Case Study: Georgia's Own Credit Union achieves faster backups and scalable data growth protection with ExaGrid disk-based backup

Georgia’s Own Well Positioned to Handle Future Data Growth with ExaGrid® Disk-Based Backup

Georgia’s Own Credit Union, a $1.6B member institution with about 180,000 members and 25 branches, experienced rapid membership and data growth that strained its tape-based backup infrastructure. The IT team needed a scalable, disk-based solution to meet targeted backup windows, increase retention, and avoid round‑the‑clock tape management.

They deployed an ExaGrid disk‑based backup system that integrates with their existing Symantec NetBackup environment. Post-deployment results include much faster backups (weekly fulls targeted at 24–36 hours), restores that went from days to minutes, reduced storage footprint through post‑process deduplication, simpler management, and an architecture that easily scales for future virtualization and offsite disaster recovery.

Georgia's Own Credit Union

Kevan Williamson

Assistant VP of Information Systems