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ExaGrid Solves Data Growth Challenges for Backup and Restore

Monday, October 21st, 2013

New ExaGrid EX21000E Appliance Delivers on ‘Backup Without Compromise’ Promise, and Proves Architecture Solves the Backup Challenge – Forever

 

London, Oct. 21, 2013 – ExaGrid Systems, the company consistently ranked ‘best at backup’ by leading experts, extends its lead with its latest appliance, the EX21000E.

Like the entire ExaGrid backup family, the new appliance continues to do the inconceivable: it keeps the backup window fixed in time forever, and delivers the fastest restores – regardless of data growth. No other backup architecture can match this commitment, because only ExaGrid solves the compute problems associated with deduplication.

This newest addition to the ExaGrid family extends the company’s founding vision to remove the risk from data protection – and solve the chronic, debilitating and costly problems associated with constantly expanding business data growth.

The EX21000E scales to 210 terabytes with a 10-appliance grid – and provides 80 percent faster speeds, 62 percent more capacity and 10 percent more throughput per terabyte – all at a lower price point than ExaGrid’s EX13000E, released in 2011. The EX21000E also features an ingest rate of 4.32TB per hour, which increases to an ingest rate of 43.2TB per hour with 10 appliances in a GRID.

The new appliance is available immediately, and integrates with existing ExaGrid appliances seamlessly. The EX21000E can be mixed and matched in the same GRID with all previous ExaGrid models: EX1000, EX2000, EX3000, EX4000, EX5000, EX7000, EX10000E and EX13000E.

Architecture Matters: Compare Scale-Up versus Scale-Out
To work effectively, backup requires an architecture that deals with data growth and deduplication – which are the main drivers affecting the backup window, restore speed and IT budgets.

ExaGrid’s unique scale-out architecture adds computing power with capacity, combined with a unique Landing Zone, to solve the storage problem and the deduplication compute problem. Other available products, including EMC Data Domain, HP D2D, Quantum DXi and Dell 4100, rely on scale-up technology, limiting overall capacity and computing power, requiring costly upgrades regularly.

Backup Without Compromise
The EX21000E follows through on ExaGrid’s promise to deliver a permanent solution to the backup problem, and is standing by its five-point commitment for every deployment:

  1. No backup window growth regardless of data growth
  2. The shortest backup window
  3. Fastest restores, tape copies and recovery from a disaster
  4. VM instant recoveries in minutes
  5. Lowest cost solution upfront and over time, with no forklift upgrades, obsolescence and a price guarantee

ExaGrid’s solution, which was effectively ‘crowd-sourced’ by hundreds of IT professionals more than eight years ago, has more than 1,800 customers worldwide. The company’s highly scalable architecture is widely recognised as the market’s most cost-effective approach according to the industry’s latest reports.

 

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
More than 1,800 customers worldwide depend on ExaGrid Systems to solve their backup problems, effectively and permanently. ExaGrid’s disk based, scale-out GRID architecture constantly adjusts to incessant growing data backup demands, and is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows and eliminate expensive forklift upgrades. Read through more than 300 published customer success stories and learn more at www.exagrid.com.

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

 

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Visit ExaGrid on Stand G57 at IP Expo 2013

Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

Backup without compromise – see why ExaGrid’s scale out architecture works best

At ExaGrid’s stand you will be able to discover why ExaGrid’s unique scale out approach to backup solves the backup challenge forever. You will also discover why the alternative scale up architecture replicates the window growth issues associated with tape.

