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November 15, 2024

Recap of 58th IT Press Tour in Boston, MA

With 8 companies: Congruity360, ExaGrid, HYCU, Hydrolix, iRODS, Swissbit, Sync Computing and Wasabi - This 58th edition of The IT Press Tour took place in Boston, MA, early October and all the press group and organizations had time exchanging about IT...

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Bill Andrews, CEO ExaGrid: ‘Bij grote datavolumes kan gewone opslag simpelweg niet volgen’

Veel bedrijven zetten hun back-ups op primary storage: lees: ‘gewone’ opslag. Alleen kunnen ze dat vaak niet blijven doen. De datavolumes groeien zo snel, dat het niet meer lukt om een back-up op te slaan in het beschikbare ‘window’. ‘Primary storage...

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November 13, 2024

Massachusetts rzuca rękawicę Kalifornii

Choć za kolebkę innowacyjnych technologii wciąż uchodzi Kalifornia, to coraz więcej do powiedzenia mają też- rmy zMassachusetts.

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November 11, 2024

Innovation in Data Management: Key Insights from the 58th IT Press Tour

Explore critical data management, storage, and cloud technology innovations from six leading tech companies during the 58th IT Press Tour in Boston. Eight companies presented their solutions, revealing several key themes shaping the enterprise technology...

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November 10, 2024

ExaGrid: Redefining Enterprise Backup Storage with Tiered Architecture

Explore ExaGrid's tiered backup storage solution: Fast backups, efficient deduplication, and robust ransomware protection for enterprise data centers. In the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise data management, backup storage remains a critical yet often...

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November 8, 2024

The French Storage Podcast, Episode 235 – Interview with Bill Andrews, CEO, ExaGrid

ExaGrid, the pure player and market leader in secondary storage with dedicated backup appliance, joined the recent edition of The IT Press Tour in Boston. The session we had with Bill Andrews, CEO, at the company HQ invited me to record a specific interview to...

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November 1, 2024

ExaGrid, een stabiele back-up en restore optie

Data, data en nog eens data, het is de brandstof voor ondernemingen en zeker als die steeds meer met AI gaan doen. Al die data is dan vloeibaar goud. De volumes die geproduceerd worden zijn net zo groot als de waarde: onschatbaar. Om die reden moet data...

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October 29, 2024

ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage

At the IT Press Tour, tiered backup storage provider ExaGrid announced partnerships with Commvault and Veeam.

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October 23, 2024

ExaGrid says ‘McDonald’s franchise’ go-to-market is clearly winning

Data backup appliance vendor ExaGrid is reporting wider growth for its joint go-to-market with partners. Overall, the company’s sales are said to be growing 15% a year, as the firm sees ever-more sales outside its established US market.

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ExaGrid on acquisition path, claims some of its rivals ‘on life support’

Backup appliance vendor ExaGrid recently reported a very positive third quarter, described by the firm as the best in its history. President and CEO Bill Andrews has since elaborated on the company’s financials, and claims a number of its rival firms are...

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October 21, 2024

ExaGrid Takes Aim at Backup Storage Market with Innovative Tiered Approach

In the ever-evolving world of data storage and protection, one company is making waves with a unique approach to backup storage. ExaGrid, a Massachusetts-based technology firm, is challenging industry giants with its innovative "tiered backup storage"...

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ExaGrid se positionne pour répondre aux exigences de Dora

L'architecture à plusieurs niveaux d'ExaGrid, combinée à une protection renforcée contre les ransomwares, permet de garantir l'intégrité et la disponibilité des données même en cas d'attaque majeure.

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October 15, 2024

ExaGrid, la force tranquille de la sauvegarde

L'architecture à plusieurs niveaux d'ExaGrid, combinée à une protection renforcée contre les ransomwares, permet de garantir l'intégrité et la disponibilité des données même en cas d'attaque majeure.

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October 11, 2024

ExaGrid, a leader a bit confidential

Reference in secondary storage dedicated to backup, ExaGrid participated to The IT Press Tour I organized this week in Boston, MA. We met Bill Andrews, CEO, yesterday and it was the right opportunity for a company and product update.

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October 9, 2024

ExaGrid reports record Q3 with 150 new customers

Privately held ExaGrid says it has recorded its strongest Q3 in the company’s history, gaining 150 new customers to take its total past 4,400. ...

