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ST. MARY'S REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
STREAMLINES DATA BACKUP WITH EXAGRID
St. Mary's Experiences 50 to 1 Data Compression and Significantly Reduces Backup Window
Westborough, - Mass. August 15, 2006 - ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in Intelligent Disk-based Backup™, today announced that Lewiston, Maine-based St. Mary's Regional Medical Center has selected ExaGrid® to streamline and improve its data backup.
Seeking alternatives to its existing tape-based backup system, St. Mary's selected ExaGrid to reduce its 13-hour nightly backup window and to simplify its backup process. Before installing ExaGrid, St. Mary's backed up nearly 500GB of data to multiple tape libraries, with key servers and Notes databases backed up to disk. With ExaGrid, St. Mary's is experiencing 50 to 1 data compression and has reduced its backup window from over 13 hours to six.
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center serves Maine's Androscoggin County. Along with its 233-bed acute care facility, St. Mary's provides physician services and operates the state's largest nursing home, an independent living center for the elderly and disabled, and satellite occupational health offices.
"Before ExaGrid, we were parsing out our backups over multiple servers and different storage devices across the network, just to get our nightly backups completed," said Joe Longtin, senior network engineer for St. Mary's Regional Medical Center. "We really like the fact that our backups are now done on a single system, and we save a lot of time because we're not backing up the same data over and over again. We're only backing up the data that actually changes."
ExaGrid combines 2 to 1 data compression for the last backup along with unique byte-level delta data reduction that reduces data from all previous backups by 20 to 1. ExaGrid's byte-level delta technology stores only deltas from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies, significantly reducing the amount of data stored, saving costly disk space and providing fast restores.
"Previously, we could hold only about a week's worth of data on disk," said Longtin. "Now, we're retaining a couple of month's worth of data. Also, restores have been very fast and very easy. We've got plenty of room for growth with ExaGrid. Should we need more storage space, we can just add more Repository Servers. It's a very simple process."
St. Mary's installed a second ExaGrid system off site to eliminate tape and for faster recovery in the event of a disaster. ExaGrid is extremely cost effective as a second site because its byte-level delta technology only moves changes, requiring minimal WAN bandwidth.
"St. Mary's is a classic example of how ExaGrid's unique approach to data reduction significantly reduces existing backup windows and disk space requirements," said Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. "ExaGrid's disk-based backup solution is an extremely efficient way to eliminate cumbersome tape backup systems, and that translates into serious savings both in terms of time and resources."
About the ExaGrid Technology
ExaGrid is a turnkey plug-and-play solution that sits behind existing backup applications and enables faster and more reliable backups and restores. Customers report that backup windows are reduced by 30 to 80%. ExaGrid's unique byte-level delta data reduction and last backup compression, coupled with high quality SATA drives, is on average about 25-30% the price of standard drives without data reduction. This unique approach reduces the amount of disk space needed by at least 20 to 1.
About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Located in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader in Intelligent Disk-based Backup™ solutions. A scalable system that works with existing backup applications, ExaGrid 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 innovative approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups along with byte-level delta data reduction technology for all previous backups. Customers can deploy ExaGrid 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 or visit www.exagrid.com.
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