ExaGrid's Eye on Deduplication

On the heels of a record-breaking quarter, we're pleased to announce today we've taken a next step in our ongoing drive to deliver all of the benefits of disk backup with data deduplication at a cost comparable to tape. ExaGrid's new lower pricing model is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies who struggle with the challenges of tape backup and want to transition to disk backup with deduplication but haven't yet made the move because of cost concerns.

You're no doubt well aware of the problems of tape-long backup times, failed backups, failed restores, tape gets mislabeled or labels fall off, tape is lost or damaged, and the list goes on.  ExaGrid delivers all the performance, reliability and security benefits of backing up to disk, at a cost that approaches the price of legacy tape libraries and tapes.

What's this mean if you're considering making a move from tape to disk?  You can read about the benefits here, including elimination of failed backups and restores, faster disaster recovery, better security, and increased IT productivity because staff spends less time on backup. It also means shorter backup windows, as dramatized by Marc Crespi, our VP of Product Management, and yours truly in this short video clip. 

We hope you find the video entertaining, but more importantly, we hope that these reduced prices remove a final obstacle for you in switching to a more reliable backup system that also gives you a few hours back every week to spend on other projects and priorities.

With the start of a new year, it's always helpful to look back at the recent past as well as some of the industry predictions for 2010 in the data deduplication space.  W. Curtis Preston, Exec. Editor at SearchDataBackup, Independent Backup Expert and webmaster at BackupCentral.com, has written a piece with 2010 predictions we thought you might find to be of interest. 

We appreciate Curtis' comments about our product differentiation and market success.  Indeed, ExaGrid's GRID scalability has served our customers and partners well in 2009 and will continue to bring significant value to our customers 2010.  Since ExaGrid's unique architecture enables customers to easily scale their disk backup with data deduplication systems as data grows without performance degradation or forklift upgrades, the total cost of ownership of ExaGrid is unmatched in the industry.