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September 30, 2024

Veeam Blog: Veeam Innovation Awards for 2024

Veeam recently announced the winners of its Veeam Innovation Awards (VIAs) as part of our annual VeeamON conference. Each year, customers and partners are nominated over several weeks in the fall, after which a judging panel curates around 100 nominations....

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August 28, 2024

ExaGrid shines up systems, gets Metallic

Backup target system supplier ExaGrid now supports Commvault’s Metallic backup software. ...

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August 9, 2024

ExaGrid steps up its support for Veeam with latest platform

ExaGrid has updated its Tiered Backup Storage system with extra support for Veeam workloads. ...

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August 7, 2024

Veeam Blog: How Veeam and ExaGrid Deliver Best-in-Class, Enterprise-level Data Protection with Comprehensive Security

The less you need to think about backup, the better. But in order to slough off the burden of backup worries to focus on other IT priorities, you need deep and abiding trust in your backup solution. What does that look like? ...

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July 16, 2024

Backup bods at ExaGrid claim sales boosted in latest quarter

Privately owned ExaGrid says it added 137 new customers for its deduping backup target appliances in the latest quarter, claiming it added 64 six- and seven-figure deals to break its own sales records. The corporation did not reveal revenues and is not obliged...

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March 27, 2024

ExaGrid EX189

Enterprises facing rapidly growing backup demands and ever shrinking windows of opportunity need to rethink their data protection strategies. ExaGrid is the ideal solution as the Tiered Backup Storage systems deliver a smart scale-out solution, and the latest...

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January 8, 2024

ExaGrid says 48% of its business now outside of USA

Privately-owned ExaGrid claims to have notched up record bookings and revenue during the final three months of 2023. ...

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November 14, 2023

Surviving a cyberattack? It ain’t what you store, it’s the way you restore it

ExaGrid explains why backup and storage tiers can prevent cyber security tears.

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July 31, 2023

An innovator delivering excellent, one-of-a-kind backup storage: ExaGrid

The daily news is all we need to glance at to become aware of the growing risk posed by cyberattacks. We have seen a significant increase in cybercrime in recent years, which has been largely attached to the popularity of remote work. Emerging technologies...

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July 18, 2023

ExaGrid Grew 27% from 2Q22 to 2Q23

ExaGrid announced that it had its strongest 2Q in the company’s history, for the quarter ending June 30, 2023. ...

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April 24, 2023

ExaGrid: The Data Backup and Recovery Stalwart

Businesses are generating more data than ever, and the trend shows no sign of slowing down. They need significant investments to scale their backup storage capacity to back up data as it accumulates. Backup data security is another concern. Despite most...

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April 12, 2023

ExaGrid claims uptick in customers in Q1

Privately held ExaGrid claims it had a record-breaking first 2023 quarter, with a customer count that’s now risen past 3,800. ...

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March 24, 2023

ExaGrid’s Integration with Veeam Fast Clone

ExaGrid has always been a top choice for enterprise data backup and disaster recovery as its Tiered Backup Storage family of EX appliances offer a unique set of data protection features. Furthermore, integration with all the leading backup applications allows...

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March 9, 2023

Private Company Spotlight: ExaGrid

ExaGrid – Leader in Tiered Backup Storage. Our Q&A With Bill Andrews, President and CEO

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February 10, 2023

Winners Guide – SDC Awards 2022

33 reasons to be cheerful! ENERGY PRICES going through the roof, a cost of living crisis, the aftershocks of the pandemic, gloomy economic forecasts…sometimes it’s all too easy to concentrate on life’s (admittedly significant) downsides, with optimism...

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January 17, 2023

ExaGrid experiences continued success, supported by recognition at Network Computing Awards

With nominations now open for the 2023 Network Computing Awards, ExaGrid, winners of Company of the Year for three consecutive years, share their experience of being a part of the awards. ...

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January 10, 2023

ExaGrid thinks it can be a billion-dollar company

Despite the worldwide economy heading into recession due to COVID, Russian war on Ukraine and inflation, ExaGrid says it has increased its sales in the fourth 2022 quarter, recruited more customers than ever before, and claims to be having a record revenue...

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October 4, 2022

ExaGrid’s Intelligent Backup Storage Fosters Business Continuity

Protection from cybersecurity and disaster recovery are primary concerns for organizations today. ExaGrid offers a unique Tiered Backup Storage approach to ensure that attackers cannot compromise the backup data, allowing organizations to be confident that...

