Landing Zone ‘Leverages Dedupe Without Performance Hit’
As a general contractor, SpawGlass has a large amount of construction-related data and documents to back up, and most of it is unstructured data, such as PDFs, drawings, Word, and Excel files. Andrews backs up the data on a daily basis. “We’ve changed our backup strategy to leverage snapshots and our backups. Thankfully, reduced backups during production hours. We’ve been able to switch our backup schedule to do fewer periodic and hourly backups, and we’ve noticed that our backup windows are shorter since switching to ExaGrid,” said Andrews.
Andrews appreciates ExaGrid’s unique Adaptive Deduplication and Landing Zone technology. “ExaGrid’s Landing Zone technology is a great feature because it allows you to leverage dedupe, but not take the performance hit when you have to do a restore. Whenever we’ve had to restore any data, our ExaGrid system has always been able to meet our expectations,” he said.
ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance, which results in the shortest backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups for a strong recovery point (RPO). As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it can also be replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).