Marketing communications group STW Communications Group is deploying Simpana software of data and storage management software firm CommVault to deliver a scalable, centralised backup and recovery offering, utilising SnapProtect technology to increase compliance and content management capabilities.
With CommVault’s data management approach, STW Group is better positioned to manage 120TBs of mission-critical data, while meeting its member companies’ escalating demands for rapid recovery and longer-term retention of vital artwork archives and project files.
Using Simpana software, STW creates multiple recovery points for its Microsoft Exchange and VMware environments to improve service levels for recoverability, maximise the effectiveness of existing storage hardware investments and reduce overall business risk.
With Simpana software, STW Group is replacing several legacy data protection platforms that didn’t meet the company’s requirements for increased data security.
The combination of Simpana software, NetApp and Cisco’s FlexPod data centre offering provides the additional performance and flexibility for STW to keep pace with exponential growth at 40% lower cost than an alternative outsourcing arrangement.
According to STW, Simpana software’s advanced functionality, including deduplication, archive with content indexing and storage resource management, will fuel increased operational efficiencies while offering a big-picture view of its environment for improvements in proactive data management.
STW Communications Group CIO Tom Ceglarek said the new infrastructure will take out the uncertainties, so STW will be able to predict what it needs resource-wise with 100% confidence.
"Flexibility and security were major considerations as we are responsible for our client data and must know at all times where it is and where it’s going. With such rapid data growth, we don’t really know how the business will grow next, but we now have the flexibility and functionality to face whatever comes up," said Ceglarek.