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September 30, 2022

Not all deduplication is created equal

Deduplication is key to managing backup costs, but it is important to consider which approach will work best in your backup environment. Here you will find a comparison of different approaches.

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August 9, 2022

Ransomware protection has become a critical channel upsell

The disruptive potential of ransomware has made it many organisations’ top security priority. With even well-resourced firms like SHI International and AMD joining the list of compromised companies, businesses are calling on managed service providers (MSPs)...

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July 12, 2022

ExaGrid’s regular as clockwork growth machine

ExaGrid has recorded another record-breaking revenue and bookings quarter, taking its customer count past 3,400. ...

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April 14, 2022

There’s no flash in ExaGrid’s plan, says exec

ExaGrid makes disk-based purpose-built backup appliances and its CEO told us he sees no need to move to flash media. ...

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April 13, 2022

Tiered backup storage player ExaGrid turns in Q1 numbers

Privately-owned ExaGrid has reported what it says is its sixth consecutive quarter of revenue growth, as it fights for market share with on-premises disk-based, purpose-built backup appliance makers. ...

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March 31, 2022

ExaGrid EX84 with Commvault – Product Review

Commvault fans will approve of this approach as they can retain their existing data protection infrastructure and integrate ExaGrid into it to provide the backend storage. More importantly, they can continue to enjoy the clear benefits of Commvault's...

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March 14, 2022

ExaGrid x Commvault = Enhanced Storage Economics

ExaGrid stands tall in the enterprise data backup and disaster recovery market as its Tiered Backup Storage family of EX appliances deliver a unique data protection solution with a sharp focus on performance and reduced storage costs. Even more compelling is...

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January 24, 2022

ESG says Commvault + ExaGrid gets up to 15:1 dedupe ratio

Analysis house ESG says users can get a fifteenfold reduction in backup size by using an ExaGrid array as a backup target for Commvault. ...

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January 12, 2022

Colourful ExaGrid spills the competitive beans

We had a briefing from ExaGrid President and CEO Bill Andrews after hearing about its final 2021 quarter results. He provided us with a little more colour, as he put it.

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January 11, 2022

Sticking to its knitting – ExaGrid breaks records again

Backup target array supplier ExaGrid has notched up another record-breaking quarter with bookings and revenue highs set in the USA, Canada, Latin America, EMEA and APAC regions. ...

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November 30, 2021

Data Protection Gumbo: Episode 122 – 2021 State of Backup Appliances – ExaGrid

Marc Crespi, Director of Product Marketing at ExaGrid dives into the state of backup appliances, some details on data deduplication, his view of the security landscape, and some of the limitations of storing data in the cloud.

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November 24, 2021

ExaGrid Assigned Three Patents

ExaGrid Systems, Inc., Marlborough, MA, has been assigned a patent (11,163,727) developed by Hansen, Thomas G., Bellingham, MA, Martinelli, Daniel P., Hopkinton, MA, Makosky, Lucas H., Harvard, MA, Hecker, Mark B., Northborough, MA, Smith, Stephen A., Bedford,...

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August 2, 2021

Solving for all key backup challenges in a single solution

ExaGrid's lifetime value, investment protection and customer support is unmatched.Backup storage is moving to a top-of-mind issue amid growing volumes of data, the need for compliance with more legislation and the ever-increasing threat of ransomware, reports...

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July 28, 2021

Cintech Partners with ExaGrid

(original in Portuguese) The partnership with the renowned manufacturer of tiered backup storage comes to complement the range of protection and storage solutions offered by the reseller. With the growing need of companies for robust equipment, compatible with...

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July 14, 2021

ExaGrid Revenue Grew 50% Y/Y and 10% Q/Q

ExaGrid had an all-time record bookings and revenue in the quarter ending June 30, 2021. This accomplishment was on the back of its record-breaking quarter in 1Q21, increasing both bookings and revenue to a new all-time high. Revenue grew over 50% as compared...

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April 26, 2021

ExaGrid Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery – Product Review

Ransomware attacks are proving to be extremely profitable for hackers, and organisations that think their backups provide sufficient protection could be in for a nasty surprise. These attacks are constantly evolving and the latest threats specifically target...

