Case Study: HCC Life Insurance Company speeds backups and reduces tape reliance with ExaGrid

HCC Life Insurance Company cuts nightly backups from 12 hours to 2 with ExaGrid

HCC Life Insurance Company was facing challenges with its outdated tape-based backup system. Their nightly backups were taking over 12 hours and weekly full backups exceeded 40 hours, which was costly and began to impact daily system performance. They sought a disk-based solution to speed up backups and reduce their reliance on tape, ultimately selecting the ExaGrid system for its data deduplication approach.

ExaGrid implemented a two-site system with data deduplication that works with the company's existing Veritas Backup Exec software. This solution reduced nightly backups from 12 hours to just 2 hours and cut weekly full backups from 40 hours to 12 hours. The measurable impact included significant time savings, reduced tape costs, and less staff time spent managing backups. HCC Life also praised ExaGrid's scalable architecture and exceptional customer support.

HCC Life Insurance Company