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14 July 2009:CommVault Enhance PartnerAdvantage Channel Program with Online Accreditation & Training Print E-mail

OCEANPORT, NJ - July 14, 2009 - CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) continues to expand its North American PartnerAdvantage program with the addition of new online sales and technical accreditation capabilities. The enhancements reinforce the company's ongoing commitment to building and maintaining a robust channel by continually investing in cost-effective yet powerful tools and solutions that help channel partners drive revenue from CommVault® Simpana® 8 software. More than 300 channel partners, including value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators, now have access to self-paced, multi-media instructional modules, a downloadable MP3 podcast and supporting documents designed to broaden their CommVault product knowledge, as well as identify and close business at an accelerated pace.

CommVault's online accreditation system is easily accessed through the company's InnerVault partner portal, which enables new and existing channel partners to complete the required accreditation process at their convenience and without additional training or travel-related expenses. Partners simply assess their product knowledge through a series of online tests that gauge competency in the following areas: CommVault and its single platform approach, Simpana 8 Backup and Recovery, Simpana 8 Deduplication, Simpana 8 Virtualization and Simpana 8 Content Management.

CommVault is dedicated to working with its channel partners in building on the success of more than 10,000 companies that have chosen Simpana software over competing solutions. Using Simpana software, customers have been able to better streamline data growth management, lower overall costs, increase operational improvements and reduce compliance risks.

Reinforcing CommVault's Channel-Centric Business Model

  • These latest enhancements further extend the benefits of CommVault's PartnerAdvantage program, which was introduced to partners in October 2008. The addition of online accreditation bolsters CommVault's overall channel training by offering partner sales and technical personnel with a highly economical, streamlined approach for mastering product fundamentals. For more in-depth training, CommVault also offers instructor-led, multi-day certification courses.
  • A variety of benefits, which are particularly useful during budget-constrained times, include discounted and complementary certification training across all tier levels comprising Authorized, Gold, National and Platinum partners. Existing and prospective partners will be able to leverage the new online tools to reduce training time and expenses while also facilitating faster sales cycles, entry into new markets and greater access to new, profitable business opportunities.
  • Access to CommValue professional services tools and implementation guidelines also are available online to provide channel partners with innovative solutions for helping their customers reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies.

Supporting Quotes

  • "We're committed to giving our best-in-class channel partners the right tools, training and deployment techniques they need to elevate their technical and sales proficiencies to the level where they can clearly articulate all the advantages of CommVault's singular approach to information management," explains Mark Conley, director, North American Channels, CommVault. "In today's tightened economy, it's imperative that CommVault makes it easy and affordable for our partners to attain the product knowledge and training they need to assist their customers with innovative solutions that reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies."
  • "We look forward to leveraging CommVault's latest online training tools to quickly and efficiently expand our knowledge of all the different ways that Simpana software can meet our customers' rapidly changing data management needs," says Bret Osborn, executive vice president at Lilien, a value-added reseller based in San Francisco "As a result, we'll be able to access markets and potential customers previously unavailable to us while facilitating a faster path to more profitable Simpana software business."
 

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