The Power of Commvault HyperScale Flex and Pure Storage FlashBlade

In today’s threat landscape, legacy backup solutions are failing. They are too slow, too complex, and too vulnerable. For critical industries like finance, healthcare, and energy, where data is mission critical, a failed recovery is not an option. Malicious actors know this, and they are increasingly targeting backup platforms themselves, aiming to cripple an organization’s last line of defense.

It’s time for a new approach. That’s why Commvault and Pure Storage have joined forces to deliver a solution that fundamentally changes the data protection game. The integration of Commvault HyperScale Flex with Pure Storage^® FlashBlade^® isn’t just another partnership; it’s a co-engineered platform where the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts, delivering exponential gains in security, performance, and simplicity.

A Fortress of Security through Integrated Defense

True cyber resilience requires protecting the entire backup infrastructure—the software, the compute, and the storage. Siloed security measures leave gaps for attackers to exploit. Our joint solution creates a unified, multi-layered security architecture:

• The secure foundation: The solution starts with Commvault HyperScale Flex software, installed on a hardened, scale-out compute platform. It provides a secure, isolated home for the entire Commvault software stack, protecting critical backup components, catalogs, and job definitions from the production environment and potential threats.
• FlashBlade, the immutable vault: The HyperScale Flex-hardened solution provides an inherently secure and immutable storage tier for your backup data utilizing native Object Lock SafeMode™.
• Pure Storage SafeMode Snapshots: These immutable snapshots help ensure that once your data is backed up, it cannot be modified, encrypted, or deleted by a ransomware attack.

The exponential result: Together, this creates a formidable defense-in-depth strategy. You have a secure, hardened compute layer protecting your backup operations, writing to a physically separate, high-performance, and immutable storage vault. This integration of a secure control plane with a secure data plane drastically reduces the attack surface and helps to ensure you always have a clean, uncompromised copy of your data ready for recovery.

Recovery at the Speed of Business

In the event of an attack, speed is everything. Legacy, disk-based backup systems simply cannot deliver the performance needed to restore critical systems at scale and meet aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs).

• The performance engine: HyperScale Flex features a scale-out compute architecture. As your performance needs grow, you simply add more compute nodes, so that the brains of the backup operation are never the bottleneck.
• The all-flash accelerator: FlashBlade is an all-flash, massively parallel platform built for unstructured data, delivering blazing-fast read and write performance. This is crucial for both ingesting large backup sets quickly and, more importantly, restoring them at speeds that legacy disk systems can’t touch.

The exponential result: The combination eliminates bottlenecks across the entire data path. Scale-out compute allows for the software to process data at maximum speed, while the all-flash storage tier can write and serve that data instantly. The result is a dramatic reduction in both backup and recovery windows, enabling you to restore critical enterprise applications and data in minutes instead of days, minimizing the business impact of an outage.

Radical Simplicity with Unified Management and Support

Complexity is the enemy of resilience. Juggling multiple vendors for compute, storage, and software creates operational friction and finger-pointing during a crisis. This joint solution was designed to solve that by providing:

• Flexible architecture: HyperScale Flex offers the power of a flexible, modular architecture, allowing you to choose validated hardware that aligns with your enterprise standards.
• An appliance-like experience: Through deep integration, you gain a simplified, appliance-like operational experience. The entire solution—including FlashBlade capacity—is managed directly from the single, intuitive Commvault Command Center UI.

The exponential result: This unified approach is backed by an industry-leading support model. Commvault provides first-call, single-vendor support for the entire solution. No more wasted time trying to determine if an issue is with the software, compute, or storage. One call is all it takes to get comprehensive support, providing the accountability and peace of mind that enterprise customers have been asking for.

Beyond Backup, toward True Resilience

For organizations where recovery is a mission-critical capability, a simple backup solution is no longer enough. You need a strategic layer of cyber resilience. The Commvault HyperScale Flex with Pure Storage solution delivers on this promise, offering an integrated, secure, and high-performance platform that is ready for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

With this architecture, you’re not just buying best-of-breed components; you’re investing in a superior, unified outcome.

To learn more about how this powerful solution can transform your cyber resilience strategy, contact Pure Storage today.