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title: "It’s Commvault Simple!! IDC Survey Reveals That in 2021, Commvault Customers Drove Efficiency Up and Costs Down"
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date: "2021-11-29T16:01:46-05:00"
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description: "Commvault customers have been able to thrive in uncertain times due to effective data management, rock-solid protection and recovery—resulting in cost control, among other positive results."
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# It’s Commvault Simple!! IDC Survey Reveals That in 2021, Commvault Customers Drove Efficiency Up and Costs Down

Data is a company’s most critical asset—it helps organizations make money, spend money, and spot inefficiencies in their operations. But how are businesses effectively managing their data today?

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The new IDC White Paper, sponsored by Commvault, “Quantifying the Business Value of Commvault Software: Worldwide Customer Survey Analysis,” digs deep into the customer experience with data management using Commvault solutions.

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With more than 18 months of uncertainty around world events and business challenges—and more to come—IT right now faces a chaotic landscape with ever-evolving threats like ransomware, obstacles like lack of agility, and the overall need for data resiliency.

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We’re diving into a blog series on this survey to uncover customers’ biggest challenges and how they’re leveraging Commvault’s Intelligent Data Services to overcome them. The survey covers 470+ Commvault customers and their struggles to manage and protect data wherever it lives. The 2021 survey updates similar surveys conducted by IDC commissioned by Commvault in 2016 and 2018.

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According to the survey, Commvault’s key benefits fall into three categories:

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- **Simplification:** streamlining data processes through automation and consolidation
- **Risk reduction:** Mitigating risk by reducing downtime and data loss, improving recovery speed, and providing litigation support
- **Productivity gains:** enabling gains in terms of both tactical operations and strategic planning

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This means efficiency, protection, and overall productivity are increased with Commvault. Numbers don’t lie, so let’s look at how that shakes out in our customers’ environments:

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- **50%** reduction in annual unplanned downtime
- **60+%** reduction in annual exposure to compliance failures, audit failures, and/or data theft or breach
- **30%** improvement in VM recovery times and 19% improvement in average recovery time for database applications
- **78%** net cost reduction per TB for data management IT staff support
- **More than 80%** of surveyed customers said Commvault solutions enabled their organizations to be more agile in adapting to the market conditions of the past year

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Commvault customers have been able to thrive in uncertain times due to effective data management, rock-solid protection and recovery—resulting in cost control, among other positive results.

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This survey takes a critical look at market drivers for Commvault’s technology and its effectiveness in real-world environments. Stay tuned for the next installment, which will cover the simplicity aspect in detail.

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To read the IDC White Paper, visit: [IDC: Quantifying the Business Value of Commvault Software Whitepaper](https://www.commvault.com/idc-quantifying-the-business-value-of-commvault-software)