Case Study: Leipziger Messe achieves 80% reduction in data‑management time and 85% lower support costs with Commvault

Leipziger Messe strengthens disaster recovery mechanism and ensures seamless event operations with Commvault

Leipziger Messe, a leading German integrated event service provider, needed a more reliable and efficient disaster recovery solution to support time‑sensitive trade fairs and exhibitions. Their legacy IBM TSM setup caused lengthy backups that ran into office hours, lacked deduplication, and could not reliably protect critical technologies such as VMware, MongoDB, MariaDB and HCL Domino—creating high storage demands, operational disruption, and steep support costs.

They implemented Commvault Complete Data Protection with partner WBS‑IT, consolidating backups for all applications on a single platform, automating daily encrypted offsite DR copies, and integrating with NetApp storage. The 20‑day migration cut backup management time by 80 (now <2 hours/week), reduced support costs by 85% (from ~$150k to $23k/year), improved backup speed by 50%, and ensured dependable data availability with minimal employee disruption.

Leipziger Messe

Sebastian Kober

Department Manager for IT Infrastructure and Event Services