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April 13, 2021

ExaGrid becomes cash-positive, passes 3,000 customers

ExaGrid recruited more than 120 new customers in the first 2021 quarter and has become cash-flow positive. The data backup startup said it also posted record sales in EMEA. "We have actually had three really strong quarters in a row. The company continues to...

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March 31, 2021

ExaGrid EX84 – Product Review

Storage Magazine - March/April 2021 issue. Enterprises struggling with rapidly growing data centre storage capacities need to find new ways to energise their data protection strategies. If backup and restore performance can’t keep up with these demands then...

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January 18, 2021

ExaGrid goes big with backup appliances

ExaGrid has increased capacity in its deduplicating backup appliances and at the same time, cut the product portfolio from nine systems to seven. Appliances of any size can be mixed and matched in a 32-appliance cluster.

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October 23, 2020

Ransomware is Everywhere

Bill Andrews, President & CEO of ExaGrid, outlines the steps necessary to ensure that organisations can recover from ransomware attacks with minimal impact on the business.

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October 9, 2020

Your occasional storage digest: Backblaze anti-ransomware, Fibre Channel speed clarifications, OpenDrives NAS clusters, K8s problem-solving and more

CEO Bill Andrews said: “We are replacing low-cost primary storage disk from Dell, HPE, and NTAP behind Commvault and Veeam, as ExaGrid is far less expensive for longer-term retention. We are also consistently replacing Dell EMC Data Domain and HPE StoreOnce...

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September 26, 2020

ExaGrid Time-Lock – Who’s (still) afraid of ransomware?

Ransomware currently represents one of the most prominent threats to IT infrastructures. Reports of successful attacks are accumulating, the attacks are getting closer. More than 30% of all companies, institutes, universities or public authorities in Germany...

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August 28, 2020

Storage Review Podcast #62: Bill Andrews, ExaGrid

On this week’s podcast, Brian sits down with Bill Andrews, the CEO of ExaGrid. ExaGrid provides hardware solutions for the enterprise backup and recovery market. ExaGrid has 2700 customers and is growing quickly, largely by displacing legacy backup target...

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August 20, 2020

Backup to the Future

In the July/August 2020 issue of Storage Magazine, Bill Andrews, president & CEO of ExaGrid, examines the journey from simple tape backups to tiered disk backups that use adaptive deduplication for fast, reliable and affordable backup and restore solutions.

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July 20, 2020

Dell trains its sights on Exagrid

Dell is training up its Data Domain channel to battle Exagrid in the purpose-built, deduplicating backup to disk market.

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April 14, 2020

ExaGrid EX21000E review: Super-efficient backup storage

Businesses struggling to fit ever-increasing backup and disaster recovery requirements into dwindling windows of opportunity will find ExaGrid’s EX series of backup appliances stand out for a number of sound reasons. They deliver a tiered storage solution...

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March 31, 2020

ExaGrid EX63000E – Product Review

ExaGrid has always been a great choice for enterprise backup because the EX appliance family delivers everything that is required to stay within your backup window and its budget.

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March 12, 2020

Long-Term Retention with Veeam Availability Suite V10 and ExaGrid

Tom Gillispie, Director of Application Interoperability at ExaGrid, showcases how long-term retention works together with ExaGrid in the NEW Veeam Availability Suite v10.

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January 21, 2020

First Distribution appointed as strategic Pan-African distributor for ExaGrid

First Distribution is proud to announce it has been appointed as the strategic Pan-African distributor for ExaGrid. ExaGrid provides backup storage with data deduplication and is designed to run behind a wide variety of third-party backup applications. ...

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January 9, 2020

2020 Predictions From 45 Storage Vendors – Part One

A few days following the 2019 vendors’ facts and review publication, Storage Newsletter publishes its classic annual vendors’ predictions for 2020. It collects 45 opinions and consolidates them to find some majors trends and directions for the storage...

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December 17, 2019

ExaGrid Integrated With Veeam Software to Meet Backup Requirements for Enterprise Data Centers

ExaGrid announced further momentum for joint enterprise customers with Veeam Software, Inc. ...

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December 16, 2019

Backup Your Stuff

Protecting company's data against threats like systems failure, site-wide disaster and ransomware should be at forefront of any IT strategy. We speak to industry experts who weigh in on the growing opportunity of backup and recovery solutions for IT solution...

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December 10, 2019

ExaGrid and Veeam Meet Emerging Backup Requirements for Enterprise Data Centers

ExaGrid, a leading provider of intelligent hyperconverged storage for backup, today announced further momentum for joint enterprise customers with Veeam Software, the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management. The combined solution...

