{"id":30201,"date":"2020-11-17T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-30T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:12:26","slug":"commvault-unveils-latest-enhancements-for-containers-launches-metallic-baas-for-kubernetes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.commvault.com\/news\/commvault-unveils-latest-enhancements-for-containers-launches-metallic-baas-for-kubernetes","title":{"rendered":"Commvault unveils latest enhancements for containers, launches Metallic BaaS for Kubernetes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
New Metallic VM & Kubernetes backup solution broadens Commvault\u2019s comprehensive container storage and protection portfolio<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tinton Falls, NJ \u2013 November 17, 2020<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Today Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a recognized global enterprise software leader in the management of data across cloud and on-premises environments, announced new offerings that provide customers enterprise-grade data protection for Kubernetes, in a consumption model that best meets their needs. The new Metallic VM & Kubernetes Backup solution joins Commvault\u2019s Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform and Commvault Complete Data Protection<\/a> to store, protect and migrate containers in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With a comprehensive and robust portfolio of solutions for containers data protection, Commvault is offering customers choice in how they address challenges associated with container storage and protection. \u201cI love how Commvault have brought their \u2018A-game\u2019 to containers and Kubernetes. They way they’ve integrated their enterprise-grade Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform with Kubernetes is as slick as it comes, and they’ve followed that up with Metallic’s cloud-native model for Kubernetes data protection. All in all, Commvault has made it possible to deploy and protect enterprise applications on Kubernetes, be it on-prem, in the cloud, or delivered through SaaS,\u201d said Nigel Poulton, Author and Market Commentator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New Metallic BaaS for Containers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Newly available today, Metallic VM & Kubernetes Backup provides simple and scalable SaaS data protection for containers and is part of Metallic\u2019s new hybrid cloud data protection portfolio, which doubles Commvault\u2019s portfolio of unique BaaS solutions. Unlike solutions that require point products or third-party tools to back up and protect cloud, container, and virtual workloads, Metallic offers a single solution to quickly and easily protect customers\u2019 modern, hybrid cloud workloads with the simplicity of BaaS. Protected workloads include any CNCF-Certified Kubernetes distribution with validated support for Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and VMware Tanzu. This is in addition to Metallic\u2019s comprehensive support for Virtual Machine environments, including Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Native Azure Virtual Machines, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), and VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today\u2019s cloud strategies include hybrid workloads that span customers\u2019 IT infrastructure, with some workloads running in the cloud and others running on-premises. Customers need a solution that protects Kubernetes applications, along with the rest of their enterprise workloads to eliminate expensive data silos and point product complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cContainers have become a strategic asset\u2014and strong container platform strategies and services are required for success. Like the cloud, container adoption is accelerating, and with that comes the need for enterprise-grade services that treat containers like any other business-critical data. We are seeing an increasingly large number of new cloud native data protection and data management solutions that are all very containers-specific, but in the enterprise they are just starting to merge; having a story that bridges all of it is very compelling. That is what I\u2019ve seen Commvault bring that no one else does,\u201d said Steve McDowell, Senior Analyst & Strategist, Storage & Data Center Technologies, Moor Insights & Strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commvault Software-Defined Storage for Containers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent enhancements in Commvault\u2019s Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform provide customers the flexibility to develop and run new modern applications with declarative data placement, encryption, and data protection in any Kubernetes environment. It also offers the ability to seamlessly store, protect, and migrate containers across hybrid multi-cloud environments to speed the DevOps process and remove any cloud-managed or self-managed Kubernetes service barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coupled with its broad integration for on-premises infrastructure, cloud storage, and container orchestrators, the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform provides native Kubernetes integration, offering a comprehensive solution capable of managing data, regardless of where it lives across containers, cloud native applications, and virtualized workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEnterprise adoption of containers is rapidly increasing \u2014 and containers need to be protected while keeping pace with DevOps teams,\u201d said Ranga Rajagopalan, VP of Products at Commvault. \u201cAs containers move from sandbox to production, it is no longer possible to treat containers as an island in the cloud. Today, through these offerings, we\u2019re making it simple to protect containers \u2014 together with all the other applications in the enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commvault has also been named as an outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection report<\/a>, which was published last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kubernetes-based containers provide IT organizations the flexibility to deploy, scale and migrate workloads without end-user interruption. Metallic\u2019s new BaaS-based platform further simplifies protection for containers \u2013 fully integrated with K8s via the Container Storage Interface (CSI). Additionally, any customer who purchases at least 10 VMs within the Metallic VM & Kubernetes Backup product by May 18, 2021, will receive the Kubernetes Backup component free of charge for the lifetime of their subscription (further terms and details can be found on our website). This follows a stream of innovative capabilities introduced by Commvault for Kubernetes in the past few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n