Case Study: Grow Financial achieves faster restores and avoids forklift upgrades with ExaGrid

Grow Financial Replaces Data Domain with ExaGrid to Avoid Forklift Upgrade and Speed Restores

Grow Financial Federal Credit Union, a $1.9 billion institution with 20 branches, faced growing backup capacity limits and slow, complicated restores from its aging Data Domain system—an unacceptable risk given the high cost of downtime. The credit union needed a scalable solution that would speed recovery of the most recent backups and avoid disruptive forklift upgrades.

Grow Financial deployed ExaGrid’s GRID architecture with post-process deduplication and landing-zone caching, integrating it with Veeam and EMC NetWorker. The GRID lets them add appliances for capacity and performance without a forklift swap, while post-process dedupe and the landing zone deliver much faster backups and instant access to recent restores. The result: quicker restores, reduced backup windows and management time, improved reliability and support, and the ability to scale simply by adding appliances.

Grow Financial

Dave Lively

Backup and Recovery Systems Administrator