Case Study: Worcester Art Museum achieves fast, reliable, trouble-free backups with ExaGrid

Worcester Art Museum Chooses ExaGrid for Fast, Reliable Backups

Worcester Art Museum, a long-established cultural institution, needed to replace aging tape drives that could no longer protect its 6 TB of data. Nightly backups had been running 14–20 hours and staff were spending excessive time managing and troubleshooting tape, so the museum began looking for a disk-based, deduplicating solution that would improve reliability and reduce backup windows.

The museum installed an ExaGrid disk-based backup system with zone-level deduplication integrated with Symantec Backup Exec; incremental backups now finish in 2–3 hours (up to an 80% reduction) and weekly fulls plus tape copy run about 26 hours, freeing staff from tape management. The result is dependable, trouble-free backups and faster restores, with a scalable GRID architecture for future capacity growth or a second-site disaster-recovery appliance and responsive vendor support.

Worcester Art Museum

Mark Santora

Director of IS