Commvault Systems announced plans to acquire Clumio, a startup that helps companies back up the data they keep in the public cloud. Financial terms were not disclosed. Commvault stated that the acquisition price is “not material” and will be financed with cash on hand and expected to be completed by next month.
Commvault and Clumio compete in the data protection market. Commvault sells software that helps enterprises backup platform. Clumio has a narrower focus: It provides a backup platform geared mainly toward Amazon Web Services environments.
Clumio’s Features
- More time is needed to restore larger dataset after an outage. Clumio’s platform provides a capability called S3 Direct Access to speed up the process for AWS customers. The feature allows applications to use a read-only backup copy of a dataset while the main version is being recovered, which helps reduce downtime.
- Clumio enables to restore only specific files rather than an entire storage repository. That makes it simpler to address small-scale data loss incidents, such as situations where a worker accidentally deletes a few documents.
- Clumio’s platform can be used to protect data in AWS’ object and block storage services. The software also supports several of the cloud giant’s managed databases along with SQL databases that customers deploy in Amazon EC2 instances.
- For Microsoft 365 platform, Clumio’s platform creates immutable, or undeletable, backups that can’t be modified by hackers. Additionally, Clumio provides a testing tool for checking the reliability of companies’ Microsoft 365 data recovery workflows.
The acquisition will enhance Commvault’s data protection portfolio, which already includes features for AWS and Microsoft 365 environments. Commvault previously acquired Boston-based Appranix, earlier this year which operates a platform in which companies can keep backup copies of their off-premises data.
