Case Study: Central Maine Medical Center achieves faster backups and huge storage savings with ExaGrid and Veeam

Central Maine Medical Center cuts backup windows by 60% with ExaGrid

Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) had outgrown its legacy backup system and was seeking a new approach to handle its growing data. The hospital, managed by Cerner Corporation, evaluated options from vendors like Dell EMC and FalconStor but chose ExaGrid for its data deduplication process and cost-effectiveness to address its backup and storage challenges.

ExaGrid implemented its tiered backup storage solution, which worked seamlessly with CMMC's various backup applications over the years, including its current Veeam environment. The results were significant, with the backup window for CMMC's largest server being reduced by 60%, from five days down to two. The combined deduplication from ExaGrid and Veeam provided huge storage savings, and the solution's performance allowed the IT team to drastically reduce time spent on backup administration.