Case Study: Polk Audio achieves 80% faster backups (from 30+ hours to 6.5 hours) and faster restores with ExaGrid

Polk Audio Chooses ExaGrid over Data Domain for Faster Backups and Restores

Polk Audio, a Maryland-based manufacturer of home, car and personal audio products, was struggling with growing backup demands and the limitations of tape: full weekly backups took over 30 hours, required frequent manual tape changes, and were hard to manage. The IT team needed a fail-safe, easy-to-administer disk-based solution that could keep pace with data growth.

After evaluating ExaGrid and EMC Data Domain, Polk chose ExaGrid’s GRID architecture integrated with Symantec Backup Exec. The solution uses disk-based landing zones and zone-level deduplication, supports concurrent backups and preserves the latest full backup on disk, cutting full backup time from over 30 hours to 6.5 hours, speeding restores, simplifying management, and providing scalable, DR-ready growth with responsive vendor support.

Polk Audio

Melanie Szvitich

Director of IT & Direct Sales Ops