431 ExaGrid Testimonials

"The ExaGrid system was more cost effective than Avamar … We were also impressed with ExaGrid's GRID architecture because it will enable us to expand the system in the future without doing a forklift upgrade."

"The system was more cost effective than some of the other solutions we looked at. It was less expensive to acquire and we were able to use it along with our existing backup application and tape drive. It was also more advantageous to purchase the ExaGrid system in terms of licensing and maintenance. We were able to set the system up ourselves and it's easy to manage and administer. When we factored all that in with the reduced tape and transportation costs, it was an easy choice."

"The ExaGrid system enabled us to significantly reduce our backup window and really makes the whole backup process painless. Also, the fact that we could replicate data between two ExaGrid systems was important because we could act as our own disaster recovery center."

"With the ExaGrid, we can add storage on the fly and the system will automatically load balance the data across multiple disks. And because we can add capacity in small increments, it's cost-effective because we only need to purchase enough disk to meet our needs."

"Our IT department's backup administration work has dropped about 90 percent since we started using ExaGrid. The whole tape management process has been eliminated. Now all those hours we'd spend on handling tape can be spent on other important IT initiatives."

"The ExaGrid has cut our annual backup costs by several thousands of dollars just on tape purchases and travel expenses alone. While tape systems do seem to cost less up front, we’ve gained savings on the management and disaster recovery sides with the ExaGrid system."

"One of the things that stood out about the ExaGrid was its ability to scale in both performance and retention by adding additional units to the original system."

"Since installing the ExaGrid system, one of the biggest areas of improvement has been in disaster recovery. We can now do multiple restores at once, whereas in the past we’ve only been able to perform two at a time. We’ve been able to cut the amount of time that it will take to completely recover from a disaster from 60 hours down to just 12."

"We never could have backed up the amount of data we're generating now with tape. We looked carefully at solutions from ExaGrid and Data Domain and were immediately impressed by ExaGrid's price/performance. The ExaGrid system was far more cost-effective than the Data Domain, and we liked its approach to data deduplication as well as the customer support model. ExaGrid's customer support is second to none."

"We're seeing tremendous dedupe ratios. What would have taken a hundred tapes now just takes a fraction of the available disk space on our ExaGrid system. We can go back through a month of data – over 100TB – if we need to right on the ExaGrid. It really is unheard of."

"For us, cost was a key factor in selecting ExaGrid. We wanted a system that was cost effective but also gave us the backup and restore performance and retention we required - the ExaGrid does just that."

"We looked at a lot of different solutions but in the end, ExaGrid offered the most cost-effective and scalable solution. And the fact that we didn't have to change much of our existing backup infrastructure investment was a slam dunk."

"The ExaGrid system was a good fit for our infrastructure. We liked its small footprint and the fact that its data deduplication technology would help us pack more data into our disk storage."

"With ExaGrid, I don’t have to deal with tapes on a weekly basis. Instead, we run archives once a month at night. That means that I’m not busy first thing Monday morning, retrying failed jobs from the weekly fulls and I’m not in work Sunday morning. All I have to do is to monitor backups to make sure they run. I don’t have to deal with any more tape."

"The ExaGrid system has really reduced the amount of time our backups take and it delivers extremely fast tape copy performance. Cloning our backups to tape takes no time whatsoever."