Case Study: The Energy Authority achieves scalable, high-performance backups and avoids 'rip and replace' with ExaGrid

The Energy Authority Avoids ‘Rip and Replace’ by Installing ExaGrid System

The Energy Authority (TEA), a data‑intensive public power trading and risk‑management firm headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, faced a capacity crisis when its disk‑based backup system approached its limits and could not be expanded. IT staff confronted a potential “rip and replace” scenario and needed a scalable, high‑performance backup solution that could grow with their data and protect critical SQL and Oracle RMAN workloads.

TEA selected an ExaGrid GRID‑based system for its price/performance and scalability, deploying a primary appliance in Jacksonville and a secondary offsite system in Atlanta for disaster recovery. ExaGrid’s post‑process, zone‑level deduplication (delivering ~9:1 for Oracle and ~7:1 for SQL) and landing‑zone approach sped backups and restores, simplified management, enabled quick expansion without replacement, and delivered significant disk and WAN bandwidth savings—resulting in a reliable, “set‑and‑forget” backup environment that the team can grow in minutes.

The Energy Authority

Scott Follick

IT Manager, Service Delivery and Support