TechValidate Research on Commvault® Software

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise retail 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 100+% since the initial deployment of CommVault® Simpana® software.
• Addressed the following operational/business challenges by deploying their CommVault® software solution:
  • Improved uptime / access to data
  • Improved disaster recovery
  • Met scalability needs
  • Reduced complexity

Use Case

• Uses the following CommVault® Simpana® features:
  • Backup/Recovery
• Protects the following with CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Terabytes of data (TBs): 101-500
  • Number of Physical Servers: 101-500
  • Number of Virtual Servers: 101-500

Results

• Saw a 76% to 100% ROI for hardware, software, support and personnel costs over a 3 year period.
• Recouped their investment in CommVault software in 13-18 months.
• Recovers data 40% faster since deploying CommVault® Simpana® software.
• Reduced data management costs since deploying CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Server and network costs: 19% or less
  • Storage hardware & tape media costs: 19% or less
  • Software maintenance costs: 19% or less
  • Total data management costs: 19% or less

Introduction

This case study of SCE Federal Credit Union is based on a July 2015 survey of Commvault® Software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• Addressed the following operational and/or business challenges by deploying their Commvault software solution:
  • Reduced IT infrastructure/storage costs
  • Delivered better access to information
  • Improved management efficiencies
  • Backups

Use Case

• Uses Commvault Archiving for the following:
  • Files
  • Email
  • SQL
• Their legal/compliance team is using the self-service compliance search capabilities within Commvault software.

Results

• Realized an ROI of 101 – 200% after implementing Commvault over a 3 year period considering hardware, software, support, personnel and other related costs.
• Estimates that workforce productivity increased by 51%-75% through faster access to data, self-service recovery, or integrated legal/compliance search since deploying Commvault software.