Case Study: Bird & Bird achieves near-instant restores and scalable, faster backups with ExaGrid

International Commercial Law Firm Bird & Bird Chooses ExaGrid to Deliver Its Backup Systems

Bird & Bird, an international law firm with 21 offices specializing in multimedia, telecoms, IT and intellectual property, struggled as its data volumes grew: tape-based backups were slow, stored off-site for security, and could take up to four hours to recover a file. Weekly backups frequently ran all weekend into Monday, risking missed deadlines, lost billable time and damage to client service.

The firm replaced tape with ExaGrid’s disk-based, scale-out backup system, which uses post-process deduplication and a landing zone to deliver much faster backups and restores. Moving 8 TB to ExaGrid cut the backup window by up to 25% so far, enabled near-instant restores (minutes rather than hours), improved security and scalability for future growth, and delivered measurable ROI while protecting billable hours and client service.

Bird & Bird

Jon Spencer

Infrastructure Manager, Bird & Bird