CommVault Galaxy Customer Grant Thornton Recognized For IT Cost Savings With SearchStorage.com Innovator Award.Business/Technology Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2002 Global Accounting Firm Cited as Winner in TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. Category for Networked Storage Innovations--Expected to Save Millions of Dollars CommVault(R) Systems customer Grant Thornton LLP  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , the leading global accounting, tax and management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects firm dedicated to serving the needs of middle-market companies, has been awarded a SearchStorage.com Innovator Award for the achievement of several hundred thousand dollars in IT cost savings. Created by IT media company TechTarget, the SearchStorage.com Innovator Awards recognize excellence in the use of storage technology in medium and large-scale organizations. Grant Thornton received its award at TechTarget's Storage Management Conference here this week. TechTarget selected Grant Thornton for TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) recognition based on significant savings achieved through the firm's consolidation of its storage architecture. Grant Thornton has eliminated 40 of its 44 Exchange servers and moved to a single database architecture with SAN underpinnings. The firm has calculated resulting annual savings of $850,000. "Grant Thornton's story demonstrates the cost-saving benefits of consolidation," said Paul Gillin, editor in chief, TechTarget, and chair of the SearchStorage.com Innovator Awards. "The switch to networked storage allowed many of these infrastructure changes to happen and will enable Grant Thornton to save millions of dollars." "Lowering our cost-per-megabyte has required us to rethink automation, storage management and staff deployment, but we could not have achieved such dramatic savings without our partnership with CommVault Systems CommVault Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CVLT) is a United States based company specializing in data and storage management software. Created in 1988 as a development group in AT&T's Bell Labs, the group produced AT&T's in-house backup software, Automatic Backup, Archive and Recovery and their Galaxy solution," said Grant Thornton IT Director Dave Johnson Dave Johnson may refer to:
"We're delighted to congratulate Grant Thornton on being recognized for achieving our market's Holy Grail Holy Grail: see Grail, Holy. A very desired object or outcome that borders on a sacred quest. There are several Holy Grails in the computer business. : dramatically reduced TCO," said CommVault CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Bob Hammer Howard Robert Hammer (* March 3 1930 in Indianapolis) is an US-american jazz musician (pianist and arranger). Hammer studied at the Michigan State University and at Manhattan School of Music before taking private lessons by composer Henry Brant. . "We're proud to have contributed to their success. With Galaxy, our enterprise customers can enforce policy-based data protection across operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and applications, simplifying management of complex networks and reducing the human costs associated with maintaining data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. ." As an essential component of enterprise data management systems, Galaxy reduces the need for human mediation in the data backup and restoration processes and allows administrators to recover lost or corrupted data quickly and with minimal operational downtime. CommVault Galaxy software benefits include: -- Simple -- "all-in-one," centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. , browser-based interface designed to simplify management, training and installation, as well as provide a single, streamlined view of global data resources. Galaxy Storage Policies let IT staff logically manage SAN, NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular & LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. data in complex enterprise networks -- Speedy -- high-performance, fast data restoration to business users at the application level, including LAN-free, Server-free and Serverless data protection schemes -- Seamless -- unified product; built from the ground up to seamlessly scale in the most popular storage networking environments About Grant Thornton Grant Thornton is the leading global accounting, tax and management consulting firm dedicated to serving the needs of middle-market companies. Founded in 1924, Grant Thornton serves public and private middle-market clients through 44 offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , and in more than 650 offices in 109 countries through Grant Thornton International. Grant Thornton's Web site address is www.GrantThornton.com. About CommVault Systems CommVault Systems provides unified enterprise data management solutions to ensure high performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. The company's singular focus is creating and implementing fast, reliable and easy-to-use solutions to meet customers' data management requirements. The company's software products seamlessly ensure the reliable, rapid restoration of files, business-critical applications and today's most popular databases. Information on CommVault is available on the World Wide Web at www.commvault.com or by calling (732) 870-4000. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey Oceanport is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 5,807. Oceanport was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1920, from portions of Eatontown Township (now in the United States. About the SearchStorage.com Innovator Awards IT media company TechTarget created the SearchStorage.com Innovator Awards to recognize excellence in the use of storage technology in medium and large-scale organizations. The SearchStorage.com Innovator Awards are presented twice yearly, at TechTarget's invitation-only storage conferences, Storage Management (March 20-22, 2002) and Storage Decisions (September 17-19, 2002). About SearchStorage.com SearchStorage.com, a TechTarget Web site, is the number-one media outlet for storage professionals, providing more than 125,000 storage-focused with original storage-specific editorial, interactive educational features, expert storage advice, and up-to-date storage news, information, and resources from across the Web. SearchStorage.com also features eight e-mail newsletters, delivering the latest strategic and tactical information to help members make better decisions about their storage implementations. For more information on SearchStorage.com, please visit www.searchstorage.com. (c) 2002 CommVault Systems, Inc. CommVault, CommVault Systems, CommVault Galaxy and the CommVault logo are trademarks and may be registered trademarks in some jurisdictions of CommVault Systems, Inc. |
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