CommVault Enters Agreement with NaviSite to Power Its Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offerings

CommVault today announced an arrangement with NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company and provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, to extend the data protection capabilities of Simpana® software to NaviSite’sNaviCloud^® portfolio.

CommVault will provide data protection and management capabilities for customers using NaviCloud Director, an enterprise-class cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution offered directly to customers via an intuitive self-service portal, and also delivered in conjunction with NaviSite’s broad portfolio of managed services.

The press release said, CommVaulthas designed Simpana software to be an open cloud data management platform offering broad integration with multiple applications, operating systems, hypervisors, and storage systems. Currently, more than 200 service providers deliver cloud and managed solutions powered by CommVault.

“Our clients come to us for solutions that can readily scale to meet their enterprise level requirements, while reducing risk and providing value back to the business,” said David Grimes, chief technology officer, NaviSite. “Simpana software satisfies our requirements and provides the capabilities of multiple point products we were evaluating within a single solution — providing a great degree of flexibility for our clients, while resulting in less complexity and costs for our internal organizations