Commvault Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVLT) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Gary Merrill: Yes. Jason carry out with the first one, and I’ll pass over to Sanjay to talk about your of your second part as it relates to contribution in FY25, we built now a very repeatable business model with recurring revenues function. And so with that, that will get contribution from within that subscription line, we will get strong contribution from all three resorts that those sources would be our renewal business. Our land expand business on the terminals and the highest level of acceleration will be tied to our SaaS business. You’ll be able to model it. If you just kind of take a look at our saas ARR where we end of the year looking at a pretty good sense for what our SaaS contribution will be, which would be very strong again. But it will be complemented with them with good growth from the term software licenses as well and Saga pass it to you on the second part .

Sanjay Mirchandani: So the short answer is yes, absolutely CSOs, um, we have vested more see sales in the last six, seven months and probably the prior two years only because their requirements have increased. And it’s not just about perimeter security. It is about recovery. And recovery traditionally has lived with IT. So Ofcom, all cloud platform, bridges. And we think a very unique and what we do, the needs of a classic Cecil organizations, responsibilities with a classic IT infrastructure organizations, responsibly the data protection, we bridge the two. We also have rich CIS and non-CIS, which is very important to capabilities. You need more unification. We also integrate with the perimeter with the lifestyle of Palo Alto with a lot of dark Tracy, we integrate with their capabilities so that their intelligence is that into our capability that our intelligence has been impacted.

But there’s so it is a unified platform for both security organization and the IT infrastructure organization in most companies, and that is very appealing. So it’s not a pivot on one side of the other recovery as a team sport when you get paid and time is of essence, we believe are the only platform with the capability to get that out to get customers back up. It was last year.

Jason Ader: And then just a quick follow up to Sanjay. Do you foresee the industry starting to see consolidation? Peter, between kind of your line of business is open backup and recovery and and cyber resilience with more traditional security companies who some of our the on the Symantec Veritas, you know, a decade ago concept.

Sanjay Mirchandani: I don’t think I’m following your question for you, but perimeter security, IT consolidation by what we call legacy backup convergence between security vendors and traditional backup vendors. Yes. So there is no resilience without core security. So over the years, we have filled all all of the required zero Trust type market. Taxes plus plus plus into our technology to make the data that we protect more secure and more verifiable undercover. What we’ve also done, which I think is unique to us to us is what are competing with the traditional security players were integrated with the traditional security players because that is therefore take. But the recovery is a team sport, like I said earlier, and you need to have the intelligence to make sure that the data that shows that to restoring this recovery is actually clean is actually the way you wanted.

And so that having the threat intelligence out of the risk assessment and having all of that integrated into our capabilities with partnerships and some of it, our own makes the platform more robust than anybody else. And we know what we’re really good at and we’re going to and we protect customers’ data in a difficult world. We said that for many years, and we continue to put that at the heart of what we do. That doesn’t mean we don’t partner.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Rudy Kissinger from D.A. Davidson.

Rudy Kessinger: Yes, thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the strong numbers here. I know it’s still early with cyber resilience, but could you talk about maybe the expected ASP uplift, you know that you expect in some of these deals? And in when this year, should we maybe start to see some material contribution from new business standpoint from cyber resilience?

Gary Merrill: It really is very good morning, and thanks for and it’s still early for us. So we’re not right at the point where we’re going to start giving maybe specific contribution in uplifts. I will say though, that during the quarter, we already sold hospices. So our results for its reflect contribution as well in some of our own results relative to export patients are related to that to the that contribution. And we’re building pipeline. And that’s the key point. And it’s more about building the pipeline and built and taking our customers through that journey from where they are today to ultimate cyber resilience. So it’s not just you go from here to there. It’s a journey and we can do there that multiple ways they can build that over time.

We have other bundling and packaging options that they can go straight there. And with some of the functionality we released with like cleaning room technology today, right, we’re giving them the opportunity to build that on through through that journey. But maybe Sanjay pathway.

Sanjay Mirchandani: I’ll just give you a an observation of data appointed customers that have been reached completely gravitate towards the cyber resilience, messaging and capabilities because they know what it takes to recover and it is hard. So are our cyber resilience capabilities in the platform, CIS and non-CIS a very appealing. We’d like Gary said, we’ve already seen some success. The pipeline is building and all the conversations we’re having with customers gravitate towards how fast can we get to be really resilient. And that comes with two things are an incredible ability to recover, which which we bring to the table. And with our unique innovation on clean-room, it’s our capability, as Gary mentioned, your ability to test your readiness as often as you walk across all workloads so that you are truly ready for that, that attack if it happens.

So again, it’s a it’s not yet the packages newish, but the desire and customers and understanding of where they need to be isn’t that especially when different. Rich.

Operator: And that concludes today’s Q&A session. Now would like to turn the conference back over to Mike for closing remarks.

Michael Melnyk: Thanks, Balu, for those. For those of you who will be out at RSA in San Francisco, we’re going to have an exciting boots with exhibitors, and we’ll have our executive management team present as well as the number of our field personnel. So we hope you can join us at RSA next week. As a reminder, a recap of the call, we have a presentation posted on our Investor Relations website, and you can reach out to me with any questions. Thanks for joining today, and we look forward to speaking with you soon.

Operator: This conc ludes today’s conference call and enjoy the rest of your day. You may now disconnect.

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