431 ExaGrid Testimonials

"Restoring a fairly large directory from the ExaGrid system takes about 90 seconds. Restoring the same directory from tape would have taken a day and a half. We've been extremely impressed with ExaGrid's restore speeds. It has made a tremendous difference in our day-to-day IT operations because we can spend more time on other duties instead of on managing backups and restores."

"We saw the impending doom of our system. This forced us to take a really hard look at where we needed to be, and we were able to get there thankfully with ExaGrid."

"We looked at Data Domain first, and got some quotes from them. We had total sticker shock when the quote came back. It was not even a remote possibility that we were going to spend that kind of money. We looked at Symantec’s NetBackup appliances and brought them both in for testing. In the end, we decided to go with ExaGrid largely because of the lower pricing and the need to support backups using Oracle RMAN."

"The ExaGrid system gives us a great deal of flexibility. Not only can it grow in terms of capacity, but we can also add a second ExaGrid system at some point in the future to replicate data to another location and completely eliminate tape."

"The best thing about upgrading to the ExaGrid is that the process just works. We set the backups and they run; there is very little work for me or my staff to do."

"Installing the ExaGrid system has saved NPS nearly $1,500 per month in tape costs and tape storage fees, but the biggest cost savings is in the amount of time the IT staff saves in managing and administering tape backups and restores, and in meeting SOX compliance."

"We're in the insurance business, and ExaGrid's GRID architecture acts as a policy against having to ‘rip and replace’ our backup infrastructure when our backup needs increase. [ExaGrid and Veeam] work extremely well together and have essentially solved our backup issues."

"ExaGrid's support team has been extremely helpful and proactive. For example, our support engineer called one day and suggested we upgrade the firmware for all our units. He initiated the process for the upgrade and then I installed the physical units. He then came in remotely and helped us complete the installation and stayed with it until we were all sure that everything was up and running well. We were very impressed."

"It was expensive and complex to expand our old D2D system, and even then, scalability was limited. The ExaGrid system with deduplication is inherently scalable. We can easily add additional capacity ourselves and it can all be easily managed as a single system."

"The way the ExaGrid system compresses data is impressive. We are now able to retain three months of data on-site on the ExaGrid and it gives us a comfort level we didn't have with tape. And since our data is always readily available on disk, we can perform restores quickly at any time."

"ExaGrid's price point was very, very good. It was less expensive for us to purchase the ExaGrid system than it would have been to purchase a new tape library and tapes."

"We not only save the cost of the tapes, transportation and storage but we have also significantly reduced the amount of staff time we spend managing tape. Having the ExaGrid in place saves us a lot of time and it frees us up to do other things. I don’t have to constantly monitor the backups or swap out tapes."

"Before ExaGrid we had to gather the tapes, get them off-site, and then worry about re-loading the tape library. Now it’s very easy; you just set it and forget it, and wait for the daily e-mail that says the backups are finished."

"Managing backups with ExaGrid is very easy – all you have to do is set your backup jobs to point to the ExaGrid and you’re done."

"We looked at several different disk-based backup systems in depth and we liked the tight integration between the ExaGrid and VMware and the fact that ExaGrid provides a high level of support for VMware. The ExaGrid system will enable us to have near-instantaneous recovery of our virtual hosts in the event of a crash."