TechValidate Research on Commvault® Software

Introduction

This case study of a small business computer software 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

• Data under management has grown by 11 to 25% since the initial deployment of CommVault® Simpana® software.
• Addressed the following operational/business challenges by deploying their CommVault® software solution:
  • Improved the efficiency of a business processes
  • Reduced IT infrastructure costs
  • Reduced storage costs
  • Improved uptime / access to data
  • Achieved better performance
  • Improved protection for critical data
  • Met scalability needs

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: 101-500
  • Number of Virtual Servers: 51-100

Results

• Saw a 26% to 50% ROI for hardware, software, support and personnel costs over a 3 year period.
• Recouped their investment in CommVault software in 19-24 months.
• Recovers data 35% faster since deploying CommVault® Simpana® software.
• Reduced data management costs since deploying CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Server and network costs: 20 to 39%
  • Storage hardware & tape media costs: 40 to 59%
  • Headcount / Personnel costs: 20 to 39%
  • Software maintenance costs: 20 to 39%
  • Total data management costs: 20 to 39%

Introduction

This case study of a S&P 500 banking company is based on a February 2014 survey of Public Cloud Usage customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Moved to the public cloud for the following purposes:
  • Comply with a company mandate
  • Fulfill a line of business request

Use Case

• Spends or plans to spend the following budget on public cloud-based initiatives:
  • Currently: <10% of budget
  • Will, 12 months from now: >50% of budget
• Currently uses the following provider for public cloud initiatives:
  • Rackspace Cloud
• Uses the following cloud/object storage platform:
  • Hitachi Content Platform
• Has the following amount of infrastructure in a public cloud:
  • Test/dev environments: <10%
  • Individual workloads: <10%
  • Departmental workloads: <10%
  • Production environments: <10%
• Running the following enterprise applications in a public cloud:
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Microsoft SQL Server

Results

• Will use the following providers 12 months from now for public cloud initiatives:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Windows Azure
• Protecting their data in the public cloud with the following measures:
  • Geographic replication for copies
  • CommVault Simpana software