Case Study: Murraysmith achieves massive storage savings and fast, reliable restores with Veeam

ExaGrid Provides Murraysmith Significant Savings on Storage with ‘Incredible’ Deduplication

Murraysmith, a Portland‑based public infrastructure engineering firm, was running an aging Dell EMC Data Domain backup system for its fully virtualized environment and needed a more reliable, low‑maintenance solution to protect large AutoCAD files and frequent file restores without constant monitoring. The IT team sought faster backups, simpler restores, and a scalable platform to handle rapid data growth.

They deployed an ExaGrid‑Veeam solution that writes to a disk landing zone and uses Veeam’s per‑job deduplication plus ExaGrid’s adaptive deduplication and scale‑out architecture. Incremental backups now average ~15 minutes with fast restores and VM recoveries, proactive support reduces admin overhead, and deduplication shrank 540 TB of backup data to just 65 TB on disk, enabling easier management and seamless growth.

Murraysmith

Steve Blair

Network Administrator