Case Study: Iroquois Central School District achieves rapid, reliable backups and reduced tape reliance with ExaGrid

ExaGrid Scores High Marks with Iroquois Central School District

Iroquois Central School District, located southeast of Buffalo, NY, serves about 2,895 students across six schools and manages nearly 3,000 user accounts. The district’s full weekend and incremental weekday backups were exceeding windows and regularly failing after outgrowing its tape library, so IT began looking for a more reliable, scalable backup solution.

The district installed an ExaGrid system in its main datacenter, which integrated with their existing Symantec Backup Exec and tape library and took about 30 minutes to configure. Backups now finish in hours well within windows; ExaGrid’s post-process, byte-level deduplication greatly reduced storage needs and tape reliance, the GRID architecture provides easy scalability and DR options, and ExaGrid’s support helped optimize the deployment.

Iroquois Central School District

Lynn Martin

Network Administrator