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October 17, 2019

Efficient IT Music to Her Ears

ExaGrid Customer Shawntee Cowan, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Duncanville Independent School District in Texas, was featured in the Fall 2019 issue of Toggle Magazine. Read about her journey of transitioning from music teacher to CTO of the school...

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April 19, 2019

ExaGrid and Zerto Announce Integrated Solution for Real-Time Backup and Recovery

Zerto’s continuous data protection (CDP) ensures that changes are constantly recorded to the Zerto Elastic Journal so that recovery points are kept up to date. The platform converges disaster recovery (DR) and backup for continuous availability. This...

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April 18, 2019

Your Easter enterprise storage getaway

Exagrid, with its deduping to disk array backup target, and Zerto with continuous data protection disaster recovery software, have a combined backup/disaster recovery offering.

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April 8, 2019

Backup for a minute and scan this data protection news

A constant of life is that data protection products are always getting better. Five recent data protection news stories exemplify this, with Acronis, ExaGrid, Unitrends and Spectra Logic in two cases improving products and operations.

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March 1, 2019

Network Computing Product Review: ExaGrid EX63000E

On review is the ExaGrid flagship EX63000E. It's a 4U appliance offering truly enormous storage potential with a full backup capacity of 63TB; it can scale up to 32 appliances, offering a total of 2PB. Capacity can also be tailored to your budget as the...

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February 6, 2019

Top Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2018

ExaGrid included in Storage Newsletter’s list of the Top Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2018.

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January 4, 2019

Your occasional storage digest featuring ExaGrid, WANdisco and WekaIO

Early January storage roundup news shows speed has paid off for deduplicating backupper ExaGrid and WANdisco and WekaIO. One W-vendor sends lots of data across networks at high speed. The other provides fast access to files using parallel IO streams.

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August 13, 2018

VAD Technologies and ExaGrid announce ME distribution partnership

Hyper-converged secondary storage for backup provider ExaGrid has announced the expansion of its Middle Eastern coverage with the appointment of Rami Nasser as its regional sales director for the Middle East, India, and Africa. The firm will be adding sales...

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June 14, 2018

Mastering the Art of Backing Up

Good data protection management means having effective processes and methodologies in place to maintain data integrity. But how is the backup and data protection market shaping up in the region?

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May 14, 2018

Scale-out storage vendor ExaGrid looks to continue momentum with Nutanix

ExaGrid recently unveiled a new top-of-the-line appliance, and entered into a Nutanix-focused partnership with data protection provider HYCU. At the recent New Orleans Nutanix .NEXT event, ExaGrid was communicating its message to Nutanix partners and customers...

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April 11, 2018

ExaGrid Grew 20% from 1Q17 to 1Q18

First generation deduplication solutions can be cost prohibitive for backup storage and are also slow for backups, restores, and VM boots, which is why over 80% of ExaGrid's newly-acquired customers are replacing Dell EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce, Commvault...

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March 16, 2018

Top Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2017

ExaGrid included in Storage Newsletter's list of the Top Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2017.

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February 15, 2018

A More Elegant (and Affordable) Approach to Nutanix Backups

One of the more perplexing challenges that Nutanix administrators face is how to protect the data in their Nutanix deployments.

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February 12, 2018

ExaGrid Announces Largest Scale-out System, EX63000

ExaGrid announced its largest, most powerful appliance in its arsenal of backup storage with data deduplication - the EX63000E. The appliance has 58% more capacity than its predecessor, allowing for a 63TB full backup.

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January 8, 2018

Excitable Backupper ExaGrid Eyes IPO

ExaGrid says it's steering a methodical path to an eventual IPO unlike reckless cash-burning storage startups that fail or need to be acquired (rescued).

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August 11, 2017

Disk-based backup a thing of the past? Not so fast, according to ExaGrid Systems

As companies increasingly turn to virtualization for their computing needs, the transition is also spurring innovation in data storage solutions.

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February 3, 2016

Three Storage Upstarts Hit Back at Doom, Gloom ‘n’ Layoffs News

Amidst the six-way storage startup staff lay-off gloom, another three companies* are going the other way. ExaGrid, ownCloud and Simplivity are showing the storage market still has a thirst for great products. Wake up competitors, and smell the coffee.

