Case Study: American Valve & Hydrant achieves faster backups and restores with ExaGrid

American Valve & Hydrant cuts backup time from 8 hours to 6 hours with ExaGrid

American Valve & Hydrant, a manufacturer of water works products, faced challenges with slow and unreliable tape-based backups that often failed to complete. Their restores were cumbersome and time-consuming. To solve this, they implemented the ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage system with data deduplication, as recommended by their parent company's IT staff.

The ExaGrid solution integrated with their existing Arcserve backup application, reducing their reliance on tape. This resulted in backups consistently completing within a six-hour window, down from eight hours. Restores became dramatically faster, completing in seconds. ExaGrid's deduplication was highly effective, leaving over 70% of disk space available. The customer also reported the system was easy to install and manage.

American Valve & Hydrant