Case Study: WeiserMazars achieves faster, more efficient backups with ExaGrid

WeiserMazars Counts on ExaGrid for Faster, More Efficient Backups

WeiserMazars LLP, a century-old accounting, tax and advisory firm with roughly 100 partners and 700 professionals across multiple U.S. offices and abroad, was struggling with rapidly growing data volumes and federally mandated retention of up to seven years. Their tape-based backups were slow, costly to maintain and unable to meet retention and reliability goals, driving the IT team to seek a more efficient solution with deduplication.

They deployed a multi-site ExaGrid system integrated with Symantec Backup Exec, using post-process data deduplication and cross-site replication for disaster recovery. Backups that once took up to 14 hours now complete in a few hours (and regional jobs dropped from four hours to one), tape purchases and heavy administration were eliminated, and the scalable GRID architecture provides room for growth—delivering faster, more reliable backups and strong ROI.

WeiserMazars

Egan Richards

Assistant Director of IT