Case Study: United States Distilled Products Company achieves 2-hour backups and reduced tape reliance with ExaGrid

ExaGrid Helps United States Distilled Products Company Reduce Reliance on Tape, Improve Backup Times with ExaGrid Disk Backup Appliance with ExaGrid

United States Distilled Products Company (USDP), a Minnesota-based bottler founded in 1981, was struggling with slow, cumbersome tape backups and seven-year retention requirements that forced staff to run backups into the workday and physically shuttle tapes to a bank safe deposit box. Tape management and long backup windows were consuming IT resources and creating recovery challenges.

USDP deployed an ExaGrid disk-based backup appliance that works with their existing Symantec Backup Exec and uses post-process deduplication. Backups shrank from roughly 12 hours to about two hours, deduplication achieved nearly a 60:1 reduction in stored data, restores became immediate and simpler, and the modular system improved scalability and reduced reliance on tape while enabling easier future replication for disaster recovery.

United States Distilled Products Company

Brian Fahning

Systems Administrator