Archive for February, 2012

ExaGrid’s EX13000E Disk Backup System Named Storage Magazine 2011 Product of the Year Finalist

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

London — February 7, 2012 — ExaGrid® Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that its EX13000E disk backup appliance has been selected as a finalist in the Backup Hardware category of Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com’s 2011 Product of the Year Awards.

ExaGrid’s EX13000E disk backup system utilizes a scalable GRID-based architecture that combines 10 appliances in a GRID to store a 130TB full backup, plus weeks or months of retention. As the most recent addition to ExaGrid’s disk backup product line, the EX13000E offers customers the highest performance midrange backup appliance in the industry and the highest performance/TB for a fully-loaded disk backup with deduplication system. It is also the only disk backup system that enables instant recovery and running of a virtual machine (VM) from the disk backup system when the primary VM is unavailable.

With other disk backup solutions that use front-end server architecture and add disk shelves as data grows, customers experience longer backups over time and eventually must replace the front end server, which is a costly forklift upgrade. In contrast, ExaGrid’s scalable GRID-based approach adds full servers—including memory, processor, disk and bandwidth—to maintain consistently fast backup performance and a fixed length backup window as data increases. This approach allows customers to confidently purchase a system that will expand to handle future data growth, keep the backup window static and avoid forklift upgrades associated with the front-end server/disk shelf architecture. Like all ExaGrid appliances, the EX13000E can be seamlessly added to any existing ExaGrid deployment and be mixed and matched with older appliances of any size, thereby eliminating obsolescence.

ExaGrid’s EX13000E’s backup performance of 24TB/hour for a 130TB GRID is more than double the backup performance per TB of any other disk backup with deduplication system. Each EX13000E has 16 2TB disks, 16GB of memory and two CPUs in a 19-inch rackmount chassis.

ExaGrid’s EX13000E was one of the select few data storage products in six categories chosen from nearly 200 entries by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com as a finalist for the 2011 Product of the Year Awards. The finalists in each category were selected by a panel of judges, with the Backup Hardware category covering tape libraries, tape drives for backup, media, disk backup targets, virtual tape libraries (VTL), deduplication devices and gateways appliances for cloud backup.

Important Features and Benefits of the ExaGrid EX Series Appliance

ExaGrid’s unique approach to disk-based backup delivers unparalleled performance and scalability without requiring costly forklift upgrades as data grows. ExaGrid customers achieve the fastest backup times because data is written directly to disk, data deduplication is performed post-process after the data is stored but most importantly ExaGrid adds full servers which include processor, memory, disk and bandwidth versus just adding disk.

ExaGrid’s disk backup system with data deduplication supports the industry’s leading backup applications and utilities, including CA ARCserve, CommVault Simpana, EMC NetWorker, HP Data Protector, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Idera SQsafe, Linux/Unix File System Data Dumps, LiteSpeed for SQL Server, Microsoft SQL dump, Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), Quest vRanger, Red Gate SQL Backup, Symantec Backup Exec and NetBackup, Veeam Backup & Replication, and VMware Backup.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.:
ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimised for performance, scalability and price. ExaGrid is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows, eliminate expensive forklift upgrades, achieve the fastest full system restores and tape copies, and rapidly restore files, VMs and objects in minutes. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 6,500 systems installed at more than 1,700 customers, and more than 320 published customer success stories.

For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985 or visit www.exagrid.com. Visit “ExaGrid’s Eye on Deduplication” blog: http://blog.exagrid.com/.

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ExaGrid is a registered trademark of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

 

 

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ExaGrid Named 2012 Best Channel Vendor by Business Solutions’ VAR Subscribers

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

London — Feb. 2, 2012 — ExaGrid® Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, was named by Business Solutions magazine’s (BSM) VAR subscribers as one of the Best Channel Vendors in 2012. This designation came as a result of a web-based survey distributed by Business Solutions for its VAR subscribers, which was conducted in partnership with Penn State University to ensure statistical accuracy.

ExaGrid received a total 4.52 score out of 5 in the seven categories posed to vendor partners: service and support, channel loyalty, channel programme, product features, product reliability, product innovation and VAR margins. ExaGrid scored the highest for its channel programme (4.54) and product reliability (4.58).

Product and service strengths drive partner growth

In the last year, ExaGrid added more than 100 new reseller partners to its programme, which expanded the base of ExaGrid partners to nearly 500 VARs worldwide. This growth can be attributed in part to the many investments and innovations the company has made in channel sales and marketing to enable partners’ success, which include industry-leading margins and sales incentives, a deal registration programme that rewards VARs who proactively promote ExaGrid, extensive sales and technical training, field pre-sales support, and joint marketing programmes.

 

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.:
ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimised for performance, scalability and price. ExaGrid is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows, eliminate expensive forklift upgrades, achieve the fastest full system restores and tape copies, and rapidly restore files, VMs and objects in minutes. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 6,500 systems installed at more than 1,700 customers, and more than 320 published customer success stories.

For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985 or visit www.exagrid.com. Visit “ExaGrid’s Eye on Deduplication” blog: http://blog.exagrid.com/.

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ExaGrid is a registered trademark of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

 

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Satmetrix® SparkScore™ to Offer Groundbreaking Social Media Measurement Solution That Connects Online Sentiment to Business Results Using Net Promoter®

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Solution marries methodology and approach of Net Promoter with social media sentiment classification and rigorous analytics technology to measure online conversations in a meaningful business context

London — Feb. 3, 2012—Satmetrix, the Net Promoter® software company, today announced it will change the way businesses measure and use social media with the first-ever Net Promoter social media measurement solution, Satmetrix SparkScore™. The solution applies the same Net Promoter methodology of recommendation behavior, which identifies Detractors, Passives and Promoters of a brand, to social media sentiment. With SparkScore, businesses will be able to measure the fluid and unstructured comments and opinions made about their brands online using Net Promoter, the widely-embraced customer loyalty metric and business practice that drives profitable growth.

In the upcoming weeks and months Satmetrix will be releasing a series of SparkScore solutions. The first, free edition, which is scheduled to launch towards the end of this month, will measure the SparkScore of major brands across industries. Using a rigorous and reliable sentiment engine from Satmetrix development partner Metavana, SparkScore will analyse comments made about brands across social media sites (Facebook, Twitter and more), as well as reviews, discussion sites and applicable private customer forums, and assign a SparkScore to each brand. Companies will be able to access their overall SparkScore and compare it to their industry’s benchmark and best and worst scores on a daily basis.

Following this first release, Satmetrix will be embedding its SparkScore solutions into its Net Promoter in the Cloud software applications to enable companies to generate more powerful social media insights and drive action across their organisations to increase business results.

For more information about SparkScore and other offerings from Satmetrix, visit www.satmetrix.com.

A full version of the release is attached as a Word document.

About Satmetrix

Satmetrix is the leading provider of cloud-based customer experience software for companies worldwide. As co-developer of the industry-leading Net Promoter® methodology, its applications deliver full process support to help companies reduce customer churn, mobilise loyal promoters, generate more powerful insights and drive customer obsession through accountability. With experience on more than 700 deployments in 40 languages, Satmetrix has the knowledge to accelerate the success of customer experience efforts using Net Promoter. Satmetrix is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. with offices in London, New York, Paris and India.

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Net Promoter, Net Promoter Score and NPS are trademarks of Satmetrix Systems, Inc., Bain & Company, Inc. and Fred Reichheld. Satmetrix, the Satmetrix logo, and SparkScore are trademarks of Satmetrix Systems, Inc.

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