Case Study: Gates Chili Central School District streamlines backups with ExaGrid

Gates Chili Central School District cuts backup time from 9 hours to 2 with ExaGrid

Gates Chili Central School District was struggling with an overwhelmed and difficult-to-manage backup process that relied on individual tape drives for its nearly 30 servers across nine buildings. The cumbersome system was prone to failure and had prohibitively high costs for an upgrade until they found a significantly less expensive solution from ExaGrid.

By implementing the ExaGrid disk-based backup system, which works with their existing Veritas Backup Exec software, the district streamlined its operations. The solution drastically reduced full backup times from nine hours to just two to three hours, eliminated the unreliable tape process, and provided fast, easy restores. The IT staff also praised the ExaGrid system for its significant cost savings and ease of use, noting that once installed and configured, it requires no ongoing maintenance.

Gates Chili Central School District