Cloud technologies are enabling many new and fascinating ways to store, use and even reuse secondary data. In the past, the data was “locked” onto tape or server arrays, making it difficult to catalog, find and access. With the advent of cloud, that is no longer the case; cloud-based secondary storage is more agile, opening doors to new ways to use stored data. There are many ways that cloud technology can facilitate access to secondary storage; some people call it copy data management or hyperconverged for secondary storage.

“But it’s essentially … people unlocking the value of that data [from] where it used to be captured, siloed, untouchable,” said Patrick Osborne (pictured), vice president and general manager of big data and secondary storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. “But now you’ve unlocked a number of possibilities for this data, and it’s multi-use … it’s the new currency.”

Osborne spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), principal at The CTO Advisor, during the Commvault GO 2018 event in Nashville, Tennessee. They discussed how HPE and Commvault Systems Inc. work together to provide greater access and agility to secondary data . (* Disclosure below.)

Agile data is useful data

Much like how secondary storage was difficult to access, it was seen as one of the less exciting aspects of technology. Osborne observed that this perception is changing, as cloud is providing new and exciting data-centric capabilities. What HPE seeks, as a technology company, is to provide a complete solution, vertically oriented, that includes compute networking, storage, secondary storage, cloud, and a very vibrant ecosystem.

“So we’ve been working … with our customers and in the partner ecosystem with Commvault for a number of years, and now we’ve formalized that and codified it with a couple [of] technology announcements,” Osborne stated.

HPE recently worked with Commvault to deliver support for its deduplication algorithms, enabling the ability to dedupe anywhere, whether it is within or outside of the data center. It helps out high-speed performance for backup so that clients can meet aggressive service-level agreements, according to Osborne.

Additionally, Commvault has been integrated with HPE’s Cloud Bank, increasing the ability to store archived backup data for long periods in either Azure or AWS, essentially using Commvault as the workflow and the catalog, which allows HPE to plug into the ability to federate primary or secondary in the cloud.

“[It’s] a pretty powerful integration for customers who might already have HPE, [who] might already have Commvault, so it definitely brings a lot of value into that,” Osborne concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Commvault GO 2018. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Commvault GO event. Neither Commvault Systems Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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