CommVault Enters Archive Market

OCEANPORT, N.J. -- CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leading provider of Unified Data Management® solutions, today announced new initiatives to accelerate its push into the global archive market, which includes the appointment of Michael Ivanov as the head of the company's newly formed Archive Center of Excellence (ACOE).

Reporting to David West, CommVault's vice president of marketing and business development, Ivanov will spearhead the ACOE's targeting of the data archive market, increase core product competency, develop relevant sales and marketing programs, and establish thought leadership, while collaborating and recruiting relevant partners dedicated to archive management. The development of an aggressive business strategy for the global archive market will complement CommVault's existing programs for its data protection, replication and storage management product lines, and build on its growing archive install base of hundreds of customers.

"Mike is an ideal leader for our Archive Center of Excellence and his expertise will help accelerate our penetration of the global archive market," said David West, vice president of marketing and business development, CommVault. "He uniquely combines valuable enterprise experience with an entrepreneurial passion that will be invaluable as we build on the potential offered by our data archive product line. His extensive marketing and product management experience with software solutions will be especially important as we deliver additional components of our Unified Data Management strategy and increase customer adoption of technologies beyond our leading backup software."

CommVault Systems Inc.