Case Study: California Air Resources Board achieves rock-solid backups with ExaGrid and Veeam

California Air Resources Board boosts backup performance 30% with ExaGrid

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) needed a reliable and efficient backup solution after trying several platforms. They had settled on Veeam software but were still facing storage capacity issues and backups that exceeded their windows. Veeam recommended they address this by switching their backup storage to ExaGrid's Tiered Backup Storage system.

ExaGrid implemented its solution with integrated Veeam Data Mover, which dramatically improved backup performance and speed of synthetic fulls. The combined ExaGrid-Veeam deduplication allowed CARB to increase retention from a couple of weeks to a full year's worth of data. Backups became "rock solid," consistently finishing within the nightly window, and the scalable ExaGrid system easily grew with CARB's data. The vendor's dedicated support further reduced management overhead for the IT team.