ExaGrid's Eye on Deduplication

Last week we were at Symantec's Vision Conference in Las Vegas along with thousands of Symantec's customers and dozens of other partners.  There were a number of interesting presentations on the topic of backup and deduplication.  We'd like to just share a few highlights for you. 

First, here are two short video interviews. Our VP of Product Management, Marc Crespi, was interviewed and talks about our joint disk backup product solutions with Symantec's Backup Exec and NetBackup Open Storage including customer successes.  In addition, I was interviewed and talked about benefits of our partnership with Symantec to partners and to customers, and how the product just works to replace tape in the nightly backup process. 

In the session, "Deduplication Everywhere," Symantec discussed the role of disk backup appliances in their ecosystem.  Here are a couple of points from their presentation on the Benefits of Appliance-Based Deduplication:

• OST advanced management and backup application integrated management provided by the appliance vendor
• Allows NetBackup and Backup Exec to track data and move data between appliances
• OST increased data movement performance efficiency
• Minimal changes to backup environment
• Faster restores from appliances than using that device natively (not a CIFS restore)

In addition to the above, you have fast offsite disaster recovery from disk via WAN-efficient replication, retention of weeks up to years, and GRID scalability to support high rates of data growth where performance and scalability are required.  Symantec's "Deduplication Everywhere" strategy and framework has a place for deduplication to meet the needs of all customers, and the role is a disk-based appliance is an important one.