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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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Tagged Active Directory, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Marketplac, Backup and Recovery, cloud first, cloud native backup, Commvault GO, Dynamic Storage Pools, Enterprise File Sync & Share, Metallic, native cloud backup, Office 365 backup, SaaS, Salesforce.com, software-as-a-service, SQL Server, Windows Active Directory

Misplacing Digital Transformation Priorities

By cfheoh | January 20, 2020 - 2:29 pm |January 20, 2020 Backup, Big Data, Business Continuity, BYOD, CIFS, Citrix, Cloud, Data, Data Archiving, Data Availability, Data Corruption, Data Management, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Transformation, Disaster Recovery, Dropbox, Filesystems, FreeNAS, Katana Logic, Microsoft, NAS, NetApp, NFS, Object Storage, QNAP, Reliability, SMB
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[ Note: This article was published on LinkedIn on Jan 20th 2020. Here is the link to the original article ]

Digital Transformation is again a big word for 2020. As more and more organizations becoming digitalized, the opportunity to communicate, interact and collaborate has become easier, faster, more convenient than ever.

File Sharing forever

Working in projects, file sharing is a fundamental activity that underpins communication and collaboration. Network drives via NAS (network attached storage) for file sharing are common within the confines of the company network. The perimeter of the company’s network is further extended via VPN (virtual private network) access, allowing branch offices and remote individuals to access the files from the central NAS server. It is a workable solution albeit poor network performance in delivery, challenges of siloed data management and difficult scalability.

The phenomenon of Dropbox

When Dropbox arrived circa 2008-2009, it took the industry by storm. They practically invented the term BYOD (bring your own device) and capture the imagination of the file sharing market. Gartner recognized this and coined EFSS (enterprise file sync and share) to consolidate the burgeoning file sharing market. Pretenders and challengers flooded the market, and after the shakedown, Box.net, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and of course, Dropbox, are some of the market leaders today.

A recent report by Markets & Markets listed these companies as players in the EFSS market.

EFSS Players by Markets & Markets October 2019

As the wheels of Digital Transformation turn, EFSS is changing as well. Gartner EFSS is now the CCP (content collaboration platform), releasing their Gartner Content Collaboration Platforms MarketPeer Insights report in April 2019. Continue reading →

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Tagged 2 factor authentication, Box, BYOD, Content Collaboration, cyberresilience, cybersecurity, Dropbox, Easishare, Enterprise File Sync & Share, Google Drive, Inspire-Tech, Microsoft OneDrive, Multi factor authentication, people, process, ransomware, technology
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