in their data centers today.”
Describing the new managed SaaS-type service as “a natural move,” Bunte explained that Commvault is putting together “market spaces,” which are platform layer connectors linking the backup-as-a-service suite with public cloud marketplaces.