ExaGrid became the best at backup because it refuses to compromise over the 5 commitments it makes to its customers

  1. No backup window growth regardless of data growth.
  2. The shortest  backup window
  3. Fastest restores, tape copies and recovery from a disaster
  4. VM instant recoveries in minutes
  5. Lowest cost solution upfront and over time, with no forklift upgrades, obsolescence, and our price guarantee

Join our seminar session: Future proofed backup – pay only for now, prepare for tomorrow. Avoid ten pitfalls of disk based backup – Wednesday and Thursday 10.30 – 11.15 am – VLab Theatre
Presented by Andy Palmer and Graham Woods, ExaGrid

Exagrid helps businesses reduce their reliance on tape with existing backup applications by efficiently de-duplicating and replicating backup data on disk. In this session you will learn how their unique scale-out model gives a low entry cost whilst guaranteeing future scalability and allows customers to adopt a pay-as-you-grow approach to backup. You’ll also learn how Exagrid solves the backup challenge forever, unlike the scale up approach used by other vendors which only provides a temporary fix to window growth. Finally you will hear case studies of how ExaGrid has helped businesses regain control over their backup and restores while retaining a tight grip on their purse strings.

ExaGrid announces new distribution agreement with BMR in Turkey

Monday, September 30th, 2013

Latest step in ExaGrid’s international expansion

London, Sept. 30, 2013 – ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, announced today that it has appointed BMR Turkey as its distributor in both Turkey and Turkic Republics. Under the agreement BMR will supply ExaGrid’s award-winning disk backup with deduplication solutions that were recently awarded best-in-class status and earned seven of the top 10 positions in the DCIG 2013 Midrange Deduplication Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide.

About BMR Turkey

BMR is a regional value added distributor of leading-edge IT solutions for every part of the business infrastructure. It has a portfolio of complementary technologies including server, data storage, virtualisation, backup and archiving products and services. Its solutions are distributed to companies across the capital city of Ankara, Istanbul, the Anatolia region and throughout the Turkic republics.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.: 
More than 1,700 customers worldwide depend on ExaGrid Systems to solve their backup problems, effectively and permanently. ExaGrid’s disk based, scale-out GRID architecture constantly adjusts to incessant growing data backup demands, and is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows and eliminate expensive forklift upgrades. Read through more than 300 published customer success stories and learn more at www.exagrid.com.

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

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Friday, September 20th, 2013

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ExaGrid Systems Named ‘Best-in-Class’ Solution for Disk Backup by DCIG for Midrange Organisations

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

Accredited Analyst Firm Ranks ExaGrid Systems as Top Backup Solution in $50k and $100k Buyer’s Guide Reports 

Key Report Findings:

  • ExaGrid ‘Best-in-Class’ solution provides scale-out architecture and delivers significant networking and storage capacities.
  • ExaGrid products offer a unique combination of manage­ment and hardware features that scale to hundreds of terabytes of raw capacity.

London, Sept. 5, 2013 – Dominating two of the most recent buyer guides from DCIG, an independent analyst firm, ExaGrid Systems, Inc. was named ‘Best-in-Class’ and earned seven of the top 10 positions in the DCIG 2013 Midrange Deduplication Backup Appliance Under $50k Buyer’s Guide and DCIG 2013 Midrange Deduplication Backup Appliance Under $100k Buyer’s Guide reports.

In the under $50k buyer’s guide, of the seven top 10 spots ExaGrid earned, four product lines achieved a “Best-in-Class” or “Recommended” status. ExaGrid achieved the same standing in DCIG’s buyer’s guide for solutions under $100k, with four of their solutions achieving the “Best-in-Class” or “Recommended” ranking.

According to DCIG’s analysts, the report found ExaGrid to offer a unique combination of scalability, management and hardware capabilities that differentiates the company from its competition, including:

  • Global deduplication
  • High raw capacity capabilities
  • Instant recovery
  • Scale-out grid architecture

DCIG’s buyer’s guides come on the heels of a Champion Vendor recognition, in which ExaGrid earned 99 points out of a possible 100 on Info-Tech’s Value Index, and was praised for scale-out architecture, the ability to enable simultaneous scaling of both performance and capacity, and elimination of forklift upgrades.

For both of the full DCIG reports, visit the ExaGrid analyst reports page.