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December 7, 2015

Zerto Adds ExaGrid Dedupe

ExaGrid and Zerto have partnered to deliver complementary solutions - CDP along with long-term archiving - improving performance and cost efficiency in IT datacenters.

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October 9, 2015

ExaGrid, Simplivity and Zadara: Storage Slowdown? Not for Us

Three storage startups claim they are still experiencing strong growth, even while mainstream vendors' revenue expansion remains disappointing. And the reason? Well, if you asked these three, it could be as simple as better or more efficient technology.

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August 25, 2015

Storing in an Undeduplicated Form Means a Faster Restore

ExaGrid's growth is a reminder that Data Domain is not having everything its own way in the deduping back-up-to-disk market. V4.9 of ExaGrid's appliance software has global deduplication across all NAS shares and appliances in a scale-out GRID, along with...

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August 17, 2015

ExaGrid Releases Software 4.9 With Expanded Deduplication & Oracle RMAN Support

ExaGrid announced that it has updated its software for its line of backup storage appliances to the latest version, 4.9. This update offers two key features: supporting data deduplication globally across all NAS shares and all appliances in a single scale-out...

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ExaGrid Upgrade Expands Dedupe, Oracle RMAN Channels Support

ExaGrid has always supported Oracle, but its newly unveiled support of Oracle RMAN Channels enables enterprises to back up Oracle databases up to 800 terabytes. RMAN Channels automatically writes sections in parallel to all NAS shares, and then automatically...

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June 22, 2015

Key considerations when moving data backup from tape to disk with data deduplication

For decades, IT organisations have performed nightly backup of all their data to tape, which has been used primarily due to low cost. The retention of most organisations is typically 12 weeks onsite and can be up to as much as seven years offsite.

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June 3, 2015

ExaGrid Appoints EMEA, APAC Vice President

ExaGrid, a provider of disk-based backup storage, has appointed Andy Walsky as the VP of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC). Walsky will focus on the further development of the reseller channel and hiring of sales...

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May 27, 2015

Get Answers For System Sizing Of Backup Storage With Data Deduplication

Data deduplication compares each backup to previous backups and only stores the bytes or blocks that change. Employing data deduplication with backup storage greatly reduces the amount of disk storage required and also saves on WAN bandwidth as only the...

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April 1, 2015

VSM Interview with ExaGrid CEO, Bill Andrews

There are a lot of changes in the datacenter. Servers are being virtualized and fast read storage is now flash versus spinning. Organizations are using some cloud applications but are still mostly running their own. Some organizations are looking to...

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March 3, 2015

ExaGrid Expands in Crowded Backup Appliance Market

Since it began selling deduplication backup appliances in 2008, ExaGrid has watched its competition expand in the form of large vendors such as EMC, Symantec, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems plus a plethora of smaller companies. Yet, ExaGrid...

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February 18, 2015

ExaGrid Nibbles at EMC’s Ankles

If you just provide one product — you need to make it better than a rival that sells lots of different ones. That’s why one Massachusetts company thinks it’s beating another local giant. The David in this story is Westborough, Mass.-based ExaGrid whose...

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February 4, 2015

ExaGrid CEO Making Big Investments in 100 Percent Channel Model

ExaGrid Systems CEO Bill Andrews said the fast-growing deduplication backup appliance company is making big investments in its 100 percent channel sales model as it moves to disrupt large competitors such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and Symantec.

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February 3, 2015

Boosting Backup Capacity with Virtual Servers

Over the past two decades, IT departments have had dedicated physical servers per application. Disk storage is associated with each server as direct attached, network attached, or storage area network storage.

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January 27, 2015

10 Predictions for Data Protection in 2015

In most respects, data backup has been done the same way for 30 years. Change is slower in backup than any other area in IT. The reason is that backup is a complicated problem.

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January 19, 2015

ExaGrid Posts Record Growth in 2014 with Double-Digit Revenue Growth and Cash-Positive Status

ExaGrid Systems Inc. has announced that it had double-digit growth from 2013 to 2014. For its fourth quarter revenue, the company had record bookings and was both cash and P&L positive in all four quarters of last year and for the entire year of 2014.

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January 13, 2015

ExaGrid Posts Record Growth in 2014

Revolutionary backup storage provider ExaGrid Systems announced today that it had double-digit growth from 2013 to 2014, earning record bookings for its fourth quarter revenue and year.

