Whitepapers:
Optimizing Backup and Data Protection in Virtualized Environments

Abstract: The promise of maximizing IT investments while minimizing complexity has resulted in widespread adoption of server virtualization. In fact, VMware users are now deploying nearly half of their new servers as virtual servers, rather than as physical servers. That said, rapid adoption of server virtualization has brought with it a variety of challenges in backup and data protection. This white paper examines the return on investment of server virtualization and its impact on backups and overall data protection.

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Achieving Cost Savings in Backup with Deduplication

Abstract: The environment for all businesses has changed dramatically in the past year. This means significantly increased scrutiny of IT budgets that were already being closely watched. New projects will have to pass the test of clear need and the question will be asked "can you do without." While many IT projects will be reduced along with budgets, one truism remains: the amount of data an organization creates and must retain continues to grow. This whitepaper discusses this paradox and offers a way to eliminate it with real-world examples of cost savings and results related to disk backup with deduplication.

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Webcasts:
How to Avoid the Deduplication Tax On Your Virtual Backups

Featured Speakers:
George Pradel - Director, Strategic Alliances - Vizioncore, Inc.
Jeff Crum - Senior Product Manager - ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

Taxes were a hot topic, of course, in the recent elections. But when you're crafting a backup strategy, new technologies like data deduplication can lead to substantial performance and scalability taxes if your implementation isn't done right - especially in virtual server and storage environments. Still, if you are considering a better strategy for protecting your virtual environment, data deduplication will be a key ingredient in that strategy.

View this webcast sponsored by ExaGrid and Vizioncore, to gain a better understanding of how to reap the benefits of data deduplication while avoiding the "dedupe tax" on protecting your virtual environment.

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An Industry Analyst Perspective: Game-changing Capabilities for Disk-based Backup with Deduplication

Featured Speakers:
Jeff Boles - Senior Analyst/Director, Validation Services - Taneja Group
Marc Crespi - Vice President, Product Management - ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

Join Taneja Group’s Jeff Boles and ExaGrid’s Marc Crespi as they discuss the findings of Taneja Group’s Technology Validation Report. End-users consistently state that they need more than feature parity with traditional backup infrastructures: they need simple deployment, solid delivery on clear performance promises, and greater management capability than the tape systems the disk backup solutions are replacing. This Technology Validation webcast by the experts at Taneja Group takes a deep dive into the technology, showcasing real-world test results and uncovering the end user benefits of a leading disk backup product with data deduplication: the ExaGrid EX5000. The Taneja Group’s Technology Validation reports on product capabilities and performance help end-users to understand what products and features will benefit them the most.

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Data Sheets:
ExaGrid Product Overview

ExaGrid Product Overview Data Sheet

ExaGrid Product Line

ExaGrid EX Series Product Line Data Sheet

Customer Success Stories:

7-Eleven Stores 7-Eleven Stores Ring Up Better Backups with ExaGrid "One of the things we wanted out of a disk-based backup system was a 'set it and forget it' type of product. The ExaGrid has more than lived up to our expectations. Each day, we quickly check the ExaGrid to ensure that everything ran smoothly and then double-check the amount of available disk space, and that's it. We're confident in the system and it's taken the hassle out of our backups."

Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid "ExaGrid's approach to data de-duplication made the most sense to us and it has been very efficient. In fact, we're seeing as much as 23 to 1 reduction of our data."