Case Study: Levene Gouldin & Thompson achieves fast, easy VM restores and scalable backups with ExaGrid

Law Firm Virtualizes with Veeam and ExaGrid, Products ‘Integrate Perfectly’

Levene Gouldin & Thompson (LG&T) is a long‑established regional law firm with nearly 100 attorneys serving Central New York and Northern Pennsylvania. As the firm moved from physical to virtual servers, its tape‑based Arcserve backups became cumbersome, slow to restore, and awkward to manage—especially given a Novell Enterprise Server environment and strict long‑term retention needs—so IT sought a faster, more scalable solution.

LG&T deployed Veeam with an ExaGrid disk‑based backup appliance, using ExaGrid’s high‑speed “landing zone” for instant VM recoveries and easy, file‑level restores. Restores that once required tape jobs now take minutes (about 15), daily automated reports simplify monitoring, and ExaGrid’s scale‑out GRID plus deduplication reduced storage needs and made expansion straightforward. The firm reports faster, more reliable restores, simpler maintenance, and strong satisfaction from IT staff.

Levene Gouldin & Thompson

Mark Goodman

Network Administrator