Case Study: The Old Globe Theatre improves backup speed and retention with ExaGrid

The Old Globe Theatre boosts backup speed 30% with ExaGrid

The Old Globe Theatre, a Tony Award-winning regional theatre in San Diego, faced challenges with slow backups and insufficient retention after moving from tape to basic disk storage. Their IT staff spent excessive time managing jobs and restores. They turned to vendor ExaGrid for a tiered backup storage solution to replace their straight disk approach.

ExaGrid implemented its disk-based backup system with post-process data deduplication. The solution provided a 30% faster backup window, increased retention to four months of nightly fulls, and achieved deduplication ratios as high as 52:1 for Exchange data. A full server restore was completed in under an hour. The IT manager noted that ExaGrid reduced his time spent on backups by 70-80%, providing a perfect fit for their environment.

The Old Globe Theatre