Company: CVLT
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001169561-25-000034
Chunk: 6

Company: COMMVAULT SYSTEMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 6
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; industry analyst relations; publication of technical and educational articles in industry journals; sales training; and preparation of competitive analyses. In addition, our strategic partners augment our marketing and sales campaigns through seminars, trade shows, joint public relations and advertising campaigns. Our customers and strategic partners provide references and recommendations that we often feature in external marketing activities.

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Research and Development

Our research and development organization is responsible for the design, development, testing and certification of our cyber resilience platform and solutions. Our engineering efforts support product development across all major operating systems, databases, applications, hyperscalers and network storage devices. A substantial amount of our development effort goes into certification, integration and support of our solutions to ensure interoperability with our strategic partners’ solutions. We have also made substantial investments in the automation of our product test and quality assurance laboratories.

Technology, Intellectual Property and Proprietary Rights

We believe our solutions are a major differentiator versus our competitors’ portfolios. Our Commvault Cloud platform aims to deliver best-in-class cyber resilience with the fastest recovery across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Our solutions’ unique features drive the performance, scale, TCO benefits and interoperability of our offerings. Such features include encryption, indexing and immutable recovery. Additional options enable content search and auditing features to support data discovery and compliance. Our success and ability to compete depend on our continued development and protection of our solutions. We rely primarily on a combination of trade secrets, patents, and copyrights, as well as contractual provisions, to establish and protect our intellectual property rights. 

We patent our technical infrastructure and key usability and design concepts. Our product’s unique capabilities are covered by a robust portfolio of patents worldwide. Areas such as cyber resilience, data protection, transformation, insights, and compliance and governance, including our SaaS and HyperScale X solutions, are core to our competitive advantage. More than 1,500 patents have been issued to Commvault globally as a result of our strategic patenting. We also have established proprietary trademark rights in markets across the globe, and Commvault owns over 200 worldwide trademark registrations and pending registration applications. Refer to our “Risk Factors” below.

Government Regulations

The global legal environment of technology businesses is evolving rapidly and is often unclear. These topics include data privacy and security, pricing, advertising, taxation, economic sanctions, content regulation and intellectual property ownership and infringement. 

We are subject to several local, state, federal and foreign laws and regulations regarding data privacy and security. Regulators around the world have adopted or proposed