Case Study: Fuss & O'Neill achieves 4x faster full backups and 90% less backup administration with ExaGrid

Fuss & O’Neill Engineers Better Backups with ExaGrid

Fuss & O’Neill is a 85-year‑old, full‑service engineering and consulting firm with nearly 300 staff across five offices in the Northeast and beyond. The company struggled with outdated, unreliable tape backups—managing tapes across locations was time-consuming, error-prone and running out of capacity, making complete nightly backups increasingly difficult.

Fuss & O’Neill deployed ExaGrid’s disk‑based backup system integrated with Symantec Backup Exec, leveraging post‑process byte‑level deduplication (regularly achieving 12:1 or higher) and a scalable GRID architecture. The change cut full backup windows from four days to one, sped restores from hours to minutes, left 40% capacity free, and reduced backup administration time by about 90%, with easy expansion and plans for a second system for replication and disaster recovery.

Fuss & O'Neill

Stephen Cram

Computer Analyst