Exagrid Reaches 2,000 Customers

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has added its 2,000th customer.

Its scalable backup solutions are relied on by organizations across all industries that require a reliable and permanent solution to meet their backup needs.

“Building a product to meet our customers’ backup storage requirements has always been our primary goal,” said Bill Andrews, CEO, ExaGrid. “Reaching 2,000 customers is a huge accomplishment, but it’s only the beginning.”

In addition, the company has been awarded U.S. Patent #8,812,738, Method and Apparatus for Content-Aware and Adaptive Deduplication, demonstrating ExaGrid’s dedication to technological innovation.

The patent allows ExaGrid to advance its Adaptive Deduplication technology, as ExaGrid’s disk-based backup appliances write directly to a unique landing zone – strategically avoiding inline deduplication and the resulting lengthy backup window. The solution allows for fast restores, instant VM recoveries, and tape copies by retaining the most recent backups in their full undeduplicated form, which avoids the time-consuming rehydration process inherent to other solutions. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups while providing full system resources to the backups, ensuring short backup window.

“Our latest technology with Adaptive Deduplication enhances our commitment to building solu,ns that perform deduplication and offsite replication in parallel with backups for an optimal recovery point at the DR site,” said Andrews. “This new approach still allows backups to be written directly to disk for fast restores, recoveries, and tape copies but deduplicating in parallel allows for an up-to-date offsite recovery point.“

Scalability, Price, and Performance
ExaGrid designs a backup storage product from a backup perspective rather than a storage perspective – with a solution that provides a unique landing zone for fast backups and fast restores, instant VM recoveries, and tape copies. It adds full server appliances into a scale-out grid architecture, permanently fixing the backup window length as data grows and eliminating the need for expensive forklift upgrades.

“We’ve been working with ExaGrid for more than six years, and initially chose ExaGrid for its role as a trusted advisor in the backup space,” said Ted Green, manager of storage systems and backup, American Standard Brands. “After our initial implementation of ExaGrid, we immediately noticed how fast our backups became but even more impressive is how fast restores, recoveries, and tape copies are. Over time, we’ve expanded our system to accommodate our growing data volumes and we’ve begun to virtualize our environment, and the ExaGrid system has kept pace with flying colors.”