CommVault Wins Chinese Green Award

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

October 27, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Software developer CommVault (www.commvault.com) today announced that its infrastructure management software Simpana has been named the winner of the “2008 Green Storage Solutions Excellence Awards” by China Computerworld (www.ccw.com.cn) at the “Green Data Center Conference” in Beijing.

According to CommVault’s Monday announcement, the country’s largest IT publication, China Computerworld thoroughly analysed CommVault and awarded it one of its annual Chinese IT awards, which feature companies in various categories. This category specifically “underscoring the growing need for more environmentally-friendly storage solutions in the Chinese market,” according to CommVault’s announcement.

Simpana is software suite with application modules for data protection, archive, replication, resource management and search. The company said the software helps reduce infrastructure costs by optimizing data management processes, decreasing or postponing equipment purchase needs, reducing energy needs and improving data management efficiency. (more…)

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CommVault Joins The Green Grid

By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

August 25, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data management software and service provider CommVault (commvault.com) has joined The Green Grid (thegreengrid.org), a global organization committed to improve data center and business computing energy efficiency.

Open to IT professionals with an interest in addressing global energy consumption issues, The Green Grid was created in early 2007 to develop industry-wide standards, measuring methods, processes and new technologies to improve the energy efficiency of data center and business computing.

According to the announcement from New Jersey-based CommVault, its Simpana 7.0 software suite “helps customers implement sustainable ‘Green’ data center strategies,” demonstrating CommVault’s commitment to developing more energy efficient data centers. Simpana includes application modules for Data Protection, Archiving, Replication, Resource Management and Searching capabilities. (more…)

Tags: CommVault, energy efficiency, The Green Grid