Commvault has
broadened its HyperScale portfolio with two new offerings, HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex, designed to strengthen cyber resilience where data is increasingly generated and stored: at the edge and within high-performance workloads.
Expanding Data Protection to the Edge
As enterprises push more workloads to branch offices, remote locations, and edge environments, attackers are exploiting new entry points. With breaches tied to edge devices and VPNs soaring, it underscores the need for localized protection and flexible infrastructure choices that keep pace with how organizations operate today.
Tim Zonca, VP of Portfolio Marketing at Commvault, told ChannelE2E, "The core of this announcement is about delivering unprecedented choice and flexibility, empowering our customers to build the most resilient on-site data protection architecture for their specific needs. Regardless of infrastructure, our strategy is to protect customer data with absolute consistency wherever it lives – at the edge, in the core data center, or across multiple public clouds. This flexibility also extends to our channel partners, giving them the ability to deliver tailored, best-fit solutions that meet customer needs while broadening market opportunities.”
Localized Resilience with HyperScale Edge
HyperScale Edge is aimed at remote sites, retail stores, distribution centers, and other locations with limited IT resources. Delivered as a software image, it can be installed on validated hardware from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo. The focus here is straightforward: localized backup and recovery that doesn’t overwhelm small environments but still provides enterprise-grade protection.
According to Zonca, partners will play a key role in extending these capabilities. “We are closely aligned with our regional sales and channel partners, providing them with information about these offerings to enable them to position these solutions with their customer base. Our partner enablement team provides targeted content to highlight key areas for market opportunities. These partnerships enable our customers to build solutions on hardware they already know and trust, backed by a collaborative engineering and validation process," Zonca said.
Zonca added that partners can go further by bundling complete solutions. “A partner can bundle and sell HyperScale Edge using their preferred hardware vendor. Commvault has validated reference designs with Dell, HPE, and Lenovo. To ease procurement and support, HyperScale Edge systems are designed with a Flexible BOM (FlexBOM) concept, which lists supported vendors, models, and other minimum guidelines. This flexibility is designed to allow our customers and Commvault partners to design solutions that balance capacity, performance, and costs.”
Meeting AI and Data-Intensive Demands with HyperScale Flex
For larger enterprises managing data-intensive or AI workloads, HyperScale Flex offers a different model. It connects to external flash storage pools, giving organizations flexibility and scale without locking them into a single appliance. Certified options include Pure Storage and VAST Data, with HPE on the horizon. The architecture is designed for multi-petabyte capacities and the performance requirements of industries like healthcare, telecom, and technology.
On Flex, Zonca emphasized the simplified experience, "Currently available for early adopter customers, HyperScale Flex is designed and supported by Commvault as an appliance-like experience to simplify hardware procurement and configuration, including first call support for all components. HyperScale Flex is a hardened appliance with built-in security controls that utilize an all-flash immutable storage platform. Currently, the HyperScale Flex nodes are only available on Dell and HPE platforms, and the two backend flash object storage solutions are from Pure Storage and VAST Data. Commvault will handle first call support for all the components of HS Flex, which includes the software, server hardware, and external storage hardware.”
Partner Opportunities Across the Ecosystem
With the introduction of Edge and Flex, Commvault is expanding hardware compatibility and giving customers more paths to deploy its cyber resilience software. For channel partners, the broadened ecosystem means new ways to address customer needs, whether that’s a retailer seeking localized recovery or an enterprise pushing into AI workloads. As Zonca summed up, the common thread is choice - flexible deployment models paired with consistent data protection and backed by a partner-first approach.
