Case Study: Foley, Inc. achieves 75% faster nightly backups (12 to 3 hours) with ExaGrid

ExaGrid is Backup Solution of Choice for Foley, Inc.

Foley, Inc., a third-generation Caterpillar equipment dealer headquartered in Piscataway, NJ, supports nearly 400 users with a three-person IT team. The company struggled with unreliable tape libraries and lengthy backup windows—nightly differential backups often took 12+ hours and full backups could run up to 96 hours—prompting a search for a faster, more stable disk-based solution.

Foley deployed an ExaGrid disk-based backup system with post-process deduplication, integrated with EMC NetWorker. Nightly differential backups dropped from 12 to 3 hours and full backups from 96 to under 48 hours; deduplication rates reached as high as 37:1, allowing 90 days of retention, much faster restores, simpler management, and easy scalability as data needs grow.

Foley Inc.

Dave Cracchiolo

Network Administrator