Case Study: Emirates Steel achieves 50% faster database restores and halves data center footprint with Commvault

Emirates Steel - Customer Case Study

Emirates Steel, a government-owned Abu Dhabi steelmaker with 11 plants, 2,800 employees and 3.5 million tons annual output, was accelerating digitalization and cloud adoption but struggled with lengthy restores, fragmented backup systems, rising data center and storage costs, and the need to protect SAP, databases, email, SharePoint and virtual machines.

By consolidating protection with Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery and Commvault HyperScale, the company centralized protection for 400 TB (deduped to 70 TB at 5:1), enabled sub-10-minute snapshot recoveries and cut critical database restore times from three hours to under 90 minutes, reduced data center footprint by 50% to lower operational costs, and added replication, self-service and cloud-ready capabilities to future-proof operations.

Emirates Steel

Mohammad Azam

Head of IT Infrastructure