The Ennovar Institute at Wichita State University today announced a partnership with Commvault, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud.

Through this relationship, Commvault will provide Ennovar its industry-leading data protection and management software, expert training and best practices for deriving value and business insight from data.

“We’re excited about working with Ennovar — not only providing them with Commvault software, but equipping the students with valuable experience and training to assist them to be better qualified employees after they graduate and hit the job market,” said Dick Burton, account executive for Commvault. “This collaboration will help make them much more versatile.”

The relationship between Commvault and Ennovar began last fall, and Burton and systems engineer Bill Roberts recently visited campus to install software and do an initial round of training for Ennovar, the Institute of Emerging Technology and Market Solutions.

At that time, Commvault set up an environment for the staff and students to use the program to train on a premier data management program.

Burton is familiar with the needs of the state of Kansas through its State and Local Government Education program. It’s through this program that Commvault engineers became aware of a lack of trained information technology staff in Kansas, and they want to help fill that gap.

“We hope the relationship will lead to increased product recognition and knowledge and as an avenue for career placement,” said Burton.

Ennovar leadership hopes the relationship will result in establishing Ennovar as a Commvault center of excellence.

“By incorporating Commvault into our data center and gaining expertise on the software, we’ll not only become a facility for testing and showcasing Commvault software, but also be able to certify Ennovar staff and students as Commvault administrators,” said Matt Forney, director of research and technology for Ennovar.

About Commvault

Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third party influencers for its technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on premise, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Commvault employs more than 2,300 highly skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more about Commvault — and how it can help make your data work for you — visit www.commvault.com.