CommVault Systems, a software vendor specialising in enterprise data management solutions, has seen the sustained and rapid adoption of its Simpana software among South African companies, with a 240% growth in its customer base in the past 08/09 financial year.
The biggest growth has been in the financial services sector. CommVault has implemented Simpana software into Old Mutual Properties, African Bank and most recently, the FirstRand Group's Rand Merchant Bank.
Exceptionally stringent requirements for risk and regulatory management in this vertical require a very high level of technological sophistication. The need to drive cost savings and efficiency back into complex IT infrastructures has put the financial services industry miles ahead of other sectors on the data management adoption curve.
The government sector is another area where CommVault has seen substantial growth. Clients here include the Department of Arts and Culture, the Department of Social Services and the South African Weather Service. Building on significant past investments in backup, data management in this sector is now exploding as departments chase improved operational gains, cost savings, increased compliance and simplified data management.
“Feedback from our customers shows backup and recovery redesign are becoming key storage initiatives, surpassed only by consolidation. Companies are recognising many legacy solutions offering point products simply aren't equipped to deal with new challenges related to exploding data growth and increased infrastructure, bandwidth and performance needs,” says Nick Wonfor, GM for CommVault Systems, Africa. “Simpana's combination of all data management disciplines into one product, each application module sharing a common technology engine, delivers clear cost and operational benefits. This is seeing companies of all sizes switching to CommVault.”
CommVault's local success mirrors the inroads it is making into the global data management market. According to TheInfoPro Wave 12 Storage Study http://www.theinfopro.net/public/home/index.php, CommVault has garnered a top spot in attracting new customers from competing solutions, with 20% of respondents reported they had switched to CommVault from another vendor in the past year.
The company also outperformed peer groups in end-user demand for spending. Despite nearly half of the survey respondents citing budget cuts this year, 44% of current CommVault customers who took part in the study reported plans to spend more money on CommVault Simpana software in 2009. Additionally, CommVault continues to sustain strong customer loyalty as 100% of the current CommVault customers who took part in the study revealed no plans to replace Simpana software with an offering from a competing vendor.
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A singular vision - a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs - guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management solutions for high-performance data (CommVault Ranks number one in TIP Wave 12 Storage Spending Study Page 3 of 3 protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks). CommVault's exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault's Simpana software suite of products was designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, to deliver superlative data protection, archive, replication, search and resource management capabilities.
More companies every day join those who have discovered the unparalleled efficiency, performance, reliability, and control only CommVault can offer. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States. More information about CommVault is available at http://www.commvault.com
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