Faster and Simpler Restores
Layne has found that using ExaGrid to restore data is much more efficient than using a tape library. “It’s a simpler process now – there are no tapes to recall, our data remains in our custody, and there are no time-consuming tape inventories. The data is restored much faster using ExaGrid. Never again will I have to grapple with potential tape or tape device incompatibilities, outdated drivers, or cleaning cartridges. Tape media degradation occurs over time and can be accelerated if the tapes are stored improperly, which can result in data loss and/or corruption.”
ExaGrid’s award-winning scale-out architecture provides customers with a fixed-length backup window regardless of data growth. Its unique disk-cache Landing Zone allows for the fastest backups and retains the most recent backup in its full undeduplicated form, enabling the fastest restores.
ExaGrid’s appliance models can be mixed and matched into a single scale-out system allowing a full backup of up to 2.7PB with a combined ingest rate of 488TB/hr, in a single system. The appliances automatically join the scale-out system. Each appliance includes the appropriate amount of processor, memory, disk, and bandwidth for the data size. By adding compute with capacity, the backup window remains fixed in length as the data grows. Automatic load balancing across all repositories allows for full utilization of all appliances. Data is deduplicated into an offline repository, and additionally, data is globally deduplicated across all repositories. This combination of capabilities in a turnkey appliance makes the ExaGrid system easy to install, manage, and scale. ExaGrid’s architecture provides lifetime value and investment protection that no other architecture can match.