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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Key Considerations for Disk Backup with Deduplication

With the move well underway by IT organizations to some form of disk-based backup with deduplication, many IT professionals do not realize there are a number of factors that should be considered when making the move to disk with deduplication, … Continue reading

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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

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ExaGrid Penetrates 50 EMC Data Domain Accounts

This past week, ExaGrid announced that 50 companies and organizations previously using EMC Data Domain have selected ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication to either replace their Data Domain system or to handle new growth and projects where they needed more … Continue reading

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5 Steps for Moving Away from Tape Backup

More than 70% of data centers today are still using tape in some part of their backup process, and annual data growth rates of 30 to 60% are putting increased pressure on those aging tape infrastructures. Backups still frequently run … Continue reading

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5 signs that deduplication will make your VM Backups easier

There are two perennial truths that we continually see as IT pros: We want it all, and we want it now. Most recently, we all fell in love with virtualization because it allowed our datacenters to become more efficient, while … Continue reading

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