Case Study: GuideIT achieves confident, scalable backup and fast recovery for clients and itself with ExaGrid

GuideIT Confidently Backs Up Client Data – and Its Own – with ExaGrid

GuideIT, a Perot company based in Plano, Texas, provides IT infrastructure management and backup services for customers and needed a reliable, scalable way to protect large volumes of client and internal data—including more than 500 VMs—while supporting common backup apps like Veeam and Veritas. Many clients store so much data that cloud backup was impractical due to variable monthly costs, so GuideIT required an on‑premise solution that guaranteed fast backups, dependable restores, and predictable costs.

GuideIT deployed ExaGrid’s disk‑based landing‑zone appliances with adaptive deduplication and offsite replication, both for client systems and its own environment. The combination of ExaGrid and Veeam delivered strong data reduction (GuideIT stores 160 TB in 53 TB), fast backup windows, instant VM recoveries, and straightforward scaling, giving the team confidence in meet­ing SLAs and reducing long‑term storage costs while benefiting from dedicated ExaGrid support.

GuideIT

Edmund Farias

Convergence Engineer Sr. Specialist