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Maximizing Performance and Scalability with Azure Elastic SAN and Commvault

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Nov 22, 2024

It's always exciting to see our partners at Commvault pushing the boundaries of innovation and consistently enhancing their services with each new release. In the following post, written by Commvault, you'll discover the advantages of their latest offering of backups for VMs that are backed by Elastic SAN and how to seamlessly integrate it with Commvault Cloud. Enjoy!

Partner post from our friends at Commvault 

Learn more about Elastic SAN here! 

Commvault is pleased to share that Microsoft Azure Elastic SAN support for Azure virtual machines (VMs) will be available in private preview following Microsoft Ignite 2024. This innovative offering allows Elastic SAN volumes to be attached to Azure VMs via iSCSI, providing enhanced flexibility and scalability for your cyber resilience and data protection storage needs. 

Michael Fasulo, Senior Director of Product Management at Commvault, expressed it best: “Throughout our 27+ years of partnership with Microsoft, our goal has always been to provide the broadest workload coverage and native Azure integration, providing unmatched scalability and cost effectiveness while delivering true continuous business. Our support for Elastic SAN amplifies our strong joint value to customers, embracing today's cloud first reality. 

Benefits of the New Commvault Cloud Feature 

Azure Elastic SAN offers a powerful and flexible storage solution that can help you optimize your workloads and achieve your business goals. With its enhanced performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, Elastic SAN is the ideal choice for demanding applications.  

Commvault Cloud’s support for Azure Elastic SAN offers significant advantages for organizations seeking comprehensive cyber resilience solutions. Commvault's integration with Azure Elastic SAN simplifies backup and recovery processes, while our robust cyber resilience and data protection capabilities provide peace of mind and minimize the risk of data loss.  

Why Elastic SAN Adoption is Growing 

Organizations are increasingly adopting Elastic SAN due to its enhanced performance, scalability, and cost effectiveness.  With the surge of AI data and the need to effectively protect these large volumes of data, this new Commvault Cloud functionality helps organizations securely and cost effectively solve the need to effectively protect and secure these mission critical workloads.  Commvault Cloud’s enhanced coverage of Elastic SAN will ensure these workloads are cyber resilient and recoverable from cyber-attacks: 

  • High-Performance Computing (HPC): Deliver demanding HPC applications with exceptional performance. 
  • Large scale databases: Accelerate database operations and improve query response times. 
  • Big data analytics: Process and analyze large datasets efficiently. 
  • Content Delivery Networks (CDNs): Streamline content delivery and improve the user experience. 

Learn more 

For a demo and to learn more about Commvault Cloud’s enhanced support of Azure Elastic SAN, please visit Commvault Cloud for Microsoft Azure | Commvault. To learn more about Azure Elastic SAN, visit Azure Elastic SAN documentation | Microsoft Learn or reach out to AzElasticSAN-Ex@microsoft.com. 

Updated Nov 22, 2024
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