Case Study: Spark New Zealand achieves NZ$2.5M OPEX savings and slashes 30 man‑hours/week with Commvault HyperScale Appliances

Spark New Zealand saves millions of OPEX dollars with Commvault HyperScale Appliances

Spark New Zealand, the country’s largest telecom and digital services provider, faced a costly, resource‑intensive backup environment made up of legacy systems and multiple vendors that made restores slow and daily operations difficult. The mix of old backup products and storage hardware created high OPEX and management overhead, blocking Spark’s goals for data availability and sustainability.

Spark deployed Commvault HyperScale Appliances (with Commvault Professional Services handling design and migration) to consolidate backups and simplify vendor management. The modernization cut backup operations by 30 man‑hours per week, reduced restore time dramatically (from 15 days to about four hours), saved an estimated NZ$2.5 million in OPEX over three years, and lowered data center space and energy use while enabling teams to monitor and recover their own backups.

Spark New Zealand

Prasheel Singh

Chapter Lead, Data Storage and Retrieval, Network and IT Infrastructure