Case Study: Expert SE achieves drastically reduced backup times and simplified, automated data management with Commvault

Expert SE - Customer Case Study

Expert SE, a consumer electronics retail cooperative based in Langenhagen, Germany (194 partners, 432 locations), was struggling with rapidly growing data (about 20% annually) and a fragmented backup environment. Their NetApp metro cluster with 225 VMs and SQL servers required complex, time-consuming administration, full backups could take ~30 hours, and processes relied on specialist knowledge and tape-based backups.

By implementing the Commvault data management platform (backup/recovery for VMs, SQL and NAS, plus deduplication, replication and snapshot management) integrated with their NetApp storage, Expert dramatically reduced full backup times from ~30 hours to a few hours or minutes, eliminated tape, simplified administration, reduced specialized training needs, and freed IT resources to focus on strategic projects.

Expert SE

Oliver Rebock

Head of IT