* CommVault announces active migration for Novell
In going through the mountain of press releases that hit my inbox last week, I was pleased to see one entitled “CommVault Announces Active Migration of Data for Novell NetWare Server Systems.” It’s so rare these days to see NetWare in the headline for anything!
CommVault entered the backup and archive scene six years ago with a product called “CommVault Galaxy Enterprise 2000.” Sort of creates images of a bright, shiny new car with a sleek interplanetary spaceship, doesn’t it? A couple of years later the product’s name was changed to QiNetix, a more fitting moniker for what’s described as a “platform that provides Unified Data Management.”
Unified Data Management is the company’s trademarked phrase for the suite of products that provide integrated backup, recovery and active migration of Novell NetWare data as well as object-level protection for eDirectory objects, including users and trees. But, of course, in the immortal words of Billy Mays, “that’s not all!”
The CommVault QiNetix platform, based on CommVault’s Common Technology Engine, integrates backup and recovery, snapshot management and recovery, remote replication, active data migration and archiving, e-mail compliance, enterprise service-level management and reporting and storage resource management software solutions. This unified approach is designed to allow you to add and integrate QiNetix components, at a fraction of the time, effort and money required by separate point products. Among the supported platforms are:
* Apple MacOS X
* DB2
* EMC Celerra
* EMC SnapView
* Informix
* Linux
* Lotus Notes/Domino (Windows)
* Lotus Notes (UNIX)
* Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003
* Microsoft Exchange 5.5
* Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Services 2003
* Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001
* Microsoft SQL Server
* Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
* Microsoft Windows 2000
* Microsoft Windows NT4
* Network Appliance
* Novell GroupWise
* Novell NetWare
* Oracle
* SAP R/3
* Unix
Additionally, CommVault enables users to manage and protect data on Open Enterprise Server (OES), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES9) and Novell Storage Services (NSS) volumes and properties on OES and SLES9 systems. CommVault believes they have a better way of ensuring that data migrated from NetWare to OES/SLES servers is well protected, emphasizing three points:
1. The OES migration path enables NetWare users to maintain compliance with data retention regulations by simplifying the recovery of data from retired systems.
2. Users are able to retain NetWare attributes in their data files, easing migration to OES.
3. Active migration of NetWare data saves users money by reducing the amount of active data residing on primary storage, freeing primary storage to protect more critical data, increasing its useful life, and reducing the operational costs of protecting and recovering NetWare data.
QiNetix 6.1 can help protect your NetWare environment now, facilitate a migration to OES and beyond, and still protect the data for years to come. Visit CommVault for all the details.
