Case Study: County of Berrien reduces backup window by 35% and cuts backup administration time with ExaGrid

Berrien County Reduces Backup Window by 35% with ExaGrid and Veeam

Berrien County, a largely virtualized (90%) municipal environment supporting courthouses, 911 and administrative functions, struggled with costly, complex tape-based backups that sometimes ran more than 72 hours and consumed most of IT time. Needing a disk-based, scalable solution that could co-exist with Veeam and a small set of Veritas Backup Exec jobs while meeting long‑term retention requirements, the county sought a simpler, more reliable approach.

Deploying ExaGrid’s scale‑out GRID appliances with Veeam (and Backup Exec support) provided inline deduplication, a landing zone for fast restores, and easy expansion. The result: a 35% shorter backup window, administrative effort cut from about 70% to 20% of a technician’s day, six months of on‑disk retention, combined deduplication typically 6:1–10:1 (up to ~16:1 observed with Backup Exec), easier restores, and seamless scaling to handle ~25% annual data growth.

County of Berrien

Paul Olmstead

LAN Specialist