Nell'ambito del ciclo dei webinar CRUI, Commvault introduce il tema dell'adattamento delle strategie di data protection alle infrastrutture Cloud. Commvault tramite la propria piattaforma di Singular Information Management ha l’obiettivo di raggiungere un livello di protezione del dato il più elevato possibile. Abbinata alla piattaforma Microsoft Azure permette di trarre il massimo vantaggio possibile dal cloud e di garantire livelli di servizio convenienti, sicuri e flessibili. In un mercato in cui il cloud è il contesto di riferimento per la riduzione dei costi di capitale, l’uso della accoppiata Azure – Commvault permette di incrementare la velocità delle procedure, permettendo di risparmiare tempo e risorse. La piattaforma Commvault è in grado di gestire semplicemente qualsiasi tipologia di ambiente composto da macchine fisiche, macchine virtuali, applicazioni, desktop, laptop o cloud con la possibilità di accedere ai propri dati da semplici interfacce web o anche da applicazioni per smartphone e tablet. Durante il seminario sono state illustrate le principali caratteristiche della piattaforma per valutarne la rilevanza per il Sistema dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca.

1. Corradino Milone
PreSales
Commvault Italia
Data Protection
& Cloud

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• Established in 1996, headquartered in
New Jersey, USA
• Over 2,000 employees operating
across six continents
• More than 40 percent of revenues
outside of the Americas
• 100% organic growth / single code base
• Strong balance sheet, no debt
Snapshot of Commvault

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Data conversations continue to evolve
The impact of the cloud, mobile, exploding volumes of
data, and the need to modernize legacy systems are
driving new data requirements:
 Keep pace with data growth
 Always on and always available
 No vendor lock-in (open)
 Embedded search and analytics
 Seamless and universal access
 Control and visibility from inception
It’s a challenging time for today’s IT professionals —
but also one of opportunity for those who are up for
the challenge.

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Realities of your data
of data is production
40% 60%
• Analytics
• Compliance
• Business intelligence
• Archives
• Disaster recovery
• Governance
• Off-site
• Test and dev ops
• Backups
• Snaps and clones
for reporting
of the remaining data is
consumed by secondary
workloads:
*Commvault estimates based on available market research

5. 5
To succeed, you need to
think of data not as a
challenge, but as a critical
strategic asset
Financial HumanPhysical Data

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COMMVAULT Platform

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A unique platform to protect, manage and access data
• Integrated Software Platform: efficiency, simplified
operations
• Enterprise Intelligence: automation, tiering and
indexing
• Virtual Repository: centralized management,
deduplicaiton, security
• Self – Service Access: improved productivity, cost
reduction

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Commvault’s advantage: unique platform capabilities
One virtual repository
to aid in access and use,
and eliminate the issue
of “copy data”
One Virtual Repository
Protect Access Comply Share
Single Index
Management Operations
Dedupe Encrypt Compress Retain Replicate Tier Expire
Physical Mobile Private Hybrid SaaSPublic M Public AVirtual

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Commvault’s advantage: unique platform capabilities
Single index
lets you know where
and what your data is,
in unprecedented detail
One Virtual Repository
Protect Access Comply Share
Single Index
Management Operations
Physical Mobile Private Hybrid SaaSPublic M Public AVirtual
Classify Organize Report Policy Search Discover Analyze Collaborate
Physical Mobile Private Hybrid SaaSPublic M Public AVirtual

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One Virtual Repository
Protect Access Comply Share
Single Index
Management Operations
Manage Monitor Analyze Report Automate
Commvault’s advantage: unique platform capabilities
Industry-leading
management capability
provides a single pane
of glass
Physical Mobile Private Hybrid SaaSPublic M Public AVirtualPhysical Mobile Private Hybrid SaaSPublic M Public AVirtual

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Commvault’s advantage: unique platform capabilities
Single index
lets you know where
and what your data is,
in unprecedented detail
Industry-leading
management capability
provides a single pane
of glass
One virtual repository
to aid in access and use,
and eliminate the issue
of “copy data”
One Virtual Repository
Protect Access Comply Share
Single Index
Management Operations
Physical Mobile Private Hybrid SaaSPublic M Public AVirtual

12. Business Value
Increase visibility, reduce risk of data loss, enable strategic
IT initiatives, drive productivity & scale analytics.
IT Value
Reduce management, infrastructure, virtualization & cloud
costs while increasing recovery, availability & portability.

