WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 25 -- ExaGrid Systems Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication, today announced the availability of ExaGrid 3.0. This new product version provides up to twice the backup and restore performance of previous versions, as well as scalability for a 20TB full backup, plus retention, in a single grid system. ExaGrid has also reduced its system footprint by 50 to 75 percent compared to previous versions.

The latest release of the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup system builds on patented technology and delivers significant product enhancements and customer benefits, including the following:

• Highest performance for data backup and restore:

• Fastest backup performance due to post-process de-duplication. Write directly to disk without any processing on the fly to slow down backups. (Backup throughput: up to 2.1TB per hour, 583MB per second).

• Fastest restore and tape copy performance with byte-level data de-duplication which keeps the most recent backup in its whole form -- unlike other solutions, which require re-assembly from small blocks and large hash tables. (Restore throughput: up to 1.5TB per hour, 417MB per second)

• Scalable virtualized grid architecture:

• ExaGrid provides plug-and-play growth -- new systems virtualize together automatically -- no splitting data or losing de-duplication efficiency across separate systems.

• Performance scales with data growth since processing power and memory are added together with storage capacity.

• Store a 20TB full backup, plus retention of backup history, in a single grid system (Four 5TB single ExaGrid servers in a virtualized grid).

• Energy and rack space efficient operation:

• Enhanced design reduces ExaGrid’s system footprint by 50 to 75 percent versus previous versions.

• Customers can store many times more backup data in the same space for substantial savings in power, cooling and space requirements versus standard disk.

• Most cost-effective solution:

• Granular sizing options “right-size” to specific customer backup data requirements today and in the future.

• No need to over buy storage capacity up front. Systems can be easily combined in a virtualized grid for larger capacities as needed.

• Support for leading backup applications:

• CA ARCserve.

• CommVault Galaxy.

• Symantec Backup Exec.

• Symantec Veritas NetBackup.

• EMC Networker.

• Microsoft SQL Dump.

• VMware Backup (VMDK).

“With a true next-generation architecture, ExaGrid leverages the economic benefits of industry-standard hardware on an advanced 'scale-out' grid platform,” said Arun Taneja, founder and president of the Taneja Group. “The ExaGrid platform perfectly represents where the entire industry must follow: easily deployed, self-contained disk-based data protection 'grids,' with data de-duplication, designed to easily fit into existing datacenters and deliver results right out of the box.”

“Mid-market and small enterprise companies seek cost-effective, disk-based backup solutions with data de-duplication that are scalable and can work quickly and easily with their existing backup applications,” said Marc Crespi, ExaGrid’s vice president of product management. “Our latest product release, ExaGrid 3.0, provides industry-leading backup and restore performance, plug-and-play scalability, and byte-level data de-duplication to meet the data protection needs of our customers.”

The ExaGrid system is a turnkey, plug-and-play solution that works with existing backup applications and enables faster and more reliable backups and restores. Customers report that backup time is reduced by 30 to 80 percent over traditional tape backup. ExaGrid’s patented, byte-level data de-duplication technology and most recent backup compression, coupled with high-quality SATA storage, is on average 25 to 30 percent the price of standard disk storage without data de-duplication. This unique approach reduces the amount of disk space needed by a range of 10 to 50 to 1, or more.

About ExaGrid Systems Inc.

Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., ExaGrid Systems is the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication. A highly scalable system that works with existing backup applications, ExaGrid is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backup windows. ExaGrid’s patented approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups along with byte-level data de-duplication technology for all previous backups. Customers can deploy the ExaGrid system at a primary site and at a second site to supplement or eliminate offsite tapes with a live data repository or for disaster recovery. For more information, visit www.exagrid.com.

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Source: ExaGrid Systems Inc.