Case Study: Foley, Inc. cuts backup windows and boosts deduplication with ExaGrid

Foley Inc. cuts nightly backups from 12 to 3 hours with ExaGrid

Foley Inc., a Caterpillar equipment dealer, faced challenges with its inefficient tape-based backup system. The company's three-person IT team was strained by lengthy backup times and reliability issues, with nightly differential backups taking over 12 hours. To improve speed and reliability, Foley Inc. chose to implement a disk-based backup solution from ExaGrid.

ExaGrid provided a disk-based backup system with data deduplication that integrated with Foley's existing Dell NetWorker software. The solution dramatically reduced backup times, cutting nightly backups from 12 hours to just 3 hours and reducing full backups by 50%. ExaGrid's technology achieved high data deduplication rates of up to 37:1, provided easy scalability, and allowed Foley to retain 90 days of backups for rapid access. The result was a much more efficient process that saved the IT team a tremendous amount of management time.

Foley Inc.