CommVault has announced a new channel offering for Microsoft Exchange that packages CommVault Simpana 9 software modules for Backup and Recovery and Archive with reference architectures and resources aimed at assisting its worldwide channel partners in simplifying and speeding Exchange 2010 deployments and migrations.”We have had some software starter SKUs in the past, but this is a more complete bundle, the first comprehensive one,” said Jeff Dorr, senior product marketing manager, CommVault. “Its capabilities give

“Our goal is to simplify the solution for our customers and for our resellers, which will drive more value and will speed the implementation,” Dorr said.

It all boils down to capacity licensing.

“One of the key foundation items in the bundle is new capacity data management licensing,” Dorr said. “It’s a very systemized licensing approach we began to implement nine months back, that allows the end user to not have to track licensing use, just the front end terabytes. We let customers make as many copies and retain them as long as they want for no additional charge.”