Case Study: GameStop achieves 70% reduction in backup and recovery operating expenses with Druva Cloud Platform

GameStop® leverages Druva to transform data protection and lower costs

GameStop, a Fortune 500 retailer with over 7,200 stores worldwide, set a 24-month cloud-first mandate to modernize IT after its legacy backup environment—nine disparate solutions, tape-based workflows, and heavy replication—became costly, complex, and hard to manage, costing more than $1.5M annually and requiring specialized expertise to meet recovery SLAs.

Using the Druva Cloud Platform (inSync for endpoints/cloud apps and Phoenix for servers and VMs), GameStop moved to a cloud-native, centralized data protection model that simplified compliance and operations. The company achieved a 70% reduction in backup and recovery operating expenses, increased its virtual-machine protection footprint by 20%, saved more than $1M in Europe through optimized data residency handling, and gained faster backups/restores and lower operational complexity.

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Chris Fernon

Director of Enterprise Technology