Case Study: Los Alamos National Laboratory cuts backup storage by two-thirds and gains scalable, reliable backups with ExaGrid

Los Alamos Takes a New Approach to Backup with ExaGrid, Maximizes Backup Storage and Budget

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Weapons Engineering Division struggled with aging, off‑maintenance disk arrays repurposed for backups, leading to frequent drive failures, time‑consuming monitoring and restarts, and strict, year‑end funding constraints that limited expansion. The team needed a more reliable, scalable backup approach that would fit its budget and operational requirements.

They deployed an ExaGrid appliance behind their existing Dell EMC NetWorker backup software, gaining an easy‑to‑install, scale‑out system with strong vendor support. ExaGrid’s deduplication reduced backup footprint from about 100TB to roughly 30TB, improving storage efficiency, cutting costs, eliminating hardware failures, and enabling future expansion and replication for disaster recovery.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Scott Parkinson

System Administrator