Case Study: Wink Companies achieves 80% faster backups and eliminates tape headaches with ExaGrid

Wink Companies Dramatically Improves Backup Times With Disk-based Backup

Wink Companies, LLC is a multi-discipline professional design firm (est. 1970) with offices in Louisiana and Mississippi. Running a central datacenter with Symantec Backup Exec to tape, Wink faced 20–24 hour backup windows, frequent tape failures and time-consuming manual tape management that threatened business continuity and productivity.

Wink deployed ExaGrid’s disk‑based backup with post‑process deduplication—integrating with their existing Backup Exec setup—to speed backups and reduce storage needs. The change cut the backup window to about four hours, saved roughly six hours per week of tape handling, eliminated tape-related headaches, and provided scalable capacity and responsive support.

Wink Companies

Adam Schwartzberg

Network Administrator