Small Footprint Makes the Most of Rack Space, Data Deduplication Maximizes Disk Space
Because The L&L Company planned to move its datacenter into a co-location facility, the physical size of the ExaGrid appliance and its strong data deduplication technology were both deciding factors in choosing ExaGrid.
“The ExaGrid system takes up only 3U, where our tape drives and server would have taken up 7U. The smaller footprint saves us rack space and will translate into a lower cost of ownership,” said Ruckle. “In addition, ExaGrid’s data deduplication technology does a tremendous job at reducing the amount of data we store on the system. We were initially skeptical, but we’re really amazed that we’re able to store so much data in such a small footprint. We’re able to now keep more than 60 days of retention.”
ExaGrid’s turnkey disk-based backup system combines enterprise drives with zone-level data deduplication, delivering a disk-based solution that is far more cost effective than simply backing up to disk with deduplication or using backup software deduplication to disk. ExaGrid’s patented zone-level deduplication reduces the disk space needed by a range of 10:1 to 50:1, depending on the data types and retention periods, by storing only the unique objects across backups instead of redundant data. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups. As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it is also replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).