TechValidate Research on Commvault® Software

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a January 2012 survey of Commvault® Simpana® software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization 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
  • Improved uptime / access to data
  • Achieved better performance
  • Improved disaster recovery
  • Improved protection for critical data
  • Met scalability needs
  • Improved management efficiencies
  • Reduced complexity

Use Case

• Uses the following CommVault® Simpana® features:
  • Deduplication
  • Replication (CDR, DDR or DASH Copy)
• Protects the following with CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Terabytes of data (TBs): Less than 10
  • Number of Physical Servers: Less than 10
  • Number of Virtual Servers: 10-50

Results

• Saw a 11% to 25% ROI for hardware, software, support and personnel costs over a 3 year period.
• Recouped their investment in CommVault software in 25-36 months.
• Recovers data 66% 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
  • Headcount / Personnel costs: 20 to 39%
  • Software maintenance costs: 19% or less
  • Total data management costs: 20 to 39%

Introduction

This case study of FNF Construction Inc. is based on a June 2014 survey of Commvault® Simpana® software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• Has 11% to 25% of storage consumed by data that has little or no business value (unnecessary data).
• Addressed the following challenges by deploying CommVault software solution:
  • Reduced IT infrastructure/storage costs
  • Delivered better access to information
  • Improved management efficiencies
  • Met compliance or legal requirements

Use Case

• Unstructured data growth rate is 26% to 50%.
• 11% to 25% of their data is accessed after 90 days.

Results

• Paid back their investment in CommVault software in > 18 months.
• Workforce productivity has increased 11% to 25% through faster access to data, self-service recovery, or integrated legal/compliance search since they deployed CommVault Simpana software.
• Saved 10-20 hours per week by enabling self-service access to information for end-users and legal/compliance teams.