13. How we help you get strategic with your cloud

14. RATIONALIZE YOUR CLOUD STRATEGY
Get to the
cloud faster
Operationalize disaster
recovery in the cloud
Get productive
in the cloud
Make the cloud an
extension of your
data center

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A FAST, SMART CLOUD STRATEGY
Backup to the cloud
• Sending on-premise production data to cloud storage
Disaster recovery in the cloud
• Recovering productions workloads in the cloud
Backup in the cloud
• Protecting workloads in the cloud and moving to an alternative location
Test/Dev in the cloud
• Development in private/public cloud

16. Backup to The Cloud

17. WE HAVE SOLUTIONS
THAT SET US APART
Backup to the cloud
The challenge:
• Fast, secure, efficient movement of data offsite
to cloud storage
The Commvault difference:
• #1 in cloud storage integrations (21+)
• Deep cloud compute support (AWS and Azure)

18. Backup to the Cloud
Protecting data at the primary location by replicating the data over the
network to an external cloud provider’s storage solution
Clients
Media Agent
Local
Storage
Cloud
Storage
Encrypted
Scenario / Suitability Requirements
 Offsite Storage / “Tape
Replacement” Scenario –
no DR to the Cloud
requirement, but can be
extended if required
 Direct connectivity to
Object Storage – no
translation/gateway/ hardware
de-dupe devices needed
 Cloud/Object Storage target
can be provided by either
Public IaaS or a Service
Provider (BaaS)
 Minimum 1x Media Agent On-
Premise
 No VM in Cloud required for
B&R
 1x DDB hosted on On-Premise
Media Agent
 Can use direct internet
connection, or dedicated
network to cloud provider for
best performance (ie. AWS
Direct Connect, Azure
ExpressRoute, Google Direct
Peering)
REST / HTTP

19. Disaster recovery
in the cloud

20. WE HAVE SOLUTIONS
THAT SET US APART
Disaster recovery in the cloud
The challenge:
• Complex in-cloud recoveries
• High cost of disaster recovery for Tier 2/3
workloads
The Commvault difference:
• Automate and orchestrate in-cloud recovery
of applications (for AWS and Azure)

21. Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Providing operational recovery of primary site applications to a secondary site
from an external cloud provider
Clients
MA
Local Storage
Cloud
Storage
Encrypted
Premise Based
MA
Automating DR Business Process
• Application recovery & testing
• Policy based VM provisioning
• Cross-platform
• Azure, AWS, or VMware
• Private to Public
• Physical to Virtual
Commvault Workflow
Clients

22. Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Providing operational recovery of primary site applications to a secondary site
from an external cloud provider
Scenario / Suitability Requirements
 Off-site Storage
Requirement & Cold DR
Site in the Cloud – only use
infrastructure when a DR
event occurs, saving time &
money (IaaS, DRaaS)
 Can utilize VM
Provisioning to provision
VMs prior to Restore –
Customer can opt to use VM
Provisioning or their own tools
for deployment of VMs in
Cloud prior to restore
 Minimum 1x Media Agent On-
Premise, and minimum 1x
Media Agent in Cloud
 Add additional DDB(s) in cloud
MA if you want to also drive
same MA(s) for creating a
Long Term Retention copy
within the Cloud, from the
Short-Term Retention copy
 Highly Recommended to use
dedicated network to cloud
provider for best performance
(AWS Direct Connect, Azure
ExpressRoute)

23. Protecting cloud workloads
(Backup in the Cloud)

24. WE HAVE SOLUTIONS
THAT SET US APART
Backup in the cloud
The challenge:
• Absent or undefined data protection strategy
for cloud-based applications
The Commvault difference:
• Deliver the same recovery SLAs to workloads
in the cloud or on-premises

