Case Study: University of Leicester achieves £1 million savings and 1,800 hours reclaimed protecting research data with Commvault

University of Leicester saves £1 million and 1,800 hours

The University of Leicester, a research-led higher-education institution supporting thousands of students and extensive scientific programs, faced growing risk from rapidly expanding data volumes, complex mixed IT environments, GDPR compliance requirements, and long, resource‑intensive backup windows that threatened research continuity and the student experience.

By deploying Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery with Commvault Activate and IntelliSnap across a hybrid Cloudian/Azure storage tier, the university consolidated protection for 1.6 PB of backups, achieved 98% deduplication (reducing storage needs from 15 PB to 1.6 PB), cut the full backup window from four weeks to 36 hours, raised backup success to 96%, eliminated about £1 million in storage costs and saved roughly 1,800 IT hours while improving GDPR discovery and ransomware recovery.

University of Leicester

Mark Penny

Infrastructure Systems Specialist