Commvault Flex Expands to Hitachi Vantara, NetApp for Scalable Resilience in AI Era

Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, recently announced an expansion of its Commvault Flex partner ecosystem, extending to Hitachi Vantara and NetApp. Designed for organisations with very large, dynamic datasets, Commvault Flex, previously called HyperScale Flex, delivers purpose-built data protection and resilience with a flexible architecture that connects to external high-performance flash storage pools.

Commvault Flex and the Demands of the AI Era

The demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-ready data centre capacity is expected to rise at an average rate of 33 percent annually as more organisations use AI for their mission-critical applications. This explosion in AI-generated data is driving an acute need for resilient, flexible solutions that can scale performance and capacity independently of traditional compute and storage. In turn, this can help organisations scale recovery of critical systems, avoid overprovisioning, help reduce costs, and support stringent service-level agreements.

Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault, said: “Many organisations require solutions that

provide uninterrupted access to data systems, address capacity requirements of large AI datasets, and meet performance requirements for resilience and recovery. Commvault Flex, in tandem with Hitachi Vantara, NetApp, and other partners, enables customers to scale their flash storage solutions to meet demands for multiple-petabyte throughput.”

Building on the existing Commvault Flex ecosystem with Everpure, HPE, and VAST Data, this expanded ecosystem with Hitachi Vantara and NetApp gives enterprises greater flexibility and confidence to meet cyber recovery performance objectives while maintaining consistency with their preferred storage vendors. The Commvault Flex models are delivered as a software image that can easily be installed on validated server hardware and connected with the storage hardware of these partners.

Dan McConnell, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Enablement, at Hitachi Vantara, added: “Organisations face unprecedented pressure to digitalise their business while protecting it from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Commvault and Hitachi Vantara help reduce enterprise risk by delivering trusted, intelligent, and scalable infrastructure with exceptional performance, data availability, cyber resilience, and efficiency. With Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One data platform, customers can bring high-performance, enterprise-grade storage to Commvault Flex environments, helping them scale capacity and accelerate recovery across large, dynamic datasets.”

Gagan Gulati, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Services, at NetApp, further commented: “In today’s AI-driven world, resilience at scale is foundational for compliance, operational continuity, and maintaining a competitive edge. By combining Commvault Flex’s resilience, protection, and recovery capabilities with NetApp’s enterprise-grade data platform with built-in intelligence and AI-driven ransomware detection, we’re delivering a powerful, end‑to‑end cyber resilience solution.”

Availability and Pricing of Commvault Flex

The Commvault Flex integration with Hitachi Vantara and NetApp is targeted for general availability this summer. Pricing is configured based on the specific server and storage options selected for the solution. For more information about Commvault Flex, visit the portfolio page.