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Category Archives: Blog
Local Government Experiences Improved Backups with ExaGrid
The IT staff at the City and County of Honolulu (Honolulu County) struggled with long weekly backups to tape that consistently ran into Monday mornings, causing server and network slowdowns for its nearly 8,000 users. Honolulu County employees support residents … Continue reading
Cloud HR solutions provider selects ExaGrid to reduce its backup window and costs
We’re seeing more and more cloud-based software providers move to ExaGrid’s disk-based backup with deduplication appliance to improve backup and recovery times, while gaining more control over retentions. Synergy Data Systems case study is a perfect example. Specializing in developing cloud- based … Continue reading
Higher Education Looks to ExaGrid to Improve Data Backup Performance
Higher education institutions are increasingly choosing ExaGrid’s disk-based backup appliances with deduplication to gain faster backups and restores. Educational institutions are increasingly choosing ExaGrid’s disk backup architecture to meet their backup and recovery needs in large part because of ExaGrid’s unique … Continue reading
Better virtualized server backup with ExaGrid and Veeam
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC) is one of our non-profit customers working in the energy consumption field, and VEIC is internationally recognized for its cutting edge work helping federal, state, county, and municipal governments develop and achieve energy conservation, energy … Continue reading
Data Deduplication Approaches
In our last post, we discussed disk staging—how inserting disk in front of the tape library eliminates many of the problems of tape for backup. In today’s post, excerpted from “Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication,” we discuss various … Continue reading
Straight Talk About Disk Staging in a Backup Environment
Because using disk for backup has historically been much more expensive compared to tape, most IT organizations have found a middle ground by using a small amount of disk between the backup/media server and the tape library to hold the most recent … Continue reading
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
As we all know, for decades, the traditional way to store offsite backups has been to make tape copies and vault them offsite. With data growth rates averaging 30% or more annually, most organizations who are still storing tapes offsite … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Disaster Recovery
Tagged backup, cloud, data deduplication, disaster recovery, disk-based backup, ExaGrid, tape backup
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Manufacturer Avoids Data Domain Forklift Upgrade by Opting for ExaGrid
I recently had the pleasure of meeting with one of our customers in the Atlanta area, TenCate, and thought you would find their story of two backup upgrades within 3 years to be of interest. TenCate is a multinational company … Continue reading
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Tagged data deduplication, Data Domain, deduplication, disk backup, disk-based backup, emc data domain, ExaGrid
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ExaGrid Awarded InfoWorld’s 2013 Technology of the Year Award Winner
We are excited to announce that ExaGrid’s EX Series was selected as the “InfoWorld 2013 Technology of the Year Award” winner. Winners were announced by InfoWorld January 9, 2013. InfoWorld’s Test Center editors and reviewers select technologies with the goal … Continue reading
InfoWorld Review: ExaGrid Aces Disk-to-Disk Backup
InfoWorld has just published a review of ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication appliances, entitled, “ExaGrid Aces Disk-to-Disk Backup: ExaGrid’s unique scale-out grid architecture makes for powerful, scalable, and uncomplicated disk-based backup and deduplication.” The entire review is a worthwhile read, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Industry Analyst Perspectives
Tagged data deduplication, disk backup, disk backup appliance, infoworld, Veeam
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