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Davida Dinerman |
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ExaGrid Surpasses 200 Customer Installations
Best-in-Class Disk-Based Backup System with Data De-duplication
Installed in Customer Locations Throughout the World
Westborough, - Mass. March 11, 2008- ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (http://www.exagrid.com), the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication, today announced that it has surpassed the 200 customer installation mark worldwide. This is the industry’s second largest installed customer base for disk-based backup systems with data de-duplication. ExaGrid’s expanding number of customer installations is further evidence of the rapidly growing list of companies deciding to either augment or replace tape with a disk-based backup system.
“We looked at several different systems and even considered building our own, but no solution could match the ExaGrid in terms of price, data de-duplication and support,” said Jon Mahlbacher, Network Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a Virginia-based, 1,500 employee systems engineering, technical, and managed services firm. “It all came together when we realized we could deploy a two-site ExaGrid system and improve the speed and reliability of our local backups while gaining the high availability we were looking for in our disaster recovery plan.”
“Fifty-one percent of ExaGrid’s customers have a primary site ExaGrid and still make tapes for offsite storage, while the other forty-nine percent have an ExaGrid at the primary site and an ExaGrid at an offsite location entirely eliminating tape. This shows customers’ progress toward complete tape elimination,” said Marc Crespi, VP of Product Management with ExaGrid Systems, Inc.”
ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system works with existing backup applications such as Symantec BackupExec, Symantec NetBackup, CommVault Galaxy, CA ArcServe, EMC Networker and others.
“Worldwide customer adoption of the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup system continues to expand rapidly,” said Bill Andrews, president and CEO of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. “By surpassing the 200 customer installation mark, ExaGrid has the second largest group of installed customers enjoying the benefits of a disk-based backup system with data de-duplication. With the highest performance and most scalable product at the best price, ExaGrid is a fast-growing leader in the hot global market for disk-based backup.”
ExaGrid customers come from key industries such as:Healthcare, Legal, Engineering Services, Manufacturing, Education, Financial Services, and Federal, State and Local Government. At 34 user stories and growing, ExaGrid has more published success stories with actual customer quotes than any other vendor of disk-based backup with data de-duplication. Read ExaGrid’s real-world customer success stories via: http://www.exagrid.com/why_exagrid/customer_success_stories.asp.
About ExaGrid’s Technology
The ExaGrid system is a turnkey, plug-and-play solution that works with existing backup applications and enables faster and more reliable backups and restores. Customers report that backup time is reduced by 30 to 80 percent over traditional tape backup. ExaGrid’s byte-level data de-duplication technology and most recent backup compression, coupled with high-quality SATA storage, reduces the amount of disk space needed by a range of 10:1 to 50:1, or more, resulting in a price about the same as tape, and about 25% the price of standard disk storage.
About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Located in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader in cost-effective disk-based backup solutions. A highly scalable system that works with existing backup applications, the ExaGrid system is ideal for companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backup windows. ExaGrid’s innovative approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups along with byte-level data de-duplication technology for all previous backups. Customers can deploy the ExaGrid system at a primary site and at a second site to supplement or eliminate offsite tapes with a live data repository or for disaster recovery.
For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985, visit www.exagrid.com. or send us an email.
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