Case Study: Dow Jones achieves 50% DR cost reduction and cuts recovery from 4 days to 4 hours with Commvault

Dow Jones' Move to AWS with Commvault

Dow Jones, the New York–based global news and data firm, needed to rapidly modernize after News Corp set targets to move the majority of compute to the public cloud and shrink its global data-center footprint. At the time the company maintained over 30,000 tapes (5 PB), relied on a distant disaster-recovery center with high offsite costs, slow SLAs and vulnerability to East Coast hurricanes, creating unacceptable risk and operational overhead.

Dow Jones partnered with Commvault and migrated workloads to Amazon Web Services, using Commvault for secure migration, unified backup and hybrid data management. By December 2016 it had moved 58% of compute to AWS, migrated 4,000+ instances, achieved a 400% year‑over‑year increase in AWS instances, cut DR operating costs by 50%+, reduced recovery times for key apps from four days to four hours, and lowered data-center power consumption below 2005 levels.

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Shaown Nandi

Chief Information Officer and Head of Technology