Case Study: Greenwich Central School District achieves scalable, cost-effective backup and extended retention with ExaGrid

Greenwich Central School District Hits Capacity with EMC System and Replaces with ExaGrid

Greenwich Central School District, which serves about 1,200 students across multiple towns in New York, was outgrowing its EMC backup-to-disk system as data from servers, databases and user folders ballooned. To avoid a costly forklift upgrade the IT team temporarily cut backup retention to five–seven days, but needed a more scalable, cost-effective solution that would restore longer retention and reliable restores.

The district chose ExaGrid for its post-process deduplication, easy setup and strong support; deduplication ratios reported at 30:1–40:1 dramatically reduced disk requirements and ExaGrid’s GRID scalability removed the need for future hardware replacements. As a result the district achieved about 25 days of retention with 37% free space remaining, lowered backup costs compared with Dell/EMC options, and regained confidence and time previously spent managing backups.

Greenwich Central School District

Bill Hillebrandt

Network Analyst and Director of Information Technology