"Our biggest software release to date, CommVault's Simpana 8.0 software is built on a singular, unified platform," said Dave West, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, CommVault. "With the new features and backup and recovery performance enhancements in CommVault Simpana 8, Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 can help IT professionals reduce the amount of data under management, address the growing cost of storage management and simplify the operations of their storage environments."

Key enhancements of the Hitachi Data Protection Suite 8.0 include:

• Virtualized Environments Data Protection -- With virtual client support for VMware Infrastructure and Microsoft Hyper-V, the next generation platform includes multiple recovery options of virtualized environments. Auto discovery helps eliminate time consuming manual processes while ensuring users meet their protection and recovery service level agreements.