Case Study: UConn Health achieves 85% storage cost reduction and $20M capex avoidance with Commvault

UConn Health Reduces Storage Costs by Up to 85 Percent and Realizes Hybrid Cloud Goals

UConn Health, an academic medical center in Farmington, CT, needed to shrink its on‑premises data center footprint, protect massive and distributed research and clinical data, ensure rapid access for studies, and improve recovery after incidents—all while avoiding a costly new secondary data center. Facing fragmented backup tools and past data loss, the organization sought a simpler, more flexible approach to safeguard 3.2 petabytes of information across hybrid environments.

Using Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery with NetApp Cloud Backup and Microsoft Azure, UConn Health consolidated protection under a single solution, reused existing storage, and accelerated its cloud migration. The results: avoidance of a $20 million data center build, up to 85% lower storage costs for 1.75 PB of research data, a 20% reduction in average cloud server cost, $400,000 saved by finishing migration early, and smoother support for virtual desktops and thousands of servers, VMs, and endpoints.

UConn Health

Michael Catrini

Assistant Vice President