Cleveland Indians Hit a Grand Slam With CommVault Simpana

As one of the top five most technically advanced clubs in Major League Baseball, the Cleveland Indians have deployed CommVault Simpana software to maximize the availability and reliability of more than 18TBs of online video and operational data across its virtualized infrastructure.

The Cleveland Indians were among one of the first teams in Major League Baseball to develop a state-of-the-art video system to capture nearly 2,600 games played by all teams throughout the season for use in training and advanced scouting.

In addition to its sophisticated video database, the team also relies heavily on Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and SQL Server to support financial, retail and back-office applications, as well as VMware to improve server utilization.

When its previous Symantec software couldn’t keep pace with its burgeoning backup and recovery demands, the Cleveland Indians switched to CommVault software. By doing so, the team now leverages CommVault’s 64-bit architecture and Singular Information Management® approach to data management. The team claims that this allows their IT department to significantly improve application performance and cut unnecessary administrative overhead from 45 minutes a day to less than 30 minutes a week.

Simpana Software Covers the Bases while Keeping Pace with Rapid Data Growth
With CommVault Simpana Backup software and tight integration with NetApp, the Cleveland Indians have reportedly slashed the team’s backup window in half. Also, according to the team it now takes less than five minutes to restore a video clip that once took more than an hour to locate and retrieve.

As storage requirements continue to double, server utilization plays an increasingly important role. Using Simpana software to manage its 48 VMware systems helps the team increase data availability, better utilize its existing disk-to-disk-to-tape infrastructure and eliminate the need to deploy additional, expensive primary storage, thereby reducing additional hardware costs.

The ability to manage all CommVault functionality from a centralized console enables the team to do more with its data, in less time and with significantly less administrative overhead.

Plans to activate additional CommVault modules and features in the Simpana platform include Simpana Deduplication and Replication software to support remote disaster recovery at the team’s spring training facility in Goodyear, Arizona.

"The CommVault Simpana architecture offered a future-proof solution that could scale to meet our data storage growth demands while making it easy to add more functionality as our needs dictated. CommVault’s vendor-neutral stance let us avoid vendor lock-in. We appreciate how well Simpana software works with all platforms. Tight integration with NetApp saves us a ton of time and money while cutting our backup window in half. I want to do more things with my data and CommVault gives us the solution that can scale as our environment evolves. Simpana software’s single-platform approach to data management will make it easier for the Cleveland Indians to extract maximum business value from our data," said Whitney Kuszmaul, network manager, Cleveland Indians.

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