Case Study: Chemung County achieves faster, more reliable backups and strong deduplication with ExaGrid

Chemung County Prefers ExaGrid Approach to Data Deduplication over Data Domain’s

Chemung County, NY—a local government serving about 90,000 residents across 400+ square miles—was struggling with slow, manual tape backups that limited retention and strained IT staff. Daily tape handling and lengthy, unreliable restores prompted the county to seek a more automated, trustworthy backup solution.

After evaluating options, Chemung County chose ExaGrid for its post-process, zone-level deduplication and compatibility with Veeam, Backup Exec and NetWorker. The ExaGrid system sped backups, simplified restores to a few clicks, eliminated tape handling, reduced disk requirements through strong deduplication, was quick to set up, and provides scalable growth and greater confidence in recoverability.

Chemung County

Steven Morse

Information Technology Specialist