Case Study: Takaful Malaysia achieves scalable, cost-saving data protection and faster VM recovery with Commvault

Takaful Malaysia invests in Commvault Software to handle rapid data growth, fully leverage the benefits of virtulization

Takaful Malaysia, a Kuala Lumpur–based Islamic insurer, faced rapidly growing data (from ~7TB to ~20TB) and strict regulatory retention requirements that outstripped its legacy backup infrastructure. The company suffered network congestion because its old solution couldn’t deduplicate at source, required 12 backup servers and three separate products, caused nightly backup overruns, slow user performance, long recovery times, and rising management costs as it moved toward server virtualization.

Takaful deployed Commvault Simpana (Backup & Recovery, Replication and Archive) with source deduplication and virtualization support, consolidating to two backup servers and a single platform. The solution scales to ~80TB, cut storage and network transmissions by 40%, reduced annual license maintenance by ~MYR 200,000 (USD 66,000), shortened backup windows (incremental backups halved), cut VM recovery to 15 minutes (from ~2 hours), and lowered daily backup management time by about 30%.

Takaful Malaysia

Patrick Wong

Chief information officer