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Reliability of both backups and recoveries has soared. “Simpana backups just work and restores are no longer a case of ‘fingers crossed’ that we can get our data back,” explains Gilfillan. “We have full confidence we can recover what we need quickly and with minimal fuss
performance, manageability and scalability the team required to safeguard all of its mission-critical applications and data, regardless of where the information resided. After reviewing functionality and overall product architecture, Chivas Brothers spoke to several Simpana software customers, which sealed the decision to move forward with CommVault.
Chivas Brothers Toasts Simpana Software’s Modern Data Management In November 2009, Chivas Brothers deployed Simpana software and began to realize immediate benefits from its modern approach to data management. For instance, the company reports that the combination of disk-based backups and integrated deduplication enabled the company to cut its backup window in half. Oracle ERP backups also have been decreased by 50 percent, which minimizes any downtime of this crucial system.
Reliability of both backups and recoveries has soared. “Simpana backups just work and restores are no longer a case of ‘fingers crossed’ that we can get our data back,” explains Gilfillan. “We have full confidence we can recover what we need quickly and with minimal fuss.”
In particular, the team appreciates the granular restore capabilities for Microsoft Exchange, which enables recovery of individual emails, folders and mailboxes or entire Exchange databases and systems. Additionally, Chivas Brothers takes advantage of CommVault’s embedded deduplication capabilities and reports a reduction of up to 90 percent of backup Exchange data as well as 80 percent of Oracle data stored on disk and tape. “CommVault’s deduplication has exceeded our expectations,” says Gilfillan. “The savings are remarkable—we didn’t expect it to be this good!”
Thanks to impressive data reduction results, Chivas Brothers now retains up to three months of data on disk, which has led to faster recoveries and decreased tape media costs. In most cases, disk-based data restores can be performed in minutes, which is a vast improvement over the 48 hours it took previously. Moreover, the team predicts savings in tape media costs of approximately $32,000 by eliminating incremental backups to tape along with additional savings by deferring replacement of 20 older LTO tape drives. CommVault’s integrated replication functionality has enabled the elimination of tape-based backups at Chivas’ four main sites. Additionally, the team has been able to reduce the number of remote backup master servers from eight to one, which further streamlines administration while reducing costs. “Previously, we had to log into each remote server to verify backup jobs had run successfully,” Gilfillan notes. “Now, we view everything at once, which saves time and increases the productivity of our staff.”
Chivas Brothers also takes advantage of CommVault’s Simpana software Virtual Server Agent (VSA) to effectively bridge the gap between legacy backup and recovery processes and the newer, modern data protection techniques required to yield maximum efficiencies in a heavily virtualised environment. “One of the areas that really sold us on CommVault over the incumbent and other competitive solutions was the elegant way in which Simpana protects a consolidated virtualised environment,” adds Gilfillan. With Simpana software’s consolidated management capabilities, Chivas Brothers states that it has lowered administrative overhead by 70 percent. “We replaced multiple instances of legacy data management software with a centralised ‘single pane of glass’ and intuitive graphical user interface,” Gilfillan says. “The administrative savings are significant, which means a lot as we only have one dedicated person overseeing this area.”
In the future, Chivas Brothers is planning an upgrade to Simpana software version 9 so they can take advantage of both source- and target-side deduplication. In bringing source- side deduplication into the mix, the team expects additional performance gains by eliminating redundant data at the client before sending it over the corporate network. Chivas also is exploring the addition of CommVault’s email and file archiving as well as its Remote Operations Management Service, which combines software, systems and personnel to provide managed monitoring of Chivas Brothers’s environment. “I just want to know that my backups have run and there’s no fear factor when it comes to restores,” concludes Gilfillan. “As a proactive partner, CommVault delivers, which gives me complete confidence in the integrity of our enterprise data.”
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