Case Study: The L&L Company achieves 50% faster backups and near-instant restores with ExaGrid

The L&L Company Reduces Backup and Restore Times with ExaGrid

The L&L Company, a multi-state floor-covering and design firm with 20+ locations, was struggling to protect growing, business‑critical data within a narrow seven‑hour backup window while preparing to move its datacenter to a co‑location facility. Hourly SQL disk backups plus nightly tape fulls were becoming too slow and unreliable for the company’s mixed time zones and expansion plans, and tape logistics and maintenance were unacceptable for off‑site operations.

L&L deployed ExaGrid’s disk‑based backup appliance with data deduplication alongside its existing Symantec Backup Exec, gaining a compact 3U footprint and dramatic storage savings (enabling 60+ days retention). Backups now complete in roughly half the time, restores are nearly instantaneous, and the GRID‑scale architecture allows easy, non‑disruptive expansion—backed by proactive vendor support.

L&L Company

Bob Ruckle

Director of IT