Case Study: Hunter Industries achieves 90%+ reduction in backup management time and reliable restores with Quantum Corporation's Scalar tape library

Hunter Industries - Customer Case Study

Hunter Industries, a global manufacturer of irrigation and water‑management systems, was struggling to protect rapidly growing proprietary engineering and multimedia assets. With data increasing 30–40% annually, their legacy tape system produced incomplete backups, failed restores and required 10–15 hours per week of manual tape handling, putting critical data at risk.

Hunter deployed a Quantum Scalar i500 tape library with iLayer software (later upgraded to HP LTO‑5 drives), CommVault Simpana 8 and a dedicated HP backup server. The solution delivered dependable restores, cut backup administration to under 30 minutes a week (a >90% reduction), reduced tape media costs by about $2,100/month, and now reliably protects roughly 17 TB of weekly data (≈10 TB full).

Hunter Industries

Jeff Winckler

Network Administrator