Selected from a record number of nominations and a list of ten finalists in the backup and disaster recovery software category, CommVault (NASDAQ:CVLT) today announced that the CommVault Simpana Software Suite has received the gold award in the 2007 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Product of the Year awards. Adding to CommVault's growing list of product accolades, this honor further reinforces the technical superiority and market leadership of the CommVault Simpana 7.0 Software Suite with its uniquely singular approach to data and information management. The Simpana Software suite has been designed from the ground up to integrate seamlessly and deliver a common platform for backup, recovery, replication and archive operations, and this latest award builds on CommVault's industry momentum and the traction Simpana software has seen since its July 2007 launch.

"The market has arrived at a tipping point and demand for alternate solutions to the traditional data management approach is accelerating. Customers are no longer content to simply accept the complexity and cost of data management," said David West, CommVault's vice president of marketing and business development. "Recognizing this mind shift, CommVault is committed to solving the data management problems that other vendors have deemed impossible. As such, we are thrilled to be recognized with this award as the industry leader in the backup and disaster recovery software category. Not only is this win testament to the leadership and quality of the CommVault Simpana product suite, but it also echoes the sentiments we hear from customers everyday, that CommVault is the first choice in data protection and management software."

Selected from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded and shipped between October 27, 2006 and October 27, 2007, TechTarget received a record number of nominations this year, making it more difficult than ever to sort and rate the products. Judges included editorial staff from Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com, and a panel of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants, who chose winners based on qualifications including innovation, performance, ease of integration, ease of use, functionality and value. According to searchstorage.com, "praise for the Simpana package has been nearly universal," as one judge noted that Simpana " ... is the best offering on the market for unified data protection and data management."

CommVault Simpana software folds backup, archive, replication (including CDP), search and reporting into a single data management software application. CommVault Simpana 7.0 software also includes a new search capability that offers full content indexing for hundreds of content types, and search across online, backup and archive storage tiers. With its Web-based interface, the search facility is straightforward enough that business, legal or compliance staff members can use it. CommVault Simpana 7.0 also includes Single Instance Store (SIS) for de-duplicating backup and archive data, as well as enhanced encryption and security with improved integration with Active Directory and LDAP.

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