CommVault Systems

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CommVault Systems Inc.
Type	Public
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Oceanport, New Jersey
Industry	storage management software
Website	www.commvault.com

CommVault Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CVLT) is a United States based company specializing in data and storage management software.

[edit] Products

CommVault produces the Simpana software suite, a modular product comprising:

Simpana Backup and Recovery -- backup software and recovery
QuickRecovery -- snapshot management
Continuous Data Replicator -- file-based replication
DataArchiver -- hierarchical storage management
DataArchiver Compliance -- compliance
Storage Manager – system resource management and storage reporting
CommNet ServiceManager -- management and reporting
SIS -- Single Instance Store

CommVault competes directly with other companies in this field, including Symantec/Veritas Software and their Backup Exec and NetBackup products, EMC's Legato product, Computer Associates Arcserve, Hewlett-Packard OpenView Storage Data Protector, Syncsort Backup Express, and others.

[edit] History

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 Software. AT&T CommVault was spun off with Lucent in 1996 and later that year went private with a management buyout. Their current headquarters are located in Oceanport, New Jersey. The company went public in September 2006.