Case Study: Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES achieves faster backups and restores with ExaGrid

Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES cuts full backup time from 40 hours to 8 with ExaGrid

Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES, a regional educational services organization, was facing unacceptably long backup windows, with weekly full backups taking over 40 hours. Their existing system also relied heavily on tape. They needed a faster, more reliable disk-based backup solution to speed up both backups and restores and chose the ExaGrid disk-based backup system with data deduplication to work alongside their existing Commvault backup application.

By implementing ExaGrid's solution, the organization dramatically reduced its backup times. The weekly full backup window was cut from 40 hours down to just 8 hours, and nightly incremental backups were reduced from 6 hours to a maximum of 1.5 hours. ExaGrid also enabled nearly instantaneous restores, provided seamless integration, and made expanding the system easy, which led to the customer adding a second unit. The IT staff also praised ExaGrid for its top-notch and highly knowledgeable customer support.

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