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Davida Dinerman or Amy Burnis |
Wayne St. Amand |
EXAGRID INTRODUCES EXAGRID 2.3 DISK-BASED BACKUP SYSTEM
Additional Data Restore Features for Disaster Recovery,
Enhanced Flexibility for SQL Databases, Expanded Backup Application Support
Westborough, - Mass. August 22, 2006 - ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in Intelligent Disk-based Backup™ solutions, today announced the availability of ExaGrid 2.3. ExaGrid® is the industry's most cost effective disk-based backup solution and is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup. ExaGrid works with existing backup applications to provide faster and more reliable backups and restores. With ExaGrid, customers can experience a 30 to 80% reduction in their backup windows. ExaGrid's unique byte-level delta data reduction and last backup compression, along with high quality of SATA drives, delivers turnkey disk-based backup at approximately 30% the price of standard drives without data reduction.
ExaGrid 2.3 delivers additional data restore options for disaster recovery, optimized backup of Microsoft® SQL databases, and expanded support for backup applications such as CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec NetBackup and CommVault Galaxy.
"Mid-sized and small enterprise companies are looking for cost effective, disk-based backup solutions that are scalable and can work with their existing applications quickly and seamlessly," said Bill Andrews, president and CEO of ExaGrid. "Customers use ExaGrid to backup data at their primary site while still creating offsite tape sets. Many of our customers also choose to deploy a second system to eliminate offsite tape. ExaGrid 2.3 provides industry-leading functionality in the area of disk-based backup, with more flexible features to meet the unique needs of our customers."
"We back up a terabyte of data and are quickly growing. With the ExaGrid system, we were able to replace our old tape library, which was using twenty tapes a month, with ExaGrid," said Greg Bosworth, director of IT at Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. "Also, the ExaGrid system works with our existing CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup so transitioning was easy."
ExaGrid 2.3 includes a number of significant product enhancements, including:
- Selective data copied to a second site system - Allows customers to select the portion of their onsite backup data they want transferred to their second-site ExaGrid system for data restore for disaster recovery. For example, a customer may choose to place their database and email information on disk instead of tape at a second site for more rapid disaster recovery. By allowing only certain data or business applications to be copied to the second site, a much smaller system can be deployed at the second site location.
- Optimized SQL share - Provides an optimized disk-based target for the direct backup of Microsoft® SQL databases, offering customers tremendous flexibility in how they back up their important databases. Customers can perform a SQL dump directly to ExaGrid to be backed up, eliminating the step of dumping to primary disk. This takes the backup of the SQL database out of the nightly backup window resulting in a shorter backup window.
- Enhanced support for popular backup applications - Supports CommVault Galaxy version 6.1, along with the latest versions of CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec NetBackup, and CommVault Galaxy version 5.9.
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 to 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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