Cutting Costs, Boosting Efficiency: Syncreon’s $500K Savings with Commvault Data Protection

Ensures continuous supply chain operations

Through acquisitions of companies over the years and changes in technology, Syncreon ended up with six different backup solutions, including Veeam, Rubrik, Microsoft, HP Data Protector, Druva Phoenix, and Druva inSync. Each solution had its own licensing method – such as charging per CPU or data storage in the cloud, so it was difficult to manage and predict licensing costs.

Centralizing the overall administration of licensing with Commvault Cloud Autonomous Recovery empowered Syncreon to easily plan its IT budget based on per operating instances, such as by virtual server or by virtual machine, and save significant costs.

“We were up for $200,000 in lease buy out costs and support renewal costs with Rubrik in our Las Vegas data center. On top of this was another $300,000 if we decided to roll out the same solution to the Dublin data center,” said Gallagher. “By deploying Commvault, we avoided shelling out almost $500,000 over three years in licensing, lease buy outs on aging hardware, and new hardware costs and gained a predictable and flexible licensing model.”

Gallagher adds that cost was one of the main drivers but the ability to integrate with a wide range of systems was another key consideration.

“With Commvault, we now have the ability to back up HPE UX solutions, which wasn’t possible with Rubrik,” said Gallagher.

Syncreon also adopted the endpoint protection feature with Commvault to automate the process of recovering files or data from over 2,500 laptops spanning across multiple locations.

“Commvault gives us confidence that our critical business data can be quickly recovered if a laptop was stolen or had some kind of ransomware attack,” said Gallagher.

By deploying Commvault, we avoided shelling out almost $500,000 over three years in licensing, lease buy outs on aging hardware, and new hardware costs and gained a predictable and flexible licensing model.”

Improves productivity with a centralized data protection platform

In the past, Syncreon had different support teams – End Device Support, Database, Windows, and Linux – involved in managing six backup solutions. Now with Commvault, Syncreon has a more centralized support team to manage all backups, including laptops and servers, across four data centers (two in Dublin and two in Las Vegas).

The consolidation also eliminated the need for the IT team to transport tapes to another site on a weekly basis. This helped Syncreon free up resources within the team and allocate them to more business-driven projects.

“By centralizing the backups for all servers and endpoint devices globally with Commvault, we now have greater visibility of our overall data protection process and improved team productivity,” said Gallagher.

Commvault Command CenterTM also provides role-based access control features for Syncreon to assign tiered responsibility levels across different sites.

“The dashboard and reporting within Commvault enables our team to easily monitor and identify any backup issues without relying on a particular person or site. It gives us confidence that the data is secured and available,” said Gallagher

By leveraging Commvault to easily move data back to the data centers, we have avoided paying up to $24,000 cloud storage costs per year to just $80,000 of storage hardware.”