Case Study: Kaneka Malaysia improves backup performance and retention with ExaGrid and HYCU

Kaneka Malaysia Sdn Bhd cuts backup management time in half with ExaGrid

Kaneka Malaysia Sdn Bhd, an affiliate of the Japanese Kaneka Corporation, faced challenges with a legacy end-to-end backup solution that was difficult to use, created vendor lock-in, and offered poor performance. The MIS team sought a new solution to improve backup management and eliminate these limitations, ultimately selecting a combined solution from vendor ExaGrid, using its tiered backup storage, and the HYCU backup application.

The ExaGrid solution, integrated with HYCU, provided a scalable, high-performance system with improved deduplication and a user-friendly interface. The results included cutting backup management time in half, enabling backup jobs during the workday, and increasing data retention from two weeks to one month. The team also highlighted ExaGrid's strong customer support and the security benefits of its Retention Time-Lock feature for ransomware protection.