Case Study: Woodward, Inc. achieves scalable, lower-cost data protection and dramatically faster backups/restores with Commvault

how Woodward, Inc. scaled protection for exponential data growth while lowering costs

Woodward, Inc., a 150‑year‑old aeronautical and industrial manufacturer with more than 9,000 employees across 25 sites, faced exponential data growth that strained legacy backup tools and processes. Slow backups, inconsistent policies, no central management and soaring storage costs caused missed RPO/RTO targets, lengthy restores and limited disaster‑recovery visibility across thousands of VMs, databases, NAS and cloud workloads.

By standardizing on Commvault Complete Data Protection across its hybrid environment, Woodward consolidated backups, enabled global deduplication and efficient DASH Copy replication to larger data centers and AWS, and added ransomware‑safe copies. The result: RPOs for large jobs fell to 24 hours (from a week+), SQL backup windows dropped from >24 hours to 15 minutes, admin time fell by ~10 hours/week, data was reduced by 70%+ enabling longer retention and faster restores, and the solution scaled smoothly through a fourfold data increase.

Woodward, Inc.

Loren Leveque

Sr. Manager IT and System Networking