Information Technologies Accelerates Speed of Recovery and Ensures Business Continuity with Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365®

The Challenge

Over the past eight years, yit used Commvault Cloud Autonomous Recovery to back up various workloads, such as Exchange mailboxes, Oracle databases, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory, and 700 virtual machines. It would then copy the data on tapes and store them in a remote location for up to seven years. But recovering archived data through the tape-based approach could take days, negatively impacting the speed to respond to publishing requests.

With the move to Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes, yit wanted a SaaS-based solution to protect the entire Office 365 environment, including 1,500 mailboxes, Teams, and One Drive, and also to gain the flexibility to easily expand to other workloads in the future.

The Solution

Due to its positive experience using Commvault Cloud Autonomous Recovery for its on-premises environment, yit selected Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 to protect 1,000 mailboxes as the first step of its cloud strategy and will gradually expand to 1,500 mailboxes. It will consider using Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 for other workloads, such as Oracle Database and videos data in Amazon S3 – which are currently still using Commvault to back up the data – when the business has fully adopted the cloud over the next few years.

“Having a reliable and flexible data-management-as-a-service solution that could support our publishing business is critical,” said Molle. “Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 is secure, safe, and convenient. We can easily recover data without any issues.”

The transition to Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 was also quick and easy. Within three hours of installation, Molle and his team started backing up mailboxes. “Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 works very nicely since we first deployed the solution. You don’t have to learn anything new and it met our data retention requirements,” said Molle.

The Results

Through the automation with Commvault, yit can easily back up and store most archived data (except for video data in Amazon S3) on disks instead of tapes. This eliminates the time IT staff spent finding the correct tape and transporting it from the warehouse whenever there was a need to recover data.

By adding Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 Backup, yit has further reduced the time to recover data and responded faster to publishing requests, such as restoring an article published in the newspapers two years ago.

“Now, with Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365, we can fully recover Office 365 data in just a few minutes instead of days,” said Molle.

With an integrated dashboard, IT staff can easily manage their installed and cloud backups and ensure business continuity.

“Thanks to Commvault and Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365, there is now only one person rather than two persons involved in backup and recovery. Staff no longer need to work on a Sunday night and it just makes their life so much easier,” said Molle.

The reliability of Commvault and Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 also gives Molle peace of mind that their data is available and they can prevent ransomware attacks, whether the data lives on-premises or in the cloud.

“I would recommend Commvault and Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 without any hesitation. You can forget about backups and sleep better at night.” Eytan Molle System Manager, Yedioth Information Technologies