Supported Data Backup Applications

ExaGrid offers a turnkey plug-and-play disk backup appliance with deduplication that sits behind existing backup applications and enables faster and more reliable data back up and recovery. Click on each data backup application below to learn more and download whitepapers, solution briefs and customer case studies.

ExaGrid supports the following vendors and their backup applications:

Acronis

The ExaGrid system supports cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup using Acronis Backup & Recovery backup software. ExaGrid also supports the ability to replicate your Acronis Backup & Recovery backups to a second site for offsite disaster recovery protection.

BridgeHead

The ExaGrid system leverages the ability of BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management (HDM) to perform MEDITECH backups to disk, and adds the benefits of ExaGrid’s compression and byte-level data deduplication to save you money over standard disk solutions.  ExaGrid also supports the ability to replicate your backups to a second site for offsite disaster recovery protection.

CommVault Simpana

ExaGrid is a certified member in the CommVault(R) PartnerAdvantage(TM) Technology Partners program. ExaGrid's cost-effective disk-based backup appliance is certified with CommVault Simpana(TM) Backup & Recovery software.

Computer Associates (CA) ARCserve Backup

ExaGrid Systems is a Technology Partner through the Computer Associates Partner Program. ExaGrid has completed compatibility testing with ARCserve and is ca smart certified -- providing the ARCserve customer a highly cost-effective backup solution and alternative to tape backup.

EMC NetWorker

The ExaGrid system supports cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup using NetWorker backup software from EMC. ExaGrid Systems is an EMC Velocity Technology ISV Program Partner and provides the EMC customer with a data backup solution that saves them money and time.

HP Data Protector

The ExaGrid system supports cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup using HP Data Protector backup software. ExaGrid also supports the ability to replicate your HP Data Protector backups to a second site for off-site disaster recovery protection.

IBM i / LaserVault UBD

IBM i (AS/400, iSeries, and System i) users can quickly and efficiently back up their data on the most cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup system available on the market, using the LaserVault Universal Backup Device (UBD) as a gateway. By backing up to an ExaGrid appliance via a LaserVault UBD, IBM iSeries customers can gain improved backup performance, fast and reliable data restores, and rapid recovery from system or site disasters.

IBM TSM

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM) customers can quickly and efficiently back up their data on the most cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup system available on the market.  By backing up to an ExaGrid appliance, TSM customers can gain improved backup performance, fast and reliable data restores, and superior scalability to maintain performance as data grows over time.

Idera SQL Safe

The ExaGrid System supplements Idera™ SQLSafe™’s backup capabilities, providing improved data protection management, fast and reliable online data restores, enhanced security, and rapid data recovery from system or site disasters.

Microsoft SQL Server

ExaGrid is an intelligent disk-based data protection solution that works in conjunction with Microsoft SQL Backup to provide cost-effective, disk-based data protection. You can leverage your current technology investments while supplementing or replacing your tape library with an ExaGrid disk-based solution.

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)

Customers can simply send Oracle backups via the RMAN utility set directly to an ExaGrid disk-based backup system, bypassing the use of a backup agent.

PHD Virtual Backup

The partnership between ExaGrid Systems and PHD Virtual Backup provides a cost-effective disk-based backup solution that maximizes data reduction and scales to meet the needs of demanding enterprise environments.  ExaGrid’s and PHD Virtual Backup’s virtual server data protection solutions allows customers to utilize PHD Virtual Backup in VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer virtual environments on ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system.  This combination provides fast backups and efficient data storage as well as replication to an offsite location for disaster recovery.

DELL/Quest LiteSpeed

The ExaGrid System supplements LiteSpeed’s backup capabilities, providing improved data protection management, fast and reliable online data restores, enhanced security, and rapid data recovery from system or site disasters.

DELL/Quest vRanger

ExaGrid offers VMware customers using Quest's vRanger with the industry's fastest backups and restores, along with tremendously high data deduplication ratios (up to many 1,000's to 1).

RedGate

The ExaGrid System supplements Redgate® SQL Backup Pro’s backup capabilities, providing improved data protection management, fast and reliable online data restores, enhanced security, and rapid data recovery from system or site disasters.

Symantec Backup Exec

ExaGrid Systems is a member of the Symantec Technology Enabled Program. ExaGrid works closely with Symantec to ensure compatibility with Symantec Backup Exec and is the first disk-backup appliance vendor to achieve Symantec’s highest level of qualification for both basic and optimized duplication (replication) with Backup Exec via the OpenStorage Technology (OST) program.

Symantec NetBackup

ExaGrid Systems is a member of the Symantec Technology Enabled Program and the Open Storage API Program. ExaGrid works closely with Symantec to ensure ExaGrid's compatibility with Symantec NetBackup and has achieved Symantec’s highest level of qualification for both basic and optimized duplication (replication) with NetBackup via the OpenStorage Technology (OST) program.

Unitrends

Heterogeneous IT environments combine physical and virtual architectures, multiple operating systems, and platforms. Given these multi-infrastructure environments and data growth rates averaging 30% or more annually, IT organizations are challenged to address scalability and complexity
in cost-effective ways. The joint solution offered by ExaGrid and Unitrends provides IT organizations of all sizes with
many benefits.

UNIX / LINUX File System Data Dumps

ExaGrid customers can simply transfer file system data from Unix or Linux systems to the ExaGrid server, bypassing the use of a backup agent.

Veeam

VMware customers using industry-leading Veeam Backup software can get faster, more reliable backups with ExaGrid’s high-performance, scalable disk-based backup appliance while also integrating quickly and easily with their existing infrastructures. Veeam Backup enables faster, more efficient storage and recovery of virtual machines while ExaGrid's disk-based backup systems serve as the backup target for these virtual machine backups.

VMware Backup

ExaGrid Systems provides cost-effective disk-based backup for VMware environments. ExaGrid's data backup appliance also supports the ability to replicate your VMware backups to a second site for off-site disaster recovery protection.