TechValidate Research on Commvault® Software

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government is based on a June 2018 survey of Commvault® Software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select Commvault® Software:

• Biggest business problem solved by implementing Commvault on AWS was in cloud data protection.

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Commvault® Software that the surveyed organization uses:

• Using Commvault on AWS for the following:
  • Backup to S3, S3-IA or Glacier
• AWS services in use with Commvault today:
  • S3 or S3-IA
• Commvault’s data platform solutions currently in use:
  • Backup
  • Disaster recovery
  • Archive

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Commvault® Software:

• Reasons for using Commvault for their AWS projects:
  • Because of their deduplication and compression
  • Because they needed a disaster recovery solution that meets their RPO and RTO goals
• Realized the following outcomes after moving to the AWS Cloud with Commvault:
  • Lowered infrastructure costs
  • Cost effective, flexible disaster recovery
• Cost savings after implementing Commvault on AWS:

Introduction

This case study of a small business professional 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

• Data under management has grown by 51 to 75% 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
  • Improved disaster recovery
  • Improved protection for critical data
  • Met compliance requirements

Use Case

• Uses the following CommVault® Simpana® features:
  • SnapProtect (snapshot management)
  • Content Indexing
• 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: Less than 10

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 13-18 months.
• Recovers data 85% 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: 20 to 39%
  • Software maintenance costs: 19% or less
  • Total data management costs: 19% or less