Case Study: Linamar achieves major time and cost savings with Commvault’s Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery

Global manufacturing company saves time and costs with SaaS-based Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery

Linamar, a diversified global manufacturer with 7,000+ Office 365 users across 61 plants, needed a more reliable and scalable way to protect cloud mailboxes after moving from on-premises Exchange and costly, manual tape backups. The legacy tape process was time-consuming, expensive, and slow—restore requests could take weeks—and built-in Office 365 archiving alone could not meet the company’s recovery and compliance needs.

Linamar adopted Commvault’s Metallic Office 365 Backup & Recovery SaaS during its migration, giving the team a single-pane-of-glass for management, automated cloud backups (supporting up to 15,000 mailboxes and multiple daily backups), and strong vendor support. The switch eliminated tape costs and manual overhead, cut backup admin time by about 32 hours per month, and reduced restore times from weeks to hours.

Linamar

Kristian Smith

Manager of Technical Services & Support