Commvault, Huawei expand partnership

Commvault and Huawei have recently announced plans to create a joint lab in Chengdu, China that will be used to develop data backup, recovery, archive and cloud solutions based on both companies’ technologies.

Commvault Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales Ron Miiller, and Huawei Technologies President for Storage Product Line Ruiqi Fan, were both present for the signing, which was held at ‘Huawei Connect.’

Under the agreement, the companies will commit personnel, software and hardware to the lab, which features both a testing and development centre and an executive briefing centre. In addition to ensuring full compatibility between the companies’ latest products, work at the lab will focus on incubating, testing and demonstrating cloud backup, data protection-as-a-Service and other innovative solutions that extend the companies’ ability to address their customers’ critical data protection and management needs.

“Over the last few years Commvault and Huawei joint backup solution has been very successful, and we are very pleased to announce the establishment of the joint lab,” said Ruigi Fan, President, Storage Production Line, Huawei. “This represents a significant milestone on the path towards even closer collaboration. This lab will function as a platform for our continuous joint innovation, incubating Data Protection as a Service and data management solutions.”