Commvault HyperScale Edge & Flex for cyber resilience

Commvault, a pioneering provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, has now announced two powerful additions to its HyperScale portfolio: HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex.

As modern enterprises generate more data from remote offices and edge locations, these environments have become lucrative and vulnerable targets for cyberattacks.

Exploitation of edge devices

To help clients address this challenge and improve their resilience, Commvault has developed HyperScale Edge

The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report reveals a startling trend: breaches from the exploitation of edge devices and VPNs surged to 22%, an eightfold increase from the previous year.  

To help customers address this challenge and improve their resilience, Commvault has developed HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex.

Commvault’s HyperScale X solution

Complementing Commvault’s HyperScale X solution, which serves as its flagship scale-out integrated appliance, these new on-premises offerings provide customers with exceptional flexibility, performance, and resilience for protecting workloads running in various environments. 

Like HyperScale X, both HyperScale Edge and Flex models are delivered as a software image that can easily be installed on validated hardware.

Modern retailers

“No two enterprises are the same. Modern retailers often manage mission-critical data across dozens of sites, while large organisations may want to leverage existing storage investments. But regardless of infrastructure, every enterprise is striving for one thing: cyber resilience,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault.

Pranay Ahlawat adds, “With the launch of HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex, we’re delivering the best of both worlds — flexibility and choice, combined with industry-pioneering cyber resilience.” 

Data protection and recovery

HyperScale Edge enables localised data protection and recovery for remote sites, edge locations

HyperScale Edge enables localised data protection and recovery for remote sites, edge locations, and small and medium-sized businesses where space and IT resources are limited. 

This could include retail stores, branch offices, and distribution centres. Customers can utilise this offering in combination with validated hardware from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.  

Requirements of modern applications and AI/ML workloads

For large, data-intensive, and AI workloads, such as those generated by technology, telecom, and healthcare industries, HyperScale Flex delivers high-performance backup and recovery with a flexible architecture that connects to external flash storage pools. 

Supporting certified storage offerings from Pure Storage, VAST Data, and in the near future, HPE, it enables organisations to meet the extreme performance demands and multi-petabyte capacity requirements of modern applications and AI/ML workloads.  

Supporting quotes 

• “Commvault's HyperScale Edge was crucial in creating a cost-effective data management and cyber resilience solution across our many data centres,” said Lee Lindstrom, Principal Infrastructure Architect, Fortune Brands, adding “With Commvault’s HyperScale Edge, we were able to implement a cost-effective, repeatable, and easily deployable solution. The built-in resiliency and advanced ransomware protection have given us the peace of mind that our critical data is always protected and recoverable.” 
• “As cyber threats increase in sophistication and the pace of business operations accelerate, current data protection approaches and architectures are not adequate,” said Jim O'Dorisio, Senior Vice President and GM for Storage, HPE, adding “In the coming quarters, Commvault HyperScale Flex with HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 and our full-stack infrastructure will deliver a truly differentiated, holistic approach to cyber resilience and data protection that meets the extraordinary speed, scale and simplicity required by modern enterprises.” 
• “An all-flash architecture with the Pure Storage platform combined with Commvault HyperScale software will provide a massively scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective platform for protecting petabyte-scale data, giving organisations the confidence to manage and secure their largest and most critical data assets from a single centralised plane,” said Maciej Kranz, General Manager, Enterprise, Pure Storage. 
• George Axberg, Vice President, Data Protection, VAST Data said, “The performance demands of modern AI and data-intensive workloads require a new approach to data architecture. By combining the high-throughput and low-latency infrastructure of the VAST AI Operating System with Commvault's HyperScale Flex, we are delivering a solution that can keep pace with these critical applications. Customers will be able to protect massive datasets at unprecedented speed, minimising application impact and accelerating recovery when it matters most.” 

Availability and pricing 

Commvault HyperScale Edge is generally available now. The software is available via a subscription model with pricing per node/per month or as a perpetual licence plus support costs. Customers are responsible for purchasing an approved server based on the HyperScale Reference Architecture. 

Commvault HyperScale Flex is available now for early adopter customers, who can contact Commvault Sales to request access to the EA program. Pricing is configured based on the specific server and storage options selected for the solution.