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January 9, 2015

Data Backup Hardware: 2014 Products of the Year Finalists

The 10 finalists in the data backup hardware category for the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2014 Products of the Year award offer competitive, feature-rich data protection products.

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January 8, 2015

Moving from tape to disk backup with data deduplication

For over 50 years, IT organizations have performed nightly backup of all their data to tape, which has been used primarily due to low cost. The retention of most organizations is typically 12 weeks onsite and can be up to as much as seven years offsite.

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December 22, 2014

ExaGrid Predictions for Data Protection for 2015

Tape backup will be relegated to either offsite DR or for long-term version history. Backing up to tape at the primary site will virtually disappear in 2015 and will be replaced with disk-based backup with data deduplication. 50% of all offsite DR will be tape...

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December 16, 2014

ExaGrid Brings Scale-Out Disk-based Backup with Deduplication to the Enterprise Data Centre

ExaGrid Systems has announced the largest, most powerful appliance in its arsenal of back up solutions with data deduplication: the EX32000E.

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November 25, 2014

ExaGrid Systems Named ‘Recommended’ Solution for Disk Backup by DCIG for Midrange Organizations

Dominating two of the most recent buyer's guides from independent analyst firm DCIG, ExaGrid Systems, Inc. earned the top 6 of the top 10 positions in the DCIG 2014-15 Deduplicating Backup Appliance Under $50K Buyer's Guide and 7 of the top 10 positions in the...

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November 12, 2014

ExaGrid Veeam Accelerated Data Mover Improves Performance for Veeam Synthetic Full by 6X According the New ESG Lab Report

Today, ExaGrid Systems, a leading provider of disk-based backup solutions, announced that prominent IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has tested and validated the creation of Veeam synthetic full backups using the ExaGrid-Veeam Accelerated Data...

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November 4, 2014

Why ExaGrid & Veeam are Rockin’ VM Backup and Restore – and ROI

Let's face it, you built your data center for one reason: to generate revenue. The return on investment of your hardware, software, and people really depends on what you do with that infrastructure: Is it mostly used for production activities? Or is there a...

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October 23, 2014

Tips for Better Deduplication

Deduplication can now be regarded as a mature technology. It’s been around for a decade and in that time has become an integral part of backup and storage processes. But that doesn’t mean the technology has become static. Deduplication strategies have...

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October 17, 2014

ExaGrid Buffs Up Its Disk Backup Appliances

ExaGrid is squeezing more disk backup capacity and performance out of its grid-based, disk backup systems.

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October 16, 2014

ExaGrid EX32000E Appliance Backup Solution Announced

ExaGrid Systems has announced the EX32000E backup appliance solution, which replaces the very versatile EX21000E as its largest and most powerful appliance to date highlighted by data deduplication and their data landing zone.

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October 8, 2014

Updating your backup approach — from physical servers to virtualized environments

Backup is often at the bottom of the list for IT teams -- an afterthought even -- but having an effective backup and disaster recovery plan in place means considering backup as an important piece of the IT strategy. Over the past two decades, IT departments...

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October 7, 2014

Out with the old and in with the new: How backup changes from physical servers to virtualized environments

Backup is often at the bottom of the list for IT teams -- an afterthought even -- but having an effective backup and disaster recovery plan in place means considering backup as an important piece of the IT strategy. Over the past two decades, IT departments...

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Deduplication Appliance Buying Guide

Gartner recently came out with a Magic Quadrant for deduplication backup target appliances. The analyst firm named EMC and HP as leaders, with Quantum and ExaGrid also receiving good grades.

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October 6, 2014

ExaGrid at VeeamON 2014

ExaGrid’s disk-based backup appliances are engineered to provide a straightforward and reliable backup experience for VMware customers using Veeam backup software. Combining the two virtual server data protection solutions allows customers to utilize Veeam...

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October 3, 2014

Storage Review’s ExaGrid EX21000E Disk Backup Appliance Review

The ExaGrid EX21000E is a deduplication appliance for backup and recovery that is about as flexible as it gets. With support for over 20 backup software packages, scale-out architecture that expands compute with capacity and rapid recovery using the landing...

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April 23, 2014

Straight Talk: Disk Staging

Since disk has historically been too expensive compared to tape, most IT organizations found a middle ground by using a small amount of disk between the backup/media server and the tape library to hold the most recent one to two weeks of backup data. Disk...

