Data is most important for many things in our day to day life. Such as it powers our communications, transportation as well as our daily routines. However, it is must be able to harness data for all the needs mention above. But we can see continuous changes in data. It is moving as well, growing fastly. Thus, data security is the main concern in all this scenario. Because future technology depends on data. As well, the IT industry highly depends on data and it is changing. These changes are good but bring new challenges and need advanced methods to protect the data. The data security firm Commvault is working to bring the advanced level of data protection. Also, it develops software that can handle critical IT operations. In fact, Commvault makes sure that customers can use and manage data with maximum safety.
About Commvault
It is a data protection and management software firm that is traded publicly. The firm is headquartered in Tinton Falls in New Jersey. Software developed by Commvault is best known for data backup and recovery. As well, infrastructure management and cloud base retention and compliance of digital data are feasible with Commvault.
The Backstory of foundation
In 1988, Bell Lab set up Commvault as a development group. That time, the main focus of this group was on data management and it’s backup and recovery. Thereafter, it was handover to the AT&T network system as one of the business units of the firm. This journey didn’t stop here. Commvault became part of Lucent technologies. However, it again sold and finally rise as a corporate unit during 1996.
Initially, the firm worked for managing the network storage and launched the products in 2000. Presently, it is a publicly-traded firm since 2007. One more change in Commvault is about the position of CEO. Recently in 2019, Sanjay Mirchandani held the position of CEO at Commvault.
Acquisition strategy
To explore the business, acquiring the firms is a proven strategy for most of the leading businesses. Like Commvault does. In 2019, the firm acquired the firm, Hedvig. It was a software storage based startup. With this acquisition, Commvault will improve its service.
Awards and recognition
The firm is one of the dominant companies in the field of data management and security. It is well recognized within the industry for its individual as well as corporate achievements. Commvault has received 5-star ratings from the CRN partner program guide in 2020. As well, it was the recipient of Storage magazine and SearchStorage’s products of the year award, 2019. Recently, its work for Data center backup and recovery is appreciated and it scored the highest rank in Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities.
Apart from this, the firm is honored with many such awards since it’s the foundation. Today, Commvault is one of the leading names in the industry.
Master Mind in Commvault
Sanjay Mirchandani- Commvault’ CEO
He is an award-winning CIO and a well-known Global leader. Mirchandani has over 30 years of business and IT leadership experience at Commvault, Puppet, Microsoft, and VMware. Coming to his education, he attended the University of Pittsburgh to study Master of Business Administration. As well, he went to Drew University to get a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. In 2011, he received Drew University’s Achievement in Business award. His primary education is completed in Mumbai at Cathedral and John Connon School.
Career
Prior to joining Commvault, he held senior leadership positions at VMware, EMC, and Microsoft. As well, he is expertise in the IT transformation. Most of the people unaware of the fact that he is responsible to grow the user base of Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions. He grew it to more than 40,000. The role of Mirchandani to grow the network of Puppet is appreciable. Currently, the policies of Commvault is set under his guidance.
Bottom line
Commvault’s approach towards data protection matches the requirements of changing the IT industry. In fact, it enabled automated data protection that efficient in data back up and recovery. For its continuous dedication to protect and manage data efficiently, Commvault marked the name in several awards. As well, the innovative approach of the firm raised the standards of data protection in the IT industry. Today, many leading firms trust Commvault for its miscellaneous service
Jayshri is an Electronics Engineer, but her passion towards writing made her to be in this field. Apart from content writing, she loves reading, writing and surfing on various topics. In her free time, she likes to watch TV series and news. Sherlock Holmes is her all time favorite show. Jayshri loves cooking various Indian-western dishes.