University of Northern Iowa Saves Time, Increases Disaster Protection and Gains Scalability with ExaGrid’s Disk-Based Solution with Data Deduplication

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., August 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Hệ thống ExaGrid, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that it has published over 300 customer success stories, which can be found on the company’s website – making ExaGrid the first and only backup vendor to reach this impressive milestone, and only IT vendor with 300 published testimonials for a single product solution. These published stories combined with customer video testimonials comprise a library of published customer endorsements, which is larger than all competitors combined. This further underscores ExaGrid’s superior product capabilities, value delivered, customer support model, and commitment to customer satisfaction. Each two-page customer success story includes the person’s name, title, and a personal quote.

The University of Northern Iowa is the 300th customer to publicly share its selection of and success with ExaGrid’s disk backup with data deduplication solution. As a state-supported university of approximately 13,000 students, and ranked among the nation’s top 650 undergraduate colleges and universities in the Forbes’ 2011 annual ranking of top colleges, the university’s IT department understands the importance of maintaining records and data in a safe, secure and disaster resistant environment.

Prior to switching to ExaGrid, UNI had been backing up its data to a large, onsite magnetic tape library using a chargeback service model to the university system. The IT organization backed up data files, Oracle RMAN backups and Microsoft SQL backups for its clients using Symantec NetBackup, with an average of three months’ retention and the ability to restore the last 30 daily backups. With a goal of offering advanced services and increasing efficiency, the IT department needed to replicate data off-site for increased data protection. A recent reduction in IT personnel led UNI to realize its previous shuttling of tape to offsite locations was not possible. The IT department also realized that data stored at both locations could be lost in a disaster due to their proximity to one another. The university needed to send data offsite more frequently and move away from tape to improve business continuity.

After getting pricing from another vendor and discounting them due to ‘sticker shock,’ the IT department chose ExaGrid’s disk backup solution with deduplication because of the scalability of its GRID-based architecture, fast restores and price.

• With the university’s typical annual data growth rate at between 40-50 percent, the ExaGrid system offers the advantage of scaling capacity as data grows, avoiding costly forklift upgrades.
• With ExaGrid, UNI has saved time and internal resources by no longer having to manually send tapes offsite. UNI’s implementation of ExaGrid’s systems has also shortened its backup window, as the university is no longer limited by the number of tape drives it had as to how many different servers it could back up at once. The ExaGrid system has allowed UNI to increase the distance between its off-site copies and primary datacenters, while reducing the amount of effort that went into moving the data there. With ExaGrid, UNI’s IT team can run more backups simultaneously, allowing for increased efficiency due to shortened backup windows and faster restores.
• For UNI, another big advantage of choosing ExaGrid was that the university IT team could keep its existing NetBackup software for backing up files. Maintaining the existing software was a high priority due to its familiarity and ease of use. In addition, ExaGrid offered the capability of supporting backups using Oracle RMAN.

Báo giá hỗ trợ:

• Seth Bokelman, Senior Systems Administrator, University of Northern Iowa: “Our IT department is extremely satisfied with our decision to implement ExaGrid’s solutions. Compared to our previous tape system, which required a lot of “hand-holding” and personal monitoring by me, the ExaGrid system is like a huge weight off my shoulders, saving me time and making my job easier. With ExaGrid, there is no more coming in on weekends to swap out a bad tape drive, and no more worrying about having to be there when there is a tape drive failure. With ExaGrid, I can sleep easier at night knowing our backup jobs go are faster and are more reliable.”

• Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid: “The UNI success story is fitting as our 300th published customer case study, as the university’s implementation highlights ExaGrid’s scalability, fast restores and superior price point over our primary competitor in the space. This company and industry milestone, serves as further proof of our commitment to customer satisfaction within the global marketplace. ExaGrid’s unmatched, broad range of customer endorsements can be attributed to our highly efficient performance, scalable GRID-based architecture and top-notch support. Customers are only willing to speak publicly if the product, customer support, and experience with the vendor are all top notch.”

Giới thiệu về Công nghệ của ExaGrid:
Hệ thống ExaGrid là một thiết bị sao lưu đĩa plug-and-play hoạt động với các ứng dụng sao lưu hiện có và cho phép sao lưu và khôi phục nhanh hơn và đáng tin cậy hơn. Khách hàng báo cáo rằng thời gian sao lưu giảm từ 30 đến 90 phần trăm so với sao lưu băng truyền thống. Công nghệ chống sao chép dữ liệu cấp vùng được cấp bằng sáng chế của ExaGrid và nén sao lưu gần đây nhất làm giảm dung lượng ổ đĩa cần thiết trong phạm vi 10: 1 đến cao nhất là 50: 1 hoặc hơn, dẫn đến chi phí tương đương với sao lưu dựa trên băng truyền thống.

Giới thiệu về ExaGrid Systems, Inc .:
ExaGrid cung cấp thiết bị sao lưu dựa trên đĩa duy nhất với mục đích chống trùng lặp dữ liệu được xây dựng để sao lưu, thúc đẩy một kiến ​​trúc độc đáo được tối ưu hóa cho hiệu suất, khả năng mở rộng và giá cả. Sự kết hợp giữa chống trùng lặp sau quy trình, bộ nhớ đệm sao lưu gần đây nhất và khả năng mở rộng GRID cho phép các bộ phận CNTT đạt được thời gian sao lưu ngắn nhất và khôi phục nhanh nhất, đáng tin cậy nhất và khôi phục thảm họa mà không cần mở rộng cửa sổ sao lưu hoặc nâng cấp xe nâng khi dữ liệu phát triển. Với các văn phòng và hệ thống phân phối trên toàn thế giới, ExaGrid có hơn 4,500 hệ thống được lắp đặt tại hơn 1,400 khách hàng và hơn 300 câu chuyện thành công của khách hàng đã được công bố.