Concord Camera Deploys ExaGrid

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced that Concord Camera
has chosen the ExaGrid system to achieve faster, more reliable backups
and restores.

Based in Hollywood, Florida, Concord Camera Corp. designs, develops,
manufactures and markets on a worldwide basis, popularly priced,
easy-to-use image capture products. Concord distributes image capture
solutions under such trademarks as CONCORD,
EASYSHOT JENOPTIK
and POLAROID, and the company’s
award-winning products include digital cameras (VGA to 8Megapixel),
Single Use and 35mm traditional film cameras, and emerging multimedia
devices, such as digital video camcorders.

“The ExaGrid system was more cost-effective
than other solutions, and we were impressed with ExaGrid’s
post-process approach to data de-duplication,”
said Jose Lopez, senior IT network administrator for Concord Camera. “The
ExaGrid system quickly lands a full backup onto the system and then
starts performing data de-duplication; while other products perform data
de-duplication inline before the data is fully backed up. We believed
that the ExaGrid solution would provide higher performance, and we’ve
been very happy.”

ExaGrid’s 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 10:1 to
50:1 or more, delivering unparalleled cost savings and performance.
ExaGrid delivers extremely fast backup performance because data is
written directly to disk, and data de-duplication is performed
post-process, after the data is stored.

The ExaGrid system works alongside Concord’s
backup application, CA ARCserve Backup, and
is located at Concord’s headquarters in
Hollywood. Since installing ExaGrid, Concord’s
full backup completion times have been significantly reduced and
restores are also faster.

“Restore speed is critical to us for disaster
recovery planning and because we perform restores on a routine basis,”
said Lopez. “Restoring data from tape was a
time consuming process, however restoring even our largest files from
the ExaGrid system takes just minutes.”

ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

Concord Camera Corp.