Case Study: McVean Trading and Investments achieves faster backups and restores with ExaGrid

McVean Trading and Investments cuts backup storage needs with ExaGrid’s nearly 90:1 deduplication

McVean Trading and Investments, LLC, a futures trading firm, needed a reliable backup solution to protect data across its diverse environment, including Veeam for virtual infrastructure and LaserVault for IBM AS/400 systems. Their existing process involved tape and third-party replication. They sought a consolidated repository that could integrate with both applications and improve storage efficiency, leading them to evaluate ExaGrid's tiered backup storage system.

ExaGrid implemented a system that integrated seamlessly with both Veeam and LaserVault Backup, creating a single repository. The solution provided fast daily backups and impressive deduplication ratios, such as nearly 90:1 for LaserVault data, dramatically maximizing storage capacity. According to IT engineer Dean Proffer, the ExaGrid system proved highly reliable, requiring minimal management, and enabled simple, fast restores that performed like live production data.