Cost Effective Disk Backup Solution with Data Deduplication
The ExaGrid system is a cost effective and scalable disk backup solution that works with your existing backup application. ExaGrid combines high quality SATA drives, compression and byte-level data deduplication for fast and reliable backups and restores.
ExaGrid’s innovative approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for 
the most recent back ups, along with byte level data deduplication for all previous backups. ExaGrid’s post-process deduplication technology stores changes from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies. This unique approach reduces the disk space required by at least 10, and up to 50 to 1, delivering unparalleled performance for the fastest backups and restores, all in a solution that costs the same as a new tape library.
ExaGrid’s byte-level data deduplication technology stores changes from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies. This unique disk backup solution reduces the disk space required for backup by a range of 10:1 to 50:1, delivers best-in-class scalability and unparalleled cost savings.
Lowest Cost Disk-to-Tape or Disk-to-Disk-to-Disk Data Protection
Using ExaGrid’s disk backup solution instead of tape can reduce an organization’s backup window by 30% to 80%. For example, a typical 12-hour backup window can be decreased to as little as four hours. ExaGrid increases the speed and reliability of your data backups and also provides faster and more reliable data back up and recovery. For off-site long term retention or disaster recovery, an optional second site system can be deployed at another location to supplement or eliminate offsite tapes with a live disk-data repository, providing fast recovery in the event of a disaster. ExaGrid is extremely cost effective as a second site because the byte-level data deduplication technology only moves changes, requiring minimal WAN bandwidth. The costs associated with tape handling, shipment, and storage are significantly reduced or eliminated, making our disk backup solution a viable alternative for companies looking to save money and mitigate risk of data loss.
Data Protection Challenges
ExaGrid’s cost-effective disk backup system helps IT organizations solve one of the most pressing issues they face today: how to protect and manage an ever-increasing amount of data. A range of issues directly affect how organizations store, retrieve, secure, and protect data, including:
- The use of valuable IT staff time
- The need for shorter backup windows
- Project deadlines that require faster and more reliable onsite restores
- The need for faster recovery from site disasters
- Increasing legal and audit requests for fast access to random collections of backup and archive data
- Requests from auditors, lawyers, regulators, customers, partners, and suppliers demanding extended data retention periods
- Increased data security policies
These new business imperatives demand faster and more reliable data backups as well as data restoration and disaster recovery. For the past five decades, companies have looked to magnetic tape as the only cost-effective solution for data backup. However, tape-based data backup is proving insufficient in meeting today’s new requirements. Data recovery from tape is slow and unreliable because:
- During critical restore operations, tapes are corrupted, damaged, or blank
- Tapes are unlabeled or mislabeled
- Tapes become lost or stolen
- Locating and retrieving data from tapes can take hours or days
- Old tapes can’t be read by new tape drives or new backup/archive software releases
ExaGrid’s cost-effective and scalable disk backup solution with data deduplication meets the needs of IT organizations who seek to bring the benefits of an online disk-based data protection system to their current environment while retaining, supplementing or replacing their current offsite tape strategy..