COMMVAULT and Nutanix today announced Commvault integration and support of the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor, including Commvault IntelliSnap snapshot management capabilities to simplify protection and recovery for data and virtual machi-nes running on Nutanix. These enhancements mark the latest step in this partnership, enabling orga-nizations to easily increase predictability, scalability and efficiency when deploying infrastr-ucture in a virtualized environment while leverag-ing the flexibility to deliver customer-fit SLAs for recovery and easy data access from the Commvau-lt Data Platform. Today, organizations are looking for datacenter in-frastructure for tier applications that can make infrastructure truly invisible, so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business.There is also a growing need for modern data protection that aligns to this newinfrastructure architecture with a single solutionfor all hyper visors that is easy,scalab-le and secure. "Two of the most important trends that IT professi-onals should be focused on are increasing their virtualization agility & assuring the reliability and recovery of that environment,"said JASON BUFFI-NGTON,SENIOR ANALYST at ESG."As organizations continue their virtualization journey,converged &hyper converged systems make huge amounts of sense.And since 'when modernizing production, you must modernize protection,'it also makes a lot of sense to integrate agile snapshots,application-aware data protection and mature data management technologies into joint solutions that assure customers that their new infrastructure is not only highly performant, but also highly reliable and recoverable." By adding support for the Nutanix Acropolis hyper-visor alongside capabilities already available for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V,Commvault will be the only data protection software platformthat provides hardware snapshot integration and agent less protection for all three hyper visors on Nutanix. This integration, leveraging Commvault IntelliSnap and Nutanix Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric snapshot functionality,provides customers with the ability to optimize costs by seamlessly leveraging the most appropriate hyper visor, reducing risk and effort in scalable and high-performance solutions. "Building on our industry-leading work with virtua-lized environments and snapshots, Commvault is uniquely positioned to bring enhanced data protection and recovery to hyper converged customers using Nutanix Acropolis,"said BRIAN ALLISON, VPof WORLDWIDE ALLIANCES, COMMVAULT."This representsa significant milestone in our commitment to provi-ding the holistic data management solutions organ-izations are demanding and is indicative of the close engineering relationship between Commvault and Nutanix." With integration into Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor,Commvault adds to its pre-existing portfolio of managing and protecting hypervisors including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V. "Commvault has been an early and strong supporter of the Acropolis hypervisor since its launch," said VENUGOPAL PAI,VICE PRESIDENT of STRATEGIC ALLIANCES and BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, NUTANIX. "IT organizations need holistic data protection and management for their critical enterprise applications. We see Commvault as an ideal partner to provide these important capabilities. Today, Nutanix and Commvault are addressing a critical need in the datacenter."