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About DCIG
DCIG, LLC, is an analyst firm with headquarters in Texas, focusing on archive, backup, retrieval and storage systems.  DCIG’s analysts blend analysis, journalism, advertising and marketing into compelling blog entries at www.dcig.com as well as journalistic writings with leading trade and industry publications.  DCIG’s goal is to provide evaluations and interview content on sponsoring and non-sponsoring companies to consumers, public relations firms, business analysts and other companies.  DCIG distributes industry, company and product analysis by way of viral marketing and community building using the burgeoning BLOG infrastructures created worldwide.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.: 
More than 1,700 customers worldwide depend on ExaGrid Systems to solve their backup problems, effectively and permanently. ExaGrid’s disk based, scale-out GRID architecture constantly adjusts to incessant growing data backup demands, and is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows and eliminate expensive forklift upgrades. Read through more than 300 published customer success stories and learn more at www.exagrid.com.

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

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ExaGrid Disk Backup with Deduplication Now Available Through Ingram Micro Channel Partners in U.S.

Thursday, July 11th, 2013

ExaGrid announces North American distribution agreement with world’s largest technology distributor


London – July 11 , 2013 — ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced a strategic distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world’s largest technology distributor. Under the terms of the agreement, ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication appliances that enable faster, more reliable data backup and recovery will be available in North America through Ingram Micro effective immediately.

The new alliance between ExaGrid and Ingram Micro will enable ExaGrid to grow the company’s market reach by leveraging Ingram Micro’s extensive IT reseller channel to recruit new channel partners and drive further visibility for ExaGrid in the channel. ExaGrid has one of the most aggressive and innovative channel programs in the industry, including high margins and sales incentives as well as a range of co-marketing programs. ExaGrid also understands today’s business environment and has modelled its reseller program to allow resellers to ramp without any up-front commitments of time, inventory, or certifications.

ExaGrid, its management, and its channel program have received numerous industry awards including Business Solutions Best Channel Vendor, CRN Data Center 100, CRN Channel Chief, and CRN’s 5-Star Partner Program rating, which recognises the elite subset of vendors that offer the best partnering elements in their channel programs. For more information, visit http://www.exagrid.com/Partners/Reseller-Program/.

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About Ingram Micro Inc.
Ingram Micro is the world’s largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving approximately 160 countries on six continents with the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

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.

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

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/.

ExaGrid and CA Technologies Team Up to Deliver Highly Scalable Disk Backup and Recovery for Physical and Virtual Servers

Tuesday, July 9th, 2013

Combination of ExaGrid Disk Backup Appliance and CA ARCserve D2D Software Provides Fast, Cost-Effective Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

London – July 9, 2013 – CA Technologies and ExaGrid® Systems, Inc. today announced an agreement to provide mid-market and small enterprise organisations with quicker, more efficient backup and recovery for both physical and virtual servers.

The companies have teamed up to deliver a comprehensive customised solution – which pairs CA ARCserve® D2D image-based backup and recovery software and ExaGrid disk storage and deduplication appliance hardware – that helps slash storage requirements and related costs while shortening backup windows, speeding recovery, and delivering more reliable offsite disaster recovery.

Most IT organisations face significant challenges backing up complex heterogeneous environments that combine virtual and physical environments. The combination of CA ARCserve D2D and ExaGrid provides a cost-effective solution for these challenges and a superior alternative to slower tape devices – delivering fast backup and recovery and post-process data deduplication to meet resource constraints without affecting backup performance.

The CA ARCserve D2D software and ExaGrid disk storage appliances are available today through authorised resellers and service providers.

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About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organisations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data centre to the cloud.  Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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, visit www.exagrid.com.

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ExaGrid Adds Dana Prestigiacomo as Senior VP of Marketing

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Marketing and communications veteran brings vision and experience to guide team through major phase of growth and development

London, June 17, 2013 – ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (www.exagrid.com), the leader in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, announced today that it has hired Dana Prestigiacomo as Senior Vice President of Marketing.

