The IT Nerd

For anyone who’s ever lost their files, they know it’s no laughing matter. We all know we need to back up our files, but how many of us really do it? That’s why a few concerned users on reddit got together to create World Backup Day on March 31^st. The independent initiative was created to raise awareness about regular backups and data preservation.

Commvault today announced that its Commvault Data Platform has been selected by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to power its new HPE GreenLake Backup solution. Available today and managed through HPE’s outcome-based flexible IT consumption service, Commvault Software, which is pre-integrated on HPE servers, storage and networking technology, will provide customers with enterprise-class data protection and reliability covering the entire lifecycle of a backup environment.

Through its support of HPE GreenLake Backup, Commvault is simplifying the backup experience for customers by providing the required hardware, software, and services to meet evolving data protection and compliance challenges, tightening resource requirements and ever-expanding data growth. HPE GreenLake Backup is an on-premises deployment but priced like a cloud offering.

Commvault is a leading provider of data management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third-party influencers for its technology vision, innovation and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on-premises, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Visit www.commvault.com for more info. 

• The Importance of Data – More than 50 per cent of respondents say “better data collection and management” and “new tools to analyze increasingly sophisticated data” are essential to the future success of their business.
• Lack of Access to Data – More than 60 per cent of respondents, including IT executives and IT personnel, think they have access to less than half of their organizations’ data.
• Perception Gap – While 41 per cent of executives believe their organizations understand and are prepared for innovation (already a surprisingly low number) only 29 per cent of IT personnel believe the same. Further, over a third of IT personnel think executives would feel concerned, anxious or panicked if they knew more about their IT department, while another 16 per cent said they’d be unhappy, angry or disgusted.
• Lack of Bandwidth – Most IT executives prioritize day-to-day operations over innovation – and IT personnel follow their lead.
• Lack of Skillsets – More than 50 per cent of IT personnel believe their roles will change radically and they will need to acquire new skills to stay relevant.
• Lack of Technology – More than two-thirds of respondents believe their organizations are not prepared for migrating data to the cloud, protecting that data, or bringing together all data in the company.
• Lack of Commitment to Putting Vision into Practice – More than 40 per cent of companies don’t yet have a formal, proactive plan for digital transformation.