Case Study: Rio Hondo College achieves faster backups and increased retention with ExaGrid

Rio Hondo College Learns About Faster Backups , Increased Retention with ExaGrid

Rio Hondo College, a community college serving over 20,000 students, was overwhelmed by rapidly growing data. Its disk-to-disk-to-tape backups had no deduplication, limiting onsite retention to two days, prolonging backup windows, and making restores slow and cumbersome.

The college deployed an ExaGrid disk-based backup system with CommVault Galaxy, using ExaGrid’s post-process byte-level deduplication and landing zone. This delivered four weeks of local retention, seamless integration and support, and a 50% reduction in backup windows—weekly fulls dropped from 24 to 12 hours and nightly differentials from 8 to 4 hours—while providing easy scalability for future growth.

Rio Hondo College

Van Vuong

Network Specialist