Case Study: Morrison Hershfield achieves 90% reduction in backup management time with Commvault

Morrison Hershfield Cuts 90% of Backup Management with Commvault and Metallic

Morrison Hershfield, a Markham-based engineering firm with about 1,000 employees across 24 locations, needed to protect 1.6 PB of largely unstructured engineering drawings and images that must be retained indefinitely, plus cloud workloads in Microsoft Office 365 and Azure. Replacing tape and consolidating disparate backup systems while ensuring reliable recovery and cloud coverage were key challenges as the firm scaled.

The firm deployed Commvault Complete Data Protection together with Metallic SaaS Backup & Recovery to provide a single platform for on‑premises, cloud and SaaS backups. The move delivered a 90% cut in backup management time (now ~20 hours/year), a 4x deduplication (shrinking 1.6 PB to ~400 TB) with associated cost savings, seamless cloud protection and replication, easy two‑hour setup, reliable restores, and highly rated vendor support.

Morrison Hershfield

Robert Welsford

IT Manager