Case Study: City of St. Petersburg, FL achieves 85% backup window reduction with ExaGrid

City of St. Petersburg, FL Selects ExaGrid/Veeam Backup Solution, Reduces Backup Window by 85%

The City of St. Petersburg, Florida — a 95% virtualized municipal environment supporting heavy public services and tourism — outgrew its tape-based Veritas NetBackup process as data volumes soared. Frequent backup failures, limited tape drives and insufficient disk capacity made nightly backups impractical, forcing IT to seek a more efficient, deduplicated disk-based solution.

The city deployed ExaGrid with Veeam, gaining high-efficiency deduplication (average 11:1), GRID scalability, and compatibility with a partner site. The result: backup window cut by 85% (from ~80 to ~11 hours), daily backup administration time halved, reliable protection of over 400 TB across two sites, and a simplified, tape-reduction roadmap.

City of St. Petersburg

Rock Mitich

Senior Server Analyst