Case Study: City of Coral Gables achieves 60% lower backup system cost and dramatically faster backups with ExaGrid

ExaGrid System Priced 60% Less than Data Domain for City of Coral Gables

The City of Coral Gables, FL, needed a more cost-effective, reliable backup and disaster-recovery solution after finding tape restores difficult and spending about $10,000 every 18 months on tapes. Working with Gartner, the city evaluated several vendors and chose ExaGrid—about 60% less expensive than the EMC Data Domain option—and moved from tape to a two-site disk-based system to meet growing retention and recovery requirements.

ExaGrid’s post-process deduplication, automatic offsite replication, and GRID scalability integrated with the city’s existing Veeam and Backup Exec workflows. Nightly differential backups dropped from 16 hours to 90 minutes, weekly fulls from 72 to 50 hours, and backup management fell from roughly 8–10 hours per week to minutes a day, while restores became much faster and future growth can be handled by adding appliances.

City of Coral Gables

Ayanes Apolinar

IT Analyst, City of Coral Gables