Case Study: Commonwealth of Massachusetts IT Division achieves faster, more reliable backups and rapid restores with ExaGrid

Commonwealth of Massachusetts IT Division Optimizes Backups and Restores With ExaGrid’s Disk Backup With Deduplication System

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Information Technology Division, which provides centralized IT services across state agencies, struggled as growing data volumes outpaced its tape‑based backup system. Long backup windows, frequent failures, slow full backups and restores, and the cost and hassle of offsite tape storage left the team looking for a faster, more reliable solution.

They deployed ExaGrid’s disk‑based backup with byte‑level deduplication alongside their existing EMC NetWorker software. The scalable ExaGrid GRID reduced stored data, shortened backup windows, and made restores dramatically faster and more reliable—enabling full file restores in minutes instead of hours or days—while providing strong vendor support and easier onsite retention.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts IT Division

Paul Keplin

Senior Network Administrator