Case Study: City of Holly Hill achieves faster, pain-free backups with ExaGrid

City of Holly Hill cuts full backup times from 48 hours to under 24 with ExaGrid

The City of Holly Hill, Florida, faced significant challenges with its outdated tape backup system. Due to growing data volumes, particularly from law enforcement applications, full backups were taking up to 48 hours, causing network slowdowns that impacted critical emergency services. The city's IT manager, Scott Gutauckis, sought a new solution to improve backup speed and reliability and chose an ExaGrid disk backup system with data deduplication to address these issues.

By implementing ExaGrid, the city dramatically reduced its full backup times from 48 hours to under 24 hours. The ExaGrid system's strong data deduplication also cut the amount of stored data by 50%, allowing the city to easily meet its 90-day retention goal. The IT staff now spends significantly less time managing backups, and the solution provides the flexibility to scale for future growth and add a second site for disaster recovery.

City of Holly Hill