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Prestigiacomo joins ExaGrid during an exciting phase of growth and development as the company continues to expand both product offerings and global market reach. ExaGrid’s recent growth, fuelled by increasing demand for grid-based, scalable disk backup systems with deduplication, has prompted the company to build out its executive management team with proven industry leaders. She will take the lead on ExaGrid’s worldwide marketing and communications functions.

Prestigiacomo comes to ExaGrid with experience embodying a mix of small, midsize and large technology companies, including IBM, CA Technologies, Thomson Reuters, Acronis, IntraLinks, and more. She has led teams in developing cutting-edge marketing lead generation capabilities, metrics, partner programs, and complete company re-branding.

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.

ExaGrid Appoints Richard Pearce as VP of Business Development

Friday, June 14th, 2013

Seasoned strategic relationship-builder to focus on growing disk backup company’s worldwide industry vendor partner program

London, June 14, 2013 – ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (www.exagrid.com), the leader in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, announced today that it has expanded its leadership team with the hiring of Richard Pearce to fill the newly-created position of Vice President of Business Development.

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Pearce will focus on growing ExaGrid’s technology alliance program and adding more strategic industry vendor partners to help ExaGrid reach more customers.

Pearce joins ExaGrid from Hitachi Data Systems where he was the VP of Business Development for the company’s File & Content SolutionsPrior to that, Pearce was the VP of Business Development & Alliances at BlueArc, a high-performance NAS storage vendor that was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems. He has held many business development roles in his career, including leading business development for Symantec’s Security, Compliance, Archiving and Managed Services businesses. In addition, he has led teams at start-up and multi-national companies in Europe, Asia and the US, and earned a Ph.D. in data networking from the University of Durham in the UK.


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.

 

 

ExaGrid Named ‘Disk Based Product of the Year’ at Annual Storage Awards 2013

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

ExaGrid named ‘Disk Based Product of the Year: Small/Midrange’ and nominated in several other categories at annual awards ceremony

London – June 12, 2013 – ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (www.exagrid.com), the leader in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, announced today that it has been named ‘Disk Based Product of the Year: Small/Midrange’ at the Annual Storage Awards 2013 ceremony on June 6th 2013 in London, reinforcing its world class technology and performance. Winners were determined by a public vote, proving that the industry recognises the performance and scalability of ExaGrid’s solution. This award follows the issuance of a U.S. patent for ExaGrid’s unique Zone-level deduplication technology as well as publication of a review by Enterprise Strategy Group, showing the ExaGrid-Veeam integration has transformed the recovery of VMs thanks to ExaGrid’s unique landing zone technology.

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(from left to right) Chris Cowdrey, Andy Palmer, Graham Woods and
Stuart Leigh at the Annual Storage Awards 2013

Customer Praise for the ExaGrid System
ExaGrid, with more than 6000 systems installed across more than 1,700 customers worldwide has over 320 real-world customer success stories detailing customers’ first-hand experiences with the ExaGrid disk backu
The award for the ‘Disk Based Product of the Year: Small/Midrange’ category extended ExaGrid’s 3-year winning streak in the Annual Storage Awards competition. ExaGrid was also a finalist in the following categories in 2013:p system. The success stories are available via the ExaGrid website and include case studies from leaders across different industries like Bird & Bird, Celestica-Valencia, Concur, Conwy & Denbighshire NHS Trust (UK National Health Service), Dublin City University, Four Seasons Resort, Ipswich BC, International SOS, Moto, Kingston Technology, Konica Minolta, Prestige Brands, the Salvation Army, and Schibsted IT.

  • Editor’s Choice
  • Storage Magazine “One to Watch” Award – Product
  • Storage Magazine “One to Watch” Award – Company
  • Storage Magazine “Value for Money” Award.


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 6,000 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.