Case Study: Carter Machinery reduces backup windows and simplifies restores with ExaGrid

Carter Machinery cuts backup window by 88% with ExaGrid

Carter Machinery, a heavy equipment dealer with 17 facilities, faced significant backup challenges. Their previous system, involving tape backups and an Overland storage device, was failing to complete backups within the required cycle, creating a messy and unreliable process. The company evaluated several options, including a cloud solution that proved impractical due to infrastructure and bandwidth requirements, before choosing the ExaGrid tiered backup storage solution.

ExaGrid provided a straightforward, appliance-based solution that worked with Carter's existing Veritas Backup Exec software. The implementation dramatically reduced the backup window from 24 hours to less than 3 hours, a reduction of 88%. This improvement allowed for more frequent backups and robust recovery options. Additionally, the simplicity of ExaGrid's system enabled restores to be delegated to the help desk, saving the company money on administrative overhead and freeing up several person-days per month for the IT team.

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