ExaGrid Cost Effective Disk-based Backup

The ExaGrid system is a cost effective and scalable disk based backup solution that works with your existing backup application. ExaGrid combines high quality SATA drives, compression and byte-level data de-duplication for fast and reliable backups and restores.

ExaGrid's innovative approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups, along with byte-level data de-duplication for all previous backups. ExaGrid's byte-level data de-duplication technology stores changes from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies. This unique approach reduces the disk space required by at least 20 to 1, delivering unparalleled cost savings and performance at 30% the cost of standard SATA storage.

Using ExaGrid's disk backup solution instead of tape can reduce an organization's backup window by 30% to 80%. A typical 12-hour backup window can be decreased to as little as four hours. ExaGrid increases the speed and reliability of your backups and also provides faster and more reliable restores. For off-site long term retention or disaster recovery, an optional second site system can be deployed at another location to supplement or eliminate offsite tapes with a live disk-based data repository, providing fast recovery in the event of a disaster. ExaGrid is extremely cost effective as a second site because the byte-level data de-duplication technology only moves changes, requiring minimal WAN bandwidth. The costs associated with tape handling, shipment, and storage are significantly reduced or eliminated.

ExaGrid's cost-effective disk-based backup system helps IT organizations solve one of the most pressing issues they face today: how to protect and manage an ever-increasing amount of data. A range of issues directly affect how organizations store, retrieve, secure, and protect data, including:

• The use of valuable IT staff time
• The need for shorter backup windows
• Project deadlines that require faster and more reliable onsite restores
• The need for faster recovery from site disasters
• Increasing legal and audit requests for fast access to random collections of backup and archive data
• Requests from auditors, lawyers, regulators, customers, partners, and suppliers demanding extended data retention periods
• Increased data security policies

These new business imperatives demand faster and more reliable backups as well as data restoration and disaster recovery. For the past five decades, companies have looked to magnetic tape as the only cost- effective solution for data backup. However, tape-based data backup is proving insufficient in meeting today's new requirements. Restores from tape are slow and unreliable because:

• During critical restore operations, tapes are corrupted, damaged, or blank
• Tapes are unlabeled or mislabeled
• Tapes become lost or stolen
• Locating and retrieving data from tapes can take hours or days
• Old tapes can't be read by new tape drives or new backup/archive software releases

ExaGrid's cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup meets the needs of IT organizations who seek to bring the benefits of an online disk-based data protection system to their current environment while retaining, supplementing or replacing their current offsite tape strategy.

Leading NHS Trust Cures Backup Issues with ExaGrid
'We handle sensitive data and we are always mindful of data security. Using the ExaGrid system to handle our backups has improved our data security. Once the files are on the ExaGrid, they’re locked into the system and the only access to it is via our backup server. With a network attached storage box, there’s the possibility that the data can be hacked. With tape backups, tapes can be lost or stolen. ExaGrid gives us a higher degree of confidence in our data security.'
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