TechValidate Research on Commvault® Software

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise retail company is based on a November 2013 survey of Commvault® Simpana® software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased CommVault® Simpana® software to solve the following operational and/or business challenges:
  • Reduce IT infrastructure costs
  • Reduce storage costs
  • Improve protection for distributed/endpoint data
  • Deliver better, more timely access to information

Use Case

• Has 51% to 75% of their data on PC’s (laptops, desktops and workstations).
• Is protecting 1 to 100 PC’s (laptops, desktops and workstations) with CommVault® Simpana® software.

Results

• Achieved the following with CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Realized better access to protected information for users
  • Reduced data loss risk
• Realized a ROI of 51% to 75% with CommVault Edge™.
• Reduced data management costs in the following areas with CommVault® Simpana® software for their laptops, desktops and workstations:
  • server, storage, network, media costs: > 75%
  • headcount/personnel costs: > 75%
  • software maintenance costs: 74% to 50%
  • overall cost: 74% to 50%
• Increased workforce productivity in the following areas with CommVault® Simpana® software for laptop, desktop and workstation data:
  • administrators: 74% to 50%

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise telecommunications services company is based on a January 2012 survey of Commvault® Simpana® software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Addressed the following operational/business challenges by deploying their CommVault® software solution:
  • Improved the efficiency of a business processes
  • Achieved better performance
  • Met scalability needs
  • Improved management efficiencies
  • Reduced complexity

Use Case

• Uses the following CommVault® Simpana® features:
  • Deduplication
  • Replication (CDR, DDR or DASH Copy)
  • SRM/Reporting
• Protects the following with CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Terabytes of data (TBs): 51-100
  • Number of Physical Servers: More than 500
  • Number of Virtual Servers: 51-100

Results

• Paid back their investment in CommVault software in 13-18 months.
• Recovers data 75% faster since deploying CommVault® Simpana® software.
• Reduced data management costs since deploying CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Total data management costs: 20 to 39%