Case Study: Grand Island Central School District achieves reliable backup storage and offsite disaster recovery with ExaGrid

Easy-to-Use ExaGrid System Provides Reliable Backup Storage and DR for GICSD

Grand Island Central School District (GICSD), a K–12 district in Western New York, needed a reliable, low‑maintenance backup solution for its largely virtualized environment and thousands of faculty, staff and student home folders. The district required nightly differential, incremental and full backups to finish within tight windows, fast restores when users accidentally delete files, and an offsite disaster‑recovery capability that wouldn’t disrupt network operations.

GICSD deployed an ExaGrid turnkey disk‑based system (used with Veritas Backup Exec) featuring a full landing zone, zone‑level deduplication and replication to a secondary DR site. The solution delivered consistent backups within scheduled windows, rapid restores (typically 5–10 minutes), seamless remote upgrades and simplified management—giving the district improved data protection, an operational offsite DR copy, cost savings and peace of mind.

Grand Island Central School District

Josh Nichols

Network Systems Administrator