CommVault Systems

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CommVault Systems Incorporated is a United States based company specializing in storage management software. Created in 1988 as a developement group in AT&T's Bell Labs, the group produced AT&T's in-house backup software, Automatic Backup, Archive and Recovery Software. AT&T CommVault was spun off with Lucent in 1996 and later that year went private with a management buyout. It went public (NASDAQ: CVLT) in September 2006.

Their current product line includes:

All products are controlled by a Microsoft Windows server and a Microsoft SQL Server based engine.

CommVault is a direct competitor to other companies in this field, including VERITAS Software and their Backup Exec and NetBackup products, EMC's Legato product, Computer Associates Arcserve, Hewlett-Packard OpenView Storage Data Protector, and others.

CommVault has created a line of storage products that use common technology to simplify integration, administration, and installation.

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