Case Study: FORMA Therapeutics achieves dramatically faster backups and reliable disaster recovery with ExaGrid

FORMA Therapeutics Chooses ExaGrid over the Competition for Fastest Possible Backups

FORMA Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on cancer drug discovery whose research depends on fast, reliable data protection. Relying on tape backups left the IT team concerned about slow restores, backups that spilled into Monday mornings and caused network slowdowns, and limited disaster‑recovery capability — so they looked for a disk‑based alternative to meet tighter recovery and backup windows.

They deployed a two‑site ExaGrid disk‑based backup solution (integrated with Veeam and Symantec Backup Exec) that writes to a landing zone and uses post‑process, zone‑level deduplication. The result was dramatically faster backups and replication (dedupe as high as 70:1 on Oracle), backup windows that now complete by Saturday morning instead of Monday, about a half‑day per week saved on administration, simpler scaling and much quicker disaster recovery.

FORMA Therapeutics

Paul Kelly

Director of IT