TechValidate Research on Commvault® Software

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise industrial manufacturing 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 protection for critical data
  • Improved management efficiencies
  • Met compliance requirements
  • Reduced complexity
  • Consolidation

Use Case

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

Results

• Recovers data 80% faster since deploying CommVault® Simpana® software.

Introduction

This case study of a federal government 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 100+% 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
  • Met compliance requirements
  • Reduced complexity

Use Case

• Uses the following CommVault® Simpana® features:
  • Deduplication
  • Replication (CDR, DDR or DASH Copy)
  • Desktop/Laptop Protection
• Protects the following with CommVault® Simpana® software:
  • Terabytes of data (TBs): 51-100
  • Number of Physical Servers: 10-50
  • Number of Virtual Servers: 101-500

Results

• Recovers data 10% 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: 19% or less
  • Software maintenance costs: 19% or less
  • Total data management costs: 19% or less