CommVault Announces QiNetix 5.0 Software.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003

Highly Endorsed by the Storage Industry, QiNetix 5.0 Delivers

Ultimate Data Protection by Cost-Effectively Managing Data

Throughout its Lifecycle

CommVault(R) Systems, Inc., a provider of unified enterprise data management solutions, today announced CommVault QiNetix Version 5.0 software, which provides ultimate data protection: managing data throughout its lifecycle integrating backup/recovery, migration, archiving, replication and storage management. By lowering IT expense and optimizing IT services, QiNetix 5.0 ensures data availability and maximum ROI.

QiNetix 5.0 includes new DataArchiver software and compliance solutions, plus industry-leading enhancements to the Galaxy Backup/Recovery, DataMigrator and Quick Recovery software products. Highlights include:

    --  New DataArchiver 5.0 - provides customers with surveillance,
        discovery and complete access to Microsoft Exchange e-mail for
        compliance, regulatory or business needs. Offering
        cross-mailbox full content search, advanced sampling
        techniques and ability to capture and monitor all inbound and
        outbound e-mail, DataArchiver software helps to answer
        business' growing need to monitor and examine electronic
        communications. Features include: archival of targeted fixed
        content (e-mail), robust policy-based lifecycle management
        across all copies and rich search and discovery capabilities
        coupled with secure access. Like all applications within the
        QiNetix suite, DataArchiver leverages CommVault's Common
        Technology Engine (CTE) to reduce deployment and
        administration costs compared to individual point solutions.

    --  DataMigrator 5.0 - expanded support includes Solaris UFS file
        systems, Microsoft Windows 64-bit support, Exchange Outlook
        Web Access (OWA) support, .PST migration support and numerous
        performance and reliability improvements.

    --  Quick Recovery 5.0 - expanded support to include Solaris file
        systems and Oracle databases to deliver highly available
        enterprise infrastructures, plus expanded integration with
        SnapView 2.0 and Microsoft Virtual Shadow Service.

    --  Galaxy Backup and Recovery 5.0 - the four-time industry
        award-winner now includes the most user friendly set of
        advanced capabilities: CommVault Galaxy 5.0 expands
        platform/application support for Linux, IRIX and Apple
        Macintosh, and introduces new enterprise-class capabilities:

        --  Automatic Update Service ensures the latest service,
            security or software updates are automatically applied to
            all CommVault software modules,

        --  Backup Interleaving allows multiple backup streams from
            individual clients to be efficiently stored on a single
            piece of tape media,

        --  Image Level backup offers physical block level backup
            while retaining individual logical file restores,

        --  Network Bandwidth Control adjusts the amount of network
            capacity a particular client backup will consume,

        --  Restartable NDMP backups and Auxiliary Copy operations to
            ensure data protection operations complete and are more
            reliable.

In addition, Galaxy 5.0 debuts the "Advanced Feature Pack" that
includes enterprise functionality:

        --  VaultTracker(TM) provides policy management for offsite
            tape media management,

        --  Data Encryption protects customer data from network
            snooping and server break-in,

        --  Client Migration eases administration in dynamic changing
            IT environments,

        --  Archive Check verifies the logical backup integrity to
            ensure that the data on tape can be accessed and read so
            data stays highly available,

        --  GridStor technology for failover, load balancing and
            storage optimization of disk and tape based data
            protection, migration and archiving solutions,

        --  QNet Standard Edition assesses an application's storage
            consumption for IT management by correlating how an
            application and changing data management policies impact
            the total storage environment, all in one consolidated
            view.

"Once again, CommVault has extended its technical leadership by delivering an integrated suite to provide a flexible range of data protection and retention solutions," said Bob Hammer, chairman and CEO of CommVault Systems. "Since its release last year, QiNetix has gone beyond traditional backup and recovery to protect data--it manages data throughout its lifecycle to maximize availability and optimize use of storage resources. This release advances these benefits to new levels to help our customers streamline operations, reduce costs and protect business data, their most valuable corporate asset."

Pricing and Availability

QiNetix Version 5.0 software components are targeted for general availability in early November 2003. Component pricing starts at $795.

Industry leaders offering perspective on CommVault's QiNetix 5.0 include:

Industry Analysts:

Enterprise Storage Group

"CommVault has continued to listen to its customer base and look just far enough into the future to provide the right combination of robust technology for today's data protection issues, as well as help IT think about what is coming down the road," said Steve Kenniston of the Enterprise Storage Group. "The future of IT is Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), which is made up of people, process and technology. CommVault is adding the right features to its products to help IT move in this direction, while still focusing on core issues within their data center, such as protecting information."

Evaluator Group

"I'm impressed with CommVault's commitment to provide more a complete storage management solution," said Randy Kerns, partner, Evaluator Group. "It's interesting to see how the enhanced Galaxy product, combined with QiNetix, provides a higher level of storage management functionality. CommVault is working towards a complete SRM with ILM. Such a solution is necessary for long term success in the storage management software market."

Data Mobility Group

"IT is just getting their arms around the compliance issue," said John Webster, founder of Data Mobility Group LLC, in Nashua, N.H. "The federal government wants all public companies to archive any transaction related to financial statements, including e-mail. They have to provide them, often within 48 hours. If you need to comply, you have to look at tools like this."

