Commvault, a global leader in data protection, announced recently at their GO conference its entrance in the SaaS backup market with Metallic. We had the opportunity to meet Commvault's team last week for the 33rd IT Press Tour to learn more about Metallic.
Commvault finally decided to jump into that segment already entered by some other established players or new comers. With this new brand, the company has chosen to change the image of an "old" player sometimes impacting negatively Commvault. Interesting the product is sold via partners like Commvault's classic product line. The product offers three iterations:- Core edition supporting VM, file servers and SQL databases priced at $200/TB/mo. and annual subscription reduced to $180/TB without storage space,
- Office 365 edition with support of SharePoint, Exchange and One Drive charged at $4/user/mo. and annual subscription dropped to $3.5/user/mo storage included.
- and Endpoint edition for laptop and desktop at $9.25/user/mo and $8.33/user/mo. for annual subscriptions storage included.
Like the SaaS philosophy and other products, things have to simple for the subscription and configuration to start in less than 15 minutes. You can even try the product for 45 days promoting a try and buy model. The GUI is very intuitive comprehensive to control everything you need to protect a wide range of solution for a first edition. We expect Commvault to iterate rapidly on it with addition of other SaaS application for instance.
The product is sold via 2 distributors Arrow and Ingram Micro plus a selection of VARs and of course the product supports Azure and AWS and should arrive on their marketplace in 2020.
Great solution on the paper and we're pretty sure the adoption will be there as Commvault is a reference in the backup world. Now we'll watch carefully this ecosystem as many players will land soon and competition is already tough.
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