QiNetix from CommVault - Storage Networking

Computer Technology Review, Oct, 2002 by Nick Schultz

CommVault Systems has introduced QiNetix (kinet-iks), integrating data protection, availability, mi-gration, storage resource, and SAN management software solutions into a single, automated platform. Built on the CommVault common technology engine that moves, manages, and catalogues data, QiNetix offers ROI, better use of storage resources, higher staff productivity, maximum data availability, and reduced total cost of ownership.

QiNetix is based on the concept of a Qualitative Information Network (QiN): self-managing storage networks based on data-centric business and operational objectives that map to the treatment of application data. This dynamic approach keeps enterprise data highly available and accessible. With minimal human intervention, the QiNetix network will enforce corporate policies to protect data everywhere, use outcome predictions to optimize storage usage and organization, and unify data and storage management.

The QiNetix platform is based on five separate products: backup & recovery, data migration, quick recovery, SRM, and SAN management. Customers can run point solutions or add solutions to an installed CommVault point solution when they need them. The CommVault Common Technology Engine (CTE)--an underlying software foundation that gives CommVault software the ability to implement a metapolicy approach--makes this possible. The CTE translates Quality of Service directives into actionable policies at the software product/module level. The CTE utilizes a standards-transparent exchange of information via API interchange, CIM, and XML to allow users to plug the QiNetix software into their current virtualization and storage strategies. With meta-policies, users can use QiNetix's application-down approach to drive their storage devices and share intelligence about the storage infrastructure. "CommVault's QiNetix suite gives users the ability to set policies and let the software do the heavy lifting. The real breakthro ugh is the active integration of 'do-something' software modules; backup, migration and quick recovery, with discovery and reporting tools," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Storage Group. "The software decides where to put things based on the attributes associated with the data and application itself."

For more information, call (732) 870-400 or visit www.commvault.com.