Case Study: American Standard Brands achieves faster, worry-free backups with ExaGrid disk backup and data deduplication

American Standard’s Backups Improve by Using ExaGrid’s Disk Backup with Data Deduplication

American Standard Brands, a North American manufacturer of kitchen and bath products with offices across the U.S., Canada and Mexico and more than 6,000 employees, was struggling with rapidly growing nightly backup data. The IT team needed a tapeless, scalable and cost‑effective solution that could replicate data offsite and be deployed easily across multiple locations.

They selected ExaGrid’s disk‑based backup appliances with post‑process data deduplication and installed eight units across two sites, integrating them with their existing backup software. The deployment cut backup windows, dramatically reduced storage needs (via 10:1–50:1 deduplication ratios), minimized WAN bandwidth for offsite replication, simplified management with an intuitive GUI, and relieved the IT team of daily backup worries while improving overall backup performance.

American Standard Brands

Steve Pudimott

Manager of IT Service