Kuwait Petroleum Chooses CommVault Simpana 9

Kuwait
Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has replaced its legacy Symantec NetBackup software
with CommVault
Simpana 9 to meet expanding business, compliance and data management
requirements.

Founded in
1980, KPC is involved in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, ranging from
discovering new reservoirs to delivering fuel and providing petrochemical products. The company, which is fully-owned by Kuwait, is
experiencing rapid growth, which led to a need for centralised data management
to improve RTO/RPO, increase operational efficiencies and respond faster to
compliance requirements.

According to
KPC, Simpana Backup and Recovery software delivers the performance, reliability
and manageability to better protect critical data, which they expect will
double within a year, while accommodating an ever-shrinking backup window.

KPC’s IT
team also relies on Simpana Archive software to streamline management of 15,000
Microsoft Exchange mailboxes while reporting a 30 percent decrease in storage
consumption.

With Simpana
software, KPC now reports being able to safeguard vital applications, including
Microsoft Exchange and Oracle ERP, along with an expanding VMware environment,
and enabling data recoveries in minutes, not hours or days, as it took
previously. According to KPC, any data loss could cost millions of dollars in
revenue, which is why they have chosen CommVault technology to ensure business
continuity.

Fueling Improvements
in Data Reduction and Information Governance
KPC takes advantage of CommVault’s embedded
deduplication software to reduce its redundant data by 60 percent, KPC reports,
which has helped lower storage consumption on its storage devices.

According to
KPC, Simpana software delivers data management improvements across the
company’s entire data center comprising both physical and virtual servers. This
is beneficial given the fact that KPC has virtualised nearly 70 percent
of its environment.

The company
also credits CommVault’s centralised, unified management platform with
increasing operational efficiencies through simpler, faster daily backups and
restores. Meanwhile, integrated reporting streamlines compliance audits in
keeping with KPC’s evolving information governance requirements.

IT
administration has been improved and according to KPC, productivity has been
increased, since disk-based data backups, including individual emails, can be
quickly and easily restored without requiring help-desk intervention.

Khaled
Al-Faili, senior IT systems analyst, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said: "CommVault Simpana software suits our data
management needs perfectly. As the only truly single platform solution, the
software enabled us to consolidate multiple operations under one umbrella,
which is extremely important. It’s like we dumped our clunky phone, fax machine
and computer for a single, high-tech mobile device. We expect to double our storage capacity in
the near future and are totally confident that Simpana software will scale to
meet our growth objectives while continuing to help us increase operational
efficiencies."

Qais AlDoub, senior IT systems analyst, Kuwait
Petroleum Corporation said: "Prior
to CommVault software, we faced a lot of difficulties managing our backups and
restoring data was a nightmare, so we had a poor RPO and RTO window. Not any
more, though, as Simpana software’s intuitive GUI makes backup and recovery as
easy as a click of a button. So many of the applications we protect with
CommVault technology are crucial to day-to-day operations, and we could risk
millions of dollars if we lost any of this data. Thankfully, we’re fully
confident in Simpana software, so backing up and recovering data is worry free."