Case Study: ABC Companies achieves faster backups, big cost savings, and improved disaster recovery with ExaGrid

ABC Companies Opts for ExaGrid over Data Domain for Price, Manageability, & Features

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the transportation industry headquartered in Faribault, MN, chose to replace its tape-based backup process after implementing a new Oracle ERP. The IT team needed a more reliable, manageable solution with data deduplication and offsite replication to reduce storage, speed backups, and improve disaster recovery.

After evaluating ExaGrid, EMC and Data Domain, ABC selected ExaGrid for its cost, manageability and feature set and deployed systems in Florida and California that integrate with Backup Exec, vRanger and RMAN. ExaGrid’s deduplication cut stored data enough to buy a smaller system, enabled automatic replication (eliminating tape shipping), shortened backup windows, sped restores (entire servers restored in about an hour), reduced costs and simplified management with strong vendor support and scalability.

ABC Companies

Matt Horn

Senior Network Administrator