Commvault and Microsoft are combining two technologies – Azure and Metallic SaaS – to meet the need for proven data protection backed by powerful scalability and multi-layered security. Metallic enhances protection for Microsoft Office 365 data against accidental deletion, corruption, and malicious attacks. It also offers a range of additional options, from VMware backup and Microsoft SQL databases to endpoint protection.

“Today’s announcement combines two of the best cloud technologies to simplify and accelerate the customer journey to the cloud,” said Sanjay Mirchandani, president and CEO of Commvault. “This marks a new era for Commvault, and our direction is clear: to help our channel partners and end users simplify their IT with proven enterprise data protection solutions delivered via SaaS and secured in the cloud. The combination of Commvault and Microsoft truly brings together the most innovative data protection and cloud technologies that both companies have to offer.”.

This new phase of collaboration builds on Commvault's long-standing use of Azure capabilities, including application and data migration, long-term retention, and Azure Blob Storage for its scalability, durability, and security. The new agreement includes plans to develop a Metallic SaaS cloud storage offering on Azure Blob Storage and further product integrations with native Azure services.

“Commvault and Microsoft have always delivered trusted technologies to our mutual customers, and today’s announcement takes our long-standing relationship to a new level at a critical time for businesses to adopt cloud and SaaS technologies,” said Tad Brockway, corporate vice president of Azure Storage. “Metallic SaaS with Microsoft Azure offers one of the industry’s most powerful solutions for storing and protecting mission-critical enterprise data—in the cloud and beyond.”.

Ronald Dowden, Director of the IT Unit at Johns Hopkins University, states: “It’s clear to me that Commvault and Microsoft are committed to building increasingly integrated solutions that meet the scalability and scope needs and requirements of my organization in a hybrid world. Their innovations have helped us meet the challenges of moving nearly five petabytes of data to the Azure cloud. We’ve reduced our data center’s environmental footprint and the overhead of managing storage, while protecting thousands of virtual servers, applications, and projects across our institution. The agility, scalability, and ease of management inherent in cloud and SaaS solutions are absolutely essential, as the pace of data growth shows no signs of slowing down.”.

One of Metallic's strengths is that it was built in the cloud, leveraging the best of Azure's native capabilities while also harnessing Commvault's leading technology—the same technology that large enterprises have relied on to protect their mission-critical applications and data. As part of the agreement, Metallic will be a featured SaaS data protection application in the Azure Marketplace for public and hybrid cloud IT customers. Commvault will also continue to support customers who choose alternative clouds based on their business requirements.