Case Study: Hunter Industries achieves 6x faster backups and slashes backup administration with ExaGrid

Hunter Industries Speeds Backups with ExaGrid

Hunter Industries, a San Marcos, CA–based leader in irrigation equipment, was struggling with an aging tape library that kept backups running up to 23 hours a day, slowed network performance, and demanded about 15 hours per week of tape management—preventing reliable, nightly backups.

The company installed an ExaGrid disk-based backup appliance with post-process deduplication that works with CommVault Galaxy. Backups that once took 42 hours (Notes) now finish in seven hours or less, restores are far quicker and more reliable, admin time dropped from roughly 15 hours to about one hour per week, and the solution provides scalable options for future replication and disaster recovery.

Hunter Industries

Jeff Winckler

Network Administrator