M4 Data and CommVault Systems Announce Certification of MagFile Tape Libraries With CommVault's Galaxy Enterprise 2000 Storage Management Software.Business/Technology Editors LONDON & OCEANPORT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 M4 Data, a leading designer and manufacturer of tape drives and tape libraries, and CommVault Systems CommVault Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CVLT) is a United States based company specializing in data and storage management software. Created in 1988 as a development group in AT&T's Bell Labs, the group produced AT&T's in-house backup software, Automatic Backup, Archive and Recovery Inc.(R), an industry-leading provider of enterprise data and storage management software solutions, today announced that M4 Data's MagFile family of tape libraries are now fully supported and certified See certification. with CommVault's next-generation Galaxy Enterprise 2000 software. This certification allows M4 Data customers to take advantage of the CommVault Galaxy software's advanced functionality, ease-of-use and unified single management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. across the complete range of MagFile tape libraries. "CommVault is clearly an industry leader in the data storage software market," said David Huntingdon, Sales and Marketing Director, M4 Data. "Announcing the certification of MagFile with CommVault's Galaxy Enterprise 2000 software will provide our mutual customers with advanced management capabilities that provide a reliable and scalable storage environment." "CommVault's support for M4 Data's highly scalable MagFile family of tape libraries demonstrates our continued commitment to providing customers with enterprise-class data protection and availability that effectively scales to meet their needs," said Paul Liggett, UK and Ireland country manager, CommVault Systems. "We are pleased to be working with companies like M4 Data to provide superior data reliability and lower storage administration costs -- at the same time." MagFile is the only tape library currently on the market providing true incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. scalability, which allows the library to expand by sliding in modules, whilst maintaining optimum performance, resilience resilience (r  ·zilˑ·yens),n and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. . CommVault's Galaxy Enterprise 2000 product is the only fully integrated enterprise storage management solution built from the ground up on Microsoft's Windows platform and designed specifically for managing large heterogeneous environments Using hardware and system software from different vendors. Organizations often use computers, operating systems and databases from a variety of vendors. Contrast with homogeneous environment. from a Windows console. By presenting a logical interface for viewing and managing stored information, the CommVault Galaxy solution eliminates many of the management difficulties that traditional backup products encounter due to their physical device orientation. This approach is especially important as increasing numbers of today's data-intensive enterprises move from server-centric to data-centric solutions, such as Network Attached Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) and Storage Area Networks (SAN). About CommVault Systems CommVault Systems, Inc. (R) is a worldwide leader in providing enterprise-wide storage management solutions for client/server environments A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. . The company's singular focus is creating and implementing fast, reliable, and easy-to-use storage management solutions to meet customer's data management requirements. The company's software products seamlessly ensure the reliable, rapid restoration of files, business-critical applications, and today's most popular databases. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at www.commvault.com. About M4 Data: M4 Data provides data storage solutions to the computer community. Its primary goal is to provide customers with the most cost-effective, high performance data storage solutions based on innovative design and advanced technology, customer-focused quality manufacturing, and backed by a responsive world-wide support network. M4 Data has over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. experience in developing and manufacturing tape drives and automation products for the midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually and mainframe data storage market to meet the needs of some of the most demanding customers in the world. With over 40,000 units field installed, M4 Data has the experience to effectively address all mainframe data interchange and high-speed backup requirements, no matter how demanding the application, providing connection to virtually any host platform by virtue of its multiple interfaces. M4 Data also provides comprehensive support on its products internationally through various offices and agents. The Company's fully qualified ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 production facilities assure the finest quality standards. M4 Data's corporate headquarters and Research and Development facilities are located in Wells, Somerset, UK. The manufacturing facility is located in Yateley, UK. The Company received the Queen's Award for Export in 1999 and was a Finalist in 2 categories at the 1999 Information Management Awards. MagBak, MagStak and MagFile are all registered trademarks of M4 Data. CommVault, CommVault Systems, CommVault Galaxy, CommServe StorageManager, MediaAgent, iDataAgent, CommCell and the CommVault logo are trademarks and may be registered trademarks in some jurisdictions of CommVault Systems, Inc. |
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