Taneja Group

"With QiNetix 5.0, CommVault continues to advance its market position from backup and restore vendor into a broader storage resource management leader," said Arun Taneja, founder, Taneja Group. "CommVault's new solutions for data archiving and migration are engineered with a solid understanding of the challenges enterprise IT teams are facing as they build solutions for information lifecycle management. This is a company -- and a set of products -- to watch closely."

Storage and Data Management Vendors:

ADIC

"Every enterprise IT department wants to ensure high-performance data protection while optimizing use of their storage infrastructure," said Scott Roza, vice president of North American storage products, ADIC. "Using CommVault's QiNetix 5.0 and ADIC's integrated disk and tape backup restore solutions, customers can achieve faster backup and recovery, reduced total cost of ownership, and, most importantly, confidence in the long-term security and safety of their business data."

EMC Corporation

"The real cost of storage deployment has to be measured not just by acquisition costs, but also by ongoing value delivered and manageability," said Don Swatik, vice president of EMC's Global Solutions Group. "As a valued EMC partner, CommVault has leveraged the new functionality of QiNetix 5.0 in combination with EMC networked storage technologies to enable IT departments to reap enhanced return on investment through integration of advanced data management and connectivity for better performance, higher reliability, and greater ease of use."

EqualLogic

"CommVault's QiNetix strategy substantially decreases storage costs while reducing the complexity of creating a centrally managed backup/recovery, archiving and data migration environment," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing at EqualLogic Inc. "Together, QiNetix 5.0 and PeerStorage arrays offer a full-featured, end-to-end iSCSI storage solution that delivers increased staff productivity and maximum data availability at a significantly lower total cost of ownership."

Hitachi Data Systems

"By integrating HDS replication products with CommVault's QiNetix, customers can implement tailored data protection and data movement strategies," said Scott Genereux, vice president of Global Marketing & Business Development, Hitachi Data Systems, "Instead of adapting their processes to fit a vendors solution, customers can now adapt the technologies to suit their specific needs."

Intransa

"QiNetix version 5.0 software and the Intransa IP5000 Storage System will provide a robust, highly-intuitive and cost effective SAN solution that offers the best in integrated backup, recovery and replication for all customers," said Peter Wang, CTO at Intransa.

LeftHand

"We're integrating our LeftHand IP SAN with QiNetix to enable joint customers to fully protect their data and make intelligent, preventive decisions," said Tom Major, vice president of marketing, LeftHand Networks. "We endorse CommVault's QiNetix strategy and are pleased to bring the combined benefits of QiNetix and the LeftHand SAN to the market."

Managed Storage International

"Managed Storage International is excited about CommVault's QiNetix 5.0 release because it allows us to expand our service capabilities with encryption and image backup," said Walter Hinton, chief technology officer of Managed Storage International. "Also, the ability to perform multiplexing, assures that we can drive the fastest new tape technology at its peak performance."

Microsoft

"CommVault's 5.0 enhancements and rapid development showcase Windows as the right foundation for building new technologies to manage data in the heterogeneous enterprise and substantially decrease storage costs and complexities," said Chris Phillips, general manager of the Enterprise Storage Division at Microsoft. "We have worked closely with CommVault to provide our mutual customers with a storage solution that delivers maximum data availability and reduced total cost of ownership."

Network Appliance

"We look forward to continuing our integration efforts with CommVault for our NearStore and SnapVault solutions with QiNetix version 5.0," said Suresh Vasudevan, senior director of software product marketing, Network Appliance. "With QiNetix 5.0, Network Appliance customers will be able to further maximize their storage investment while having full access to data, when and where they need it."

Sistina

"Meeting explosive demand for storage while controlling costs can be done. CommVault QiNetix dynamically shares backup/recovery, data migration and availability resources to substantially decrease storage costs and complexities," said Joaquin Ruiz, Sistina's vice president of marketing and product management. "Together, we have integrated Sistina GFS with CommVault's QiNetix Galaxy software to deliver the Essentials Edition Sistina Scaled offering so that customers can exceed storage demands with an end-to-end solution - one that delivers superior ROI, better use of storage resources, higher staff productivity, maximum data availability and reduced Total Cost of Ownership."

StoneFly

"Leveraging storage to protect data is one of the greatest benefits of CommVault QiNetix version 5.0," said Bob Preston, vice president of marketing, StoneFly Networks. "With QiNetix in an IP SAN environment, customers can move data depending on which stage of its lifecycle it's in-assuring that it receives maximum protection and leverages the most appropriate storage device, all along the way."

StorageTek

Tim Steadman, StorageTek director, Corporate Alliances, noted, "QiNetix 5.0 helps customers protect their data through every stage in its lifetime. This is consistent with StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management(TM) strategy, which enables customers to better cope with the changing value of data over time. With QiNetix, customers can distill all storage-related items into objects and centrally manage them with policies to make better decisions in less time."

About CommVault Systems, Inc.

CommVault Systems, Inc. provides unified enterprise data management solutions to ensure high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. The CommVault QiNetix platform, based on CommVault's Common Technology Engine, provides the ultimate data protection: managing data throughout its lifecycle via integrated backup/recovery, migration, archiving, replication and storage management. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at www.commvault.com or by calling [phone]. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States.