Data Domain, CommVault Partner

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Data Domain, aleading provider of Enterprise Protection Storage systems for diskbackup and network-based disaster recovery, today announced that ithas achieved the status of CommVault(R) Strategic Partner. CommVault,a leading provider of Unified Data Management(R) solutions, extendsStrategic Partnership status to a select group of solution providersthat have demonstrated an investment in time and resources to teamwith CommVault's technical, marketing and sales forces to deliverjoint solutions. Data Domain is already a member in CommVault'sPartnerAdvantage(TM) program. As a strategic partner, enterprisecustomers will benefit from Data Domain's elevated status since thetwo companies now will expand their compatibility testing and furtheralign their go-to-market strategies to bring enhanced data protectionofferings to market.

The combination of Data Domain's deduplication-enabled EnterpriseProtection Storage systems and CommVault Galaxy(R) backup andrecovery have already allowed numerous enterprises to enjoy highperformance disk-based backup and disaster recovery solutions thatreduce costs and work more efficiently than tape-based solutions.

"CommVault and Data Domain already have a strong relationship and ademonstrated track record of success together in the backup space,"said Beth White, vice president of marketing at Data Domain. "Goingforward, our goal is to further optimize our technologies for dataprotection application environments. Together, CommVault and DataDomain can offer solutions that leverage our respective strengths forthe benefit of enterprise users."

CommVault software products all use CommVault's Common TechnologyEngine (CTE) architecture, a unique scalable framework optimized fordata management. Offering a suite of unified data protection,replication and storage resource management solutions that are builton a common set of management services, including secure datamovement, a common management console interface, and shared devicemanagement, CommVault enables customers to meet their data managementneeds with a single software solution.

"End users are demanding data protection solutions that reduce thecomplexity of managing data in enterprise IT environments, andinteroperability is key to successfully deploying these solutionstoday," said Dave West, vice president of marketing and businessdevelopment, CommVault. "We are pleased to collaborate with DataDomain to bring our jointly certified solutions to market and extendthe benefit of our combined data protection expertise to our jointcustomers."CommVault Systems Inc.

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