Case Study: Trenam Kemker achieves faster backups and major cost savings with ExaGrid

Premier Law Firm Trenam Kemker Gains Cost Savings and Better Backup Times with ExaGrid

Trenam Kemker, a 41‑year‑old Florida law firm with more than 95 attorneys across Tampa and St. Petersburg, was struggling with lengthy, unreliable tape-based backups that often stretched into the work week and slowed the network. Weekly full backups took nearly 48 hours, required 15 tapes and offsite storage costing $200 per month, and consumed many hours of IT staff time for tape handling and troubleshooting.

The firm deployed an ExaGrid disk‑based backup appliance that worked with their existing Symantec Backup Exec, bringing full backup times down to about 12 hours and eliminating tape handling and its associated costs. ExaGrid’s post‑process deduplication produced ratios as high as 60:1 (e.g., ~20TB stored in under 4TB), cut backup management to roughly 15 minutes per week, improved restore reliability and security, and provides scalable growth for future data.

Trenam Kemker

Lori Jones

IT Manager