25. Protection in the Cloud
Providing operational recovery active workloads and data within an external
provider’s cloud
Cloud Object
Storage Premise Based
MA
• Single interface for on premise &
public cloud assets
• Seamless, unified provisioning &
management
• Complete data mobility
Applications
Cloud Block
Storage
Scenario / Suitability Requirements
 Data Protection for Cloud-
based Workload –
protecting active workloads
within an existing IaaS Cloud
(Production, Dev/Test)
 (optional) DASH Copy to
another Cloud, or to On-
Premise – complete data
mobility – replicate to
another geographical region
with IaaS provider, a different
IaaS provider, or back to On-
Premise sites
 Agents deployed in each VM
within IaaS provider
 Minimum 1x Media Agent in
Cloud, and (optional) minimum
1x Media Agent at secondary
site (whether cloud or On-
Premise)
 1x DDB hosted on Media Agent
 Recommended to use dedicated
network from cloud provider to
on premise for best
performance when replicating
back to On-Premise

26. Cloud Operations

27. WE HAVE SOLUTIONS
THAT SET US APART
Cloud operations
The challenge:
• Unexpected waste, cost and complexity
in managing cloud resources
The Commvault difference:
• Efficiently manage cloud resources across
multiple platforms (AWS and Azure)

28. Self-Service Cloud Provisioning
IT Governed & Monitored but User Driven
MS HyperV
Public Private
HybridMS Azure
policy policy policypolicy
$1M USD/y productivity
improvement with cloud
provisioning and
monitors
CV R&D & Test Teams

29. Cloud Orchestration & Provisioning
Agile Cloud Automation
• Begin DevOps by automating the end-to-end delivery & management
• Supporting VMware, MSFT HyperV, Azure and Amazon cloud environments
Personalized Service with Managed Governance
• Ensure that each user receives the right size resource via 24/7 self-service
Flexibility and Transparency
• Provision and manage multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure and applications
using a service catalog framework
• Eliminate bolt-on expenses, letting you drive higher returns on outcome
Managed Insights and Efficiency
• Provide consistent, automated delivery and management of IT
• Automated reclamation offers further savings by driving down ongoing cloud
usage costs
Test/Dev in the cloud

30. Commvault and Azure

31. COMMVAULT & MICROSOFT: LEADING BY EXAMPLE
• Azure Supported since 2008 (storage/compute)
• First customer, Afognak (MSFT Cloud Services)
• 6+ years: CommVault uses Azure in production.
• Tiered storage, Azure Compute (commvault.com)
• 15 years, Data Management & Protection
• “DogFood” & Microsoft Office Products Group
• 13 years, XBox & XBox-Live.
• A complex SQL example
• The past 2 years, Microsoft Azure (Global Foundation
Services, Internal Standard)

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Long history of working with Azure
• First Windows ISV to be “Azure Certified”
• First Windows ISV to have product available on Microsoft
marketplace:
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/marketplace/partners/commvault/commvault/
• Supported on Day-1:
• Geo-Replication (akin to “aux” copies within Azure)
• Express-Route (higher-speed connectivity)
• Import/Export (physically send drives to Azure
datacenters)

33. Commvault Cloud Storage Library
Native connection to the cloud setup in less than an hour
Cloud Storage Library Configuration
• Cloud library is a another target where Commvault can write
data to via it’s policy based engine
• Simple configuration, setup can be up in less than hour
• Can be configured as primary or secondary storage target
• 21+ supported cloud targets
• Tuning ability to adjust performance
2 Clicks to the Cloud w/ Azure & Commvault
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jQwFbosdcc
Cloud Storage Library
Blob Storage
Commvault
Media Agent

34. Protecting Active Workload in the Azure Cloud with
Commvault
Continuous Data Replicator (CDR)
• CDR allows near time continuous data replication for
critical workloads
• VMs will need a similarly sized Azure VM instance
running in Azure to receive any replicated data
Agent-In-Guest
• Used to protect a wide variety of OS’s & applications
• Can be captured on the production workload and
protected to the Media Agent residing in Azure
• can also be replicated to a MA residing in a different geo
Azure Snapshots
• Allow for crash consistent point in time copy of an Azure
disk
Continuous Replication
Different Geo
VM
w/Agents
Commvault Workflow
Orchestration

35. Key learnings
• Native cloud support will de-risk your next
move. Choose a tool that allows broad vendor
support for cloud storage.
• Bandwidth availability may mean you need to
be selective. Choose a tool that allows you to
move unique data only once.
• Avoid vendor lock in. Choose a tool that
allows seamless movement of data across
various platforms.
• Avoid gateway lock in. Cloud appliances make
it easy but limit what you can do with your
data.