CommVault Helps IT Organizations Meet Business and Storage Service Levels.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2003

QNet Software Allows Executives to Make Service Level Decisions;

Monitors Services Against Business Level Benchmarks So IT Can Match

Cost with Delivery

CommVault(R) Systems Inc., a leading provider of unified enterprise data management solutions, today announced that its QiNetix(TM) platform can help IT meet storage and data management service levels. QNet(TM) software, part of the integrated CommVault QiNetix software suite, allows executives to make at-a-glance decisions to adjust data and storage management services to comply with committed service levels.

Based on user-defined data management and storage benchmarks, such as storage resource utilization and successful delivery of data protection, migration, archiving and replication services, QNet software monitors the environment, displays status and allows IT to better match the cost of providing critical IT services with its business needs. Via Web-based GUI or reports, IT executives can easily map data center or global service delivery cost to business objectives ensuring the correct data and application availability at the lowest possible cost.

Through unified and consolidated storage resource information, QNet software helps control over-provisioning, improves storage utilization and streamlines data lifecycle management operations. Besides reporting on primary and secondary storage, backup, recovery, migration, archiving and replication service performance, the QNet solution links these data management services to resource consumption and cost. With this knowledge, IT organizations can fine-tune services to leverage resources and keep costs within allocated budget. As a result, IT can re-allocate secondary storage usage, create/adjust the data retention lifecycle, initiate IT best practices or put precautions in place to meet compliance requirements. With these capabilities, QNet software helps IT executives meet service levels to ensure that data is available and protected in complex storage networks.

"In today's complicated IT environment, executives are looking for ways to strictly comply with stated service levels while keeping their costs low," said Steve Kenniston, technology analyst, Enterprise Storage Group. "SLAs (service level agreements) have been widely-defined with no correlation of costs to service levels. Going forward, successful solutions need to be granular enough to match storage costs to service levels. The result will fully define resources, the services they support and the service cost to the organization."

"In order for IT organizations to cost-effectively deliver data management and storage service levels, customers rely on software that not only delivers robust functionality but also can evolve with changing business needs," said Bob Hammer, chairman and CEO, CommVault. "With QNet software, the ability to match business needs to service levels is just one of the benefits that customers can expect--another way that CommVault software helps our customers exceed their goals."

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.

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