CommVault points to virtualisation of mission critical applications in 2014

CommVault has predicted that the biggest technology impact on IT departments in 2014 will be the virtualisation of mission critical applications. In 2013, it was Mobile and Big Data that continued to drive conversations in storage but with employees now increasingly working remotely, IT organisations not only risk struggling to manage data but may also meet obstacles in providing secure access to information created on mobile devices. Similarly, this mountain of data is forcing companies to rethink how to securely capture, store and retrieve data to derive more value from it – whilst remaining compliant.

Wednesday, 8th January 2014 Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Robbie Wright, senior product marketing manager, focused on server virtualisation and cloud solutions at CommVault, suggests that there was more of an emphasis in 2013 on creating modern data management strategies, and that the synchronisation of files and preparing automated retention methods will now be the priority.

He says, “Enterprises are becoming more comfortable with the security and scale of public cloud resources from big providers so rather than burden their networks, they are instead turning to the facility when using a heavy application like SharePoint, Oracle or SAP. I believe that in 2014 private cloud growth is most likely to come from industries like finance and healthcare where there is significant compliance or security issues, and a need to know that data hosted onsite is treated as mission critical.”

This is one of the many reasons CommVault has worked hard to integrate its Simpana 10 software with cloud platforms – allowing organisations to seamlessly move data from a CommVault-protected on-premises data centre to infrastructure as a service from leading cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s also why CommVault has announced new integration with Amazon Glacier, which is an extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving, making it possible for customers and service provider partners to efficiently leverage AWS cloud services in a simple, cost-effective way to provide cloud-based services that meet SLAs and budgetary requirements.

Wright adds: “In addition, the application-centric nature of IT will make it easier to spin up VMs than ever before. Because of this, costs associated with VM sprawl will continue to grow and enterprises will need a better management strategy to classify, identify and put policies in place around VM retirement and archiving. If not, companies will end up paying to store data that is never going to be used again thus burdening the network.”