431 ExaGrid Testimonials

“We were impressed with ExaGrid’s customer references. As part of our due diligence, we spoke with four ExaGrid customers. They had wonderful things to say about the product, and we were very impressed.”

"We have a remote access portal that enables me to work on our systems from home or from anywhere else I happen to be. I'm on call a lot and can remote into the ExaGrid on nights or weekends to check on our backups or to restore a file. We couldn't do that with tape. It saves me a lot of time and aggravation and enables us to be more efficient as an IT organization."

"You never know what your data is going to look like in a few years, and I wanted a product that would allow me to easily scale; the ExaGrid provides that. It seems that ExaGrid is really on top of new technology, and the system is a very good fit for our environment."

"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."

"The ExaGrid system provided all the functionality we needed at a better price than the EMC Data Domain system. We also liked that we could use the ExaGrid system along with our existing backup application, CA ARCserve Backup, so our learning curve was minimized."