‘Impressive’ Deduplication and Scalability Key to Increasing Retention
Leavitt Group had been keeping retention of one year but plans to increase that to three years now that the ExaGrid system is in place, due to deduplication maximizing storage capacity and the system’s scalability.
“We eventually want to keep up to three years’ retention. Our current ExaGrid was set up for one year, and now we plan to expand the system as needed. So far, we have about 11 months of backups, and everything is working really well. We’ve been able to restore data many times, and we haven’t had any issues. Everything is going as planned as far as our RTO,” said Rose.
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.
Prior to using ExaGrid, Leavitt Group had not been deduping its data, which caused capacity issues with the previous solution. With ExaGrid, Leavitt Group is able to achieve an average dedupe ratio of 8:1. “The deduplication is awesome. Our ExaGrid system is able to store nearly 1PB of data that we accumulate in a year using just 230TB of storage, which is impressive,” said Rose.