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Davida Dinerman |
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ExaGrid Systems Continues Strong Sales Growth
and Establishes Worldwide Distribution
Westborough, - Mass. July 30, 2007- ExaGrid Systems, Inc., (www.exagrid.com) the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication, today announced that sales for the second quarter ending June 30, 2007 were up 115% compared to Q2 2006.
Along with strong sales results, the company continued to execute in a variety of important areas during the quarter. Key achievements in Q2 2007 include the following:
- Executive appointments: Christopher Bishop and Yee-ching Chao joined the ExaGrid Systems senior management team, as vice president of worldwide sales and vice president of engineering, respectively. Bishop and Chao each bring more than 25 years of senior management experience to the ExaGrid team.
- Worldwide distribution: ExaGrid launched sales and marketing efforts into AsiaPac. In addition, ExaGrid expanded its US presence with new offices in Southern California; Dallas, TX; and Atlanta, GA.
- New Value Added Resellers: Six new value added resellers (VARs) joined ExaGrid’s Reseller Partner Program during the quarter.
- Many new competitive customer wins in key industry verticals: ExaGrid continues to win against its competitors, gaining new customers in key industries such as, healthcare; financial services; engineering services; manufacturing; education and municipal government. For more customer-related information visit: Customer Success Stories.
- Product enhancements: In Q2, ExaGrid announced that its Disk-based Backup system now supports EMC NetWorker™ software. EMC NetWorker joins a growing list of leading backup applications supported by ExaGrid. Supported, test-certified, applications include: CA ARCserve®, CommVault® Galaxy™, Symantec Backup Exec™, Symantec Veritas NetBackup™ and Microsoft SQL® "Dumps."
- Expanding industry partnerships and co-marketing: In Q2 ExaGrid continued joint sales and marketing campaigns with several backup software leaders, including: Symantec, CommVault and CA. ExaGrid’s on-demand Webcasts with CommVault and Symantec are available now via: CommVault: http://www.bitpipe.com/rlist/org/1184940884_295.html Symantec: http://www.eseminarslive.com/article2/0,2290,2144738,00.asp
"ExaGrid continues to be a fast-growing leader in the disk-based backup market," said Bill Andrews, president and CEO of ExaGrid Systems. "With key new executive hires, expanded US channel and the addition of AsiaPac distribution partners, ExaGrid is taking advantage of the hot global market for disk-based backup solutions."
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 patented byte-level data de-duplication technology and most recent backup compression, coupled with high-quality SATA storage, is on average 25 to 30 percent the price of standard disk storage without data de-duplication. This unique approach reduces the amount of disk space needed by a range of 10 to 50 to 1, or more.
About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication. A highly scalable system that works with existing backup applications, the ExaGrid system is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backup windows. ExaGrid’s patented 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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