About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication. A highly scalable system that works with existing backup applications, the ExaGrid solution is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backup windows. ExaGrid's patented approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups along with byte-level data de-duplication technology for all previous backups. Customers can deploy the ExaGrid system at a primary site and at a second site to supplement or eliminate offsite tapes with live data repository or for disaster recovery.
About ExaGrid’s Patented Technology
The ExaGrid system is a turnkey, plug-and-play solution that works with customer's existing backup applications and enables faster and more reliable backups and restores. Customers report that backup time is reduced by 30 to 80 percent over traditional tape backup. ExaGrid's patented byte-level data de-duplication technology and most recent backup compression, coupled with high-quality SATA storage, is on average 25 to 30 percent the price of standard disk storage without data de-duplication. This unique approach reduces the amount of disk space needed by a range of 10 to 50:1, or more.
The ExaGrid Disk-based Backup system builds on patented technology and delivers many customer benefits including the following:
Highest Performance for Data Backup and Restore:
• Fastest backup performance due to post-process de-duplication. Write directly to disk without any processing on the fly to slow down backups. (Backup throughput: up to 2.1 TB/hour, 583 MB/second)
• Fastest restore and tape copy performance with byte-level data de-duplication which keeps the most recent backup in its whole form -- unlike other solutions which require re-assembly from small blocks and large hash tables. (Restore throughput: up to 1.5 TB/hour, 417 MB/second)
Scalable Virtualized GRID Architecture:
• ExaGrid provides plug-and-play growth -- new systems virtualize together automatically -- no splitting data or losing de-duplication efficiency across separate systems.
• Performance scales with data growth since processing power and memory are added together with storage capacity.
• Store a 20 TB full backup, plus retention of backup history, in a single GRID system (Four 5 TB single
ExaGrid servers in a virtualized GRID).
• Enhanced design reduces ExaGrid’s system footprint by 50 to 75 percent versus previous versions.
• Customers can store many times more backup data in the same space for substantial savings in power cooling and space requirements versus standard disk.
Most Cost-Effective Solution:
• Granular sizing options “right-size” to specific customer backup data requirements -- today and in the future.
• No need to over-buy storage capacity up front -- systems can be easily combined in a virtualized GRID for larger capacities as needed.
Support for Leading Backup Applications:
• CA ARCserve
• CommVault Galaxy
• Symantec Backup Exec
• Symantec NetBackup
• EMC Networker
• Microsoft SQL Dump
• VMware Backup (VMDK)