CommVault Systems

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company_name = CommVault Systems Inc.
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company_type = Public
foundation = 1988
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location = Oceanport, New Jersey
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industry = storage management software
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homepage = [http://www.commvault.com/ www.commvault.com]

CommVault Systems Inc. (NASDAQ|CVLT) is a United States based company specializing in data and storage management software.

Products

CommVault produces the Simpana software suite, a modular product comprising:
* Simpana Backup and Recovery -- backup software and recovery
* QuickRecovery -- snapshot management
* Continuous Data Replicator -- file-based replication
* DataArchiver -- hierarchical storage management
* DataArchiver Compliance -- compliance
* Storage Manager – system resource management and storage reporting
* CommNet ServiceManager -- management and reporting
* SIS -- Single Instance Store

CommVault competes directly with other companies in this field, including Symantec/Veritas Software and their Backup Exec and NetBackup products, EMC's Legato product, Computer Associates Arcserve, Hewlett-Packard OpenView Storage Data Protector, Syncsort Backup Express, and others.

History

Created in 1988 as a development group in AT&T's Bell Labs, the group produced AT&T's in-house backup software, Automatic Backup, Archive and Recovery Software. AT&T CommVault was spun off with Lucent in 1996 and later that year went private with a management buyout. Their current headquarters are located in Oceanport, New Jersey. The company went public in September 2006.

External links

* [http://www.commvault.com/ Official company home page]
* [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/commvault/ Unofficial CommVault Listserv (established 2002)]