Unique Architecture Proves to be the Answer
“We liked the ExaGrid architecture for so many reasons. It was during our transition project time when Dell acquired EMC, and we contemplated buying Data Domain, because we thought it might work better. The concern was that their architecture is almost the same as the Dell DR where you just keep adding cells of storage, but you’re still working on just one CPU. ExaGrid’s unique architecture allows us to add full appliances as a whole unit, and it all works together while staying fast and consistent. We needed something reliable, and we got it with ExaGrid,” said Le.
Le says that he spent every day monitoring backups, while Hologic continued to run out of disk space. “We flirted with the 95% line constantly. The cleaner would catch up, we would gain a few points and then we’d lose it. It was back and forth – and really bad. When storage reaches 85-90%, performance drags,” said Le. “It was a massive snowball effect.”
With ExaGrid, Hologic runs a report every day to confirm backup job success. Their IT staff especially values how well ExaGrid and Veeam work together for deduplication and replication. Currently, they are seeing a combined dedupe ratio of 11:1. “The ExaGrid-Veeam system is perfect – exactly what we needed. We are now meeting or exceeding every portion of our backup goals,” said Le.
“We’re not eating up a ton of space anymore, especially since Veeam also does their own dedupe. What I care about is the fact that I’m not losing storage, and replication and deduplication are caught up and
successful,” said Le.