Case Study: Chivas Brothers achieves faster restores, 90% data deduplication and 70% lower admin overhead with Commvault Simpana

Chivas Brothers Blends Top-Shelf Data Protecting With Premium Deduplication to Safeguard Mission-Critical Enterprise Data

Chivas Brothers, the Scotch whisky and premium gin arm of Pernod Ricard with 1,500 staff across 31 UK sites, struggled with rapid data growth (over 30% annually) that overwhelmed its tape-based backup infrastructure. Daily and weekly backups regularly missed windows, restores could take up to 48 hours, and decentralized management across multiple remote sites created high administrative overhead and operational risk.

Chivas deployed CommVault Simpana Backup & Recovery with integrated deduplication and disk-based replication, cutting the backup window in half and reducing Oracle backups by 50%. Deduplication rates reached up to 90% (Exchange) and 80% (Oracle), enabling up to three months of disk retention and minute‑level restores. Tape use at remote sites was eliminated, LTO replacement was deferred (≈$32K media savings), and centralized, policy-based management reduced administrative overhead by about 70%.

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Les Gilfillan

Network Manager