CommVault Systems Attracting New Customers from Competing Solutions

CommVault Outperforms Peer Group in End-User Demand for Spending in TheInfoPro Storage Wave 12 Report Earning A Top Spot in Vendor Conversions

OCEANPORT, NJ, June 16, 2009 -- CommVault Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVLT) garnered a top spot in attracting new customers from competing solutions, according to TheInfoPro™ Wave 12 Storage Study. Twenty percent of respondents reported they had switched to CommVault from another vendor in the past year. Despite continuing downward budgetary pressure, CommVault remained one of the top vendors in end-user demand for increased spending in 2009.

While nearly half of those polled cited budget cuts this year, 44 percent of current CommVault customers who took part in the study also reported plans to spend more money on CommVault® Simpana® software in 2009. CommVault continues to sustain strong customer loyalty as 100 percent of the current CommVault customers who took part in the study revealed no plans to replace Simpana software with an offering from a competing vendor.

TIP's Top Storage Initiatives and Challenges

According to TheInfoPro's study of Fortune 1000 and Midsize Enterprise companies in North America and Europe, backup and recovery redesign has risen to the top of the list of key storage initiatives, surpassed only by consolidation. As companies continue to look for ways to solve their data management challenges with existing legacy solutions, they are recognizing that many of these solutions were architected, designed and deployed before new challenges associated with unprecedented data growth and advancements in infrastructure requirements, bandwidth and performance needs, emerged.

Backup redesign was closely followed by tiered storage buildout, technology refreshes, virtualization adoption and archiving as priority initiatives according to the study. Staffing constraints, budget restrictions, technology complexity and the need for products that work were identified as the biggest barriers to the successful completion of these top initiatives.

In the study's Storage Networking Technology Heat Index®, which gauges the immediacy of user need and forecasted spending, backup data reduction/deduplication ranked No. 1, followed by online data reduction/deduplication, VTL for open systems and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel.

Health Dialog Services Cures Faulty Backups by Switching to CommVault Simpana Software

Companies of all sizes, including large, multi-national organizations and distributed enterprises, increasingly are selecting CommVault over competing solutions for its Singular Information Management® approach to data protection, disaster recovery, archiving, replication, deduplication, discovery and resource management.

Health Dialog Services Corp., a leading provider of care management services, struggled with inadequate load balancing with Symantec Veritas NetBackup, which led to continuous backup job failures. According to Health Dialog, the troublesome process required one and a half full-time staffers up to 60 hours a week to manage and troubleshoot the backups of 135 TBs of critical data. Furthermore, Health Dialog's cost to renew its annual NetBackup maintenance contract exceeded $130,000, which prompted the company to seek a more reliable, robust platform with much lower maintenance fees.

"We leverage CommVault's load balancing to safeguard 450 mission-critical servers," says Ken Holton, director of IT infrastructure for Health Dialog Services. "Backups no longer are on my radar. Plus, granular restores of SharePoint and Exchange files are among the best ROI in switching to CommVault."

"Our most recent storage study reinforces CommVault's continuing ability to generate end-user demand for spending while other vendors are showing flat performance for 2009," says Robert Stevenson, managing director of storage for TheInfoPro. "In looking at backup-related storage vendors, only CommVault sustained year-over-year spending increases for the past three years."

"At a time when many end-users are forced to scale back their technology plans, it's gratifying to learn that organizations are continuing to allocate more IT budget dollars to CommVault," says David West, vice president of Marketing and Business Development for CommVault. "The strong track record of end-users switching to CommVault to solve their legacy backup and recovery infrastructure problems as part of a much needed technology refresh further validates the clear cost savings and operational efficiency benefits of our unique next-generation Singular Information Management® approach."

Source: CommVault Systems