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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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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

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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 Top Five Predictions for Backup and Recovery Market in 2013

Last week, ExaGrid released our top five predictions for the worldwide backup and recovery market in 2013. As organizations cope with data growth and look to gain greater operational efficiency and increased value from IT investments, we’ve identified the following … Continue reading

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Saving Money on Disk Backup: Scale-Up vs Scale Out Architecture

There is a lot of discussion in the storage industry in regard to “scale-up” versus “scale-out” architectures for backup and recovery. More and more organizations are reducing or eliminating the use of tape by deploying disk-based appliances that use deduplication. … Continue reading

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Consolidating Data Protection at the Disk Backup Appliance

An excellent article in InformationWeek by Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump, just caught our attention. It’s entitled,”Consolidation at the Disk Backup Appliance,” and it makes a compelling case for IT to continue using multiple best-of-breed backup applications or utilities, … Continue reading

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Seven Steps to Protect Your Data from Disaster

With the devastating damage from Hurricane Sandy, we’re very concerned about the effects of the storm for both the East coast, and for many people in other parts of country who are feeling the effects. In the midst of the … Continue reading

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Survey of 1,200 IT Managers Reveals Widespread Dissatisfaction with State of Backup

We recently announced the results of a survey of 1,200 IT managers which revealed very interesting findings–widespread dissatisfaction with the capabilities of many existing backup systems to keep pace with requirements for faster backups, more robust disaster recovery, improved virtual … 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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Best Practices for Integrating ExaGrid Disk Backup with Symantec NetBackup

Are you looking to use a leading 3rd-party disk backup with deduplication system in  your existing Symantec NetBackup (NBU) environment to eliminate tape and get faster backups and restores and more efficient offsite DR?  This blog post explains how you … Continue reading

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