CommVault and Group Logic have entered into a partnership to extend file archiving to Mac environments for improved space management and storage hardware cost savings.
The companies said that the collaborated will deliver customers an integrated offering that enables Mac computers to utilise CommVault Simpana software to achieve access to archived data across mixed Mac, Windows and Unix environments. The Simpana software customers can take advantage of heterogeneous archiving to reclaim valuable primary storage capacity by retaining inactive data on storage tiers.
Simon Taylor, senior director of information access management at CommVault, said: “Now, Simpana Archive software customers can reduce both the costs and risks associated with archiving files across mixed Mac and Windows environments. Moreover, they can achieve significant operational improvements as well as economies of scale by archiving to any number of storage tiers and hardware using our centralized management console.”
Group Logic’s ArchiveConnect is a client application that runs on each Mac desktop to ensure that Mac Finder differentiates between online and archived files while treating these archived files as though they were offline in order to avoid unwanted, laborious and time-consuming data recalls.
The Simpana software archive module and ArchiveConnect remove the previous archiving restrictions placed on Mac users while elevating end-user productivity and operational efficiencies in heterogeneous environments, the companies said.
In addition, Simpana software customers with mixed Mac and Windows platforms can improve space management and reduce backup and recovery windows by decreasing the size of primary data volumes.
Andy Lewis, SVP of business development at Group Logic, said: “ As a leader in its space, we are very excited to be partnering with CommVault to bring the power of the award-winning Simpana software to our Mac customers, as well as to allow existing and prospective CommVault customers to integrate Macs into their data management strategies and gain the benefits of file system archiving for their mixed environments.”
