Case Study: Fortune 500 Energy Services Provider achieves nearly 50% cost savings and 99% backup success with OpenText Data Protector

Data Protector seamlessly replaced Veritas NetBackup delivering close to 50% cost savings in a large-scale, complex, hybrid environment

A Fortune 500 energy services provider in Texas managing a central datacenter, a disaster-recovery site and 40+ remote locations faced rapidly rising backup costs as data grew about 30% annually. With 1.3 PB of weekly full backups across a hybrid mix of physical and virtual servers, the organization needed a Windows-based alternative to replace cost-prohibitive Veritas NetBackup while preserving backup integrity, meeting a 24-hour backup window, shrinking the physical footprint and reducing overall costs.

After a three-month proof-of-concept, the company migrated to Micro Focus Data Protector over six months, repurposing existing hardware. The move delivered a 99% backup success rate, close to 50% savings on software license and maintenance, improved deduplication with HPE StoreOnce (reducing storage needs), simpler administration and built-in reporting that eliminated a third‑party tool, plus strong vendor support and seamless remote management during COVID.