Case Study: District Photo achieves daily high‑performance backups and 90% storage savings with CommVault Simpana and Nimble Storage (Customer: District Photo; Solution providers: CommVault & Nimble)

District Photo Standardizes on CommVault and Nimble Storage Integrated Solution for Backup Management

District Photo, a longtime photo fulfillment leader printing and shipping millions of images daily, faced IT strain from rapid growth. The company needed to consolidate disparate vendors and legacy tape processes into a standardized disk-to-disk-to-tape approach, deploy a Windows-based data protection solution with strong RTO/RPO, ensure full (not fractional) backups across a virtualized environment, and improve both application and backup performance.

District Photo standardized on CommVault Simpana software with Nimble Storage CS-Series—using Nimble as primary storage and CommVault as the backup manager, including native IntelliSnap integration. The deployment enabled daily backups of all data, simplified administration with policy-driven backups, faster recoveries, replication-based disaster recovery, and roughly 90% average reduction in backup footprint through CommVault deduplication and Nimble compression, while retaining tape for offsite archival.

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Ray Simpson

IT manager, District photo, Inc.