Commvault,a
leader in enterprise data protection and information management, today
announced that Quanticate, a leading, global, data-focused Clinical
Research Organization (CRO), has deployed Commvault software to ensure
sustained confidentiality, integrity, availability and compliance with
global legislation for all its electronic data assets. The deployment of
the Commvault solution enables Quanticate's continued commitment to the
highest caliber of data security and integrity when managing clinical
trial data for the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. With a
single platform, more efficient backup, recovery and archiving has been
achieved as well as functionality to prepare for a cloud-based business
continuity strategy to be developed in the future.
As a global CRO, Quanticate
enables major pharmaceutical companies to take their products to market.
It manages the lifecycle of its customers' clinical trial data, from
initial trial design and data collection, through to the final delivery
to the pharmaceutical sponsor ready for submission to regulators. As the
pharmaceutical sector is one of the most highly regulated industries in
the world, Quanticate needs to ensure complete data integrity
throughout its period of custody as well as retaining all study data in
an accessible form for a minimum of 15 years after a trial ends.
Prior to the Commvault
implementation, Quanticate faced excessive backup windows and a
fragmented recovery processes, causing complexity and time costs.
Combined with rapid data growth, Quanticate elected to review its data
management strategy before it impeded the business' potential to expand.
Commvault software's source-side deduplication capabilities
significantly reduce bandwidth needs during backup or recovery, making
data transfer much more cost efficient and reducing average back up
times by approximately 75%. It also negated the need for couriers to
transfer off-site backups between primary and DR sites, substantially
reducing recovery time objectives (RTOs).
"Ensuring the integrity and
management of our customers' data is one of the key elements that
differentiates our business as a data-focused CRO and ensures we can
provide the highest quality of service," said James Mackellar,
CIO at Quanticate. "The combined de-duplication, compression, archiving
and accessibility capability that Commvault provided us meant that from
a business perspective we can prove our compliance quicker, with
greater visibility for our clients and hence do more business.
Information security and compliance is imperative to our clients'
success as well as our own. Our data management strategy reflects our
commitment in this area supported by a complete ISO 27001 compliant
Information Security Management System (ISMS)".
In the short-term future,
Quanticate also plans to take further advantage of the opportunities
that cloud has to offer – especially the potential for hybrid data
center and private cloud strategies - with parts of their infrastructure
being on-premise while other virtual machines reside elsewhere. By
being able to seamlessly migrate data and virtual machines without
compromising security or data backup, it is possible to develop dynamic
capacity planning with confidence. Commvault also enables the use of
secure, encrypted cloud storage locations for long-term data retention
rather than having to invest in an ever-growing storage network. Further
resilience is possible by using multiple cloud providers in the future.
"Being able to rehearse disaster
recovery in the cloud for example, could provide considerable cost
savings," said Mackellar. "Whilst we are still in the exploratory phase
with regards to this use case for cloud services, it is reassuring that
our Commvault solution can facilitate this and significantly reduce our
sunk costs in idle hardware."
"The Commvault solutions portfolio
has been designed to not only protect data, but to transform businesses
with intelligent data management and increased efficiency, and
Quanticate is another example of a major global Healthcare industry
organization that we can deliver these benefits to," said Bruce Park, Area Vice President UK & Ireland,
Commvault. "The solution provides a truly holistic approach to
protecting, managing and accessing data making it the perfect fit for
Quanticate's needs now and on its future journey to the cloud."