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Commvault Metallic with Microsoft Azure – from seismic to tectonic

By cfheoh | July 13, 2020 - 9:30 am |July 11, 2020 Backup, Business Continuity, BYOD, Cloud, Clumio, Commvault, Data, Data Archiving, Data Availability, Data Management, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Transformation, Disaster Recovery, Druva, Hedvig, Kubernetes, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Object Storage, OwnBackup, Software Defined Storage, Software-defined Datacenter
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When the elephant rumbles in the jungle, the whole village takes notice. That was what happened 2 weeks ago when Commvault® announced their multi-year agreement to place Metallic™ into deeper integration with Microsoft® Azure. This strategic partnership will consummate several key areas between the 2 companies, which are Engineering, Go To Market (GTM) and Sales.

The “low hanging fruit” move is of course the tight(er) integration with Microsoft® Azure Blob Storage but the more exciting anticipation is “What else is next“.

Metallic – A Commvault venture

Cloud First, Cloud Next, Cloud Big

The Metallic™ SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) offering isn’t new. It was unveiled as a Commvault® venture at Commvault® GO 2019, but it was only open to the US market then. Earlier last month, Commvault® switched on Metallic™ for the Canadian market, and it is inevitable that Metallic™ is coming to a region near you and I. ANZ is next, according to the grapevine, followed by Europe.

An O’Reilly® Media Cloud Adoption survey in January and February 2020 (just before the COVID-19 pandemic) revealed that 25% of the respondents “said that their companies plan to move all of their applications to a cloud context in the next year“. This is no coincidence. It is now Cloud First; Cloud Next; Cloud Big.

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