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April 16, 2014

Data Backed Up by ExaGrid Up 108% in Two Years

Research confirms that data growth remains a major backup challenge for organisations. Conducted on ExaGrid's behalf by Onva Consulting Limited, the research highlights the benefits of ExaGrid's landing zone and scale-out approach to backup and included...

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April 14, 2014

Solving the Data Growth Challenge

New research from ExaGrid Systems based on responses from over 400 customers has confirmed that data growth remains a major backup challenge for organizations.

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April 11, 2014

ExaGrid’s Backup Technology Solves Predicted Data Growth Challenges

Feedback from over 400 customers validates the leadership of ExaGrid's unique landing zone and scale-out approach to backup. It shows that by selecting ExaGrid, organisations can transform the performance of their backup and restore processes, and...

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Rise of Disk Storage Leaves tape with Specialized Backup Role

For agencies with mid-range requirements, tape has steadily been losing ground to disk-based systems in the cost for performance equation. And today, tools are available to simplify the transfer of data from tape to disk-drive based systems.

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April 9, 2014

Straight Talk: Backup to Tape

Exploring the deficiencies of tape and how backing up to disk can help address these problems.

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March 26, 2014

Straight Talk: Introduction to Disk Backup with Deduplication

The movement from using tape for backup to using disk for backup is well underway, with about 70 per cent of IT organisations now using disk staging in front of a tape library onsite, and approximately 15 per cent of IT organisations having replaced their...

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February 21, 2014

ExaGrid CEO: Cloud Backups ‘Virtually Disappeared’ From Our Market

As a small private company competing with EMC, Symantec, Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) in a market that some see is in decline, ExaGrid certainly faces a big challenge in the target deduplication appliance field. But ExaGrid CEO Bill Andrews says his company...

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January 14, 2014

Tipping the Scale

According to feedback from over 400 ExaGrid customers, the relentless growth in data will continue unchecked in 2014, while 88 percent of businesses see data growth as having the biggest impact on the backup and restore infrastructure in 2014.

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Patent Innovation From ExaGrid

ExaGrid has been awarded a new patent for "Systems and Methods for Managing Delta Versions". The innovation is the sixth patent ExaGrid has been awarded and reflects the company's commitment to developing the most advanced disk-based backup solutions on the...

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January 10, 2014

ExaGrid Grew 10% From 3Q13 to 4Q13

"ExaGrid achieved a number of great milestones in 2013," said Bill Andrews, CEO, ExaGrid. "ExaGrid has the first and only product in the category of scale-out disk-based backup with data deduplication. Customers increasingly understand the need to add compute...

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January 9, 2014

Backup Dedupe Bods ExaGrid: We’re ‘Cash-Positive’ this Is Our Year

Deduplicating backup-to-disk startup ExaGrid is now cash-positive and thinks this could be its breakout year. ExaGrid is one of several suppliers trailing along behind EMC's Data Domain unit in the deduplicating backup-to-disk system market. Even with what...

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December 20, 2013

The 50 top-funded tech firms in Boston

The list is part of this week's Boston Business Journal print cover story, headlined "They Might Be Giants." The story looks at which Boston tech companies have the potential to grow large and stay independent over the long term — leading to the creation of...

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December 12, 2013

Grid Claims Patent Edge in Backup War

While there are many wars in tech, perhaps none is as intense as that waged in the backup market, and ExaGrid is pulling out a new weapon. No, it’s not a hot new feature or super discounts. It is Patent number 8,589,363.

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December 11, 2013

ExaGrid Introducing Universal Backup Share

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. introduced Universal Backup Share, a product feature that further expands the advantages of its zone-level deduplication over traditional block-level deduplication approaches by providing the ability to accept backup data from a...

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December 10, 2013

A Tale of Two Architectures

The key difference between scale-up and scale-out architectures is that scale-up treats backup as just a storage problem. But backup is a data movement, data processing and data storage problem. As a result, because scale-up only provides a single resource...

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December 6, 2013

ExaGrid Wins ‘Product of the Year’ at Techworld Awards 2013

ExaGrid's EX13000E has been named 'Storage/Big Data Product of the Year' at the Techworld Awards 2013. "ExaGrid beat off stiff competition to win the Techworld 'Storage/Big Data Product of the Year Award' because of its powerful combination of scalability,...

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ExaGrid Wins ‘Product of the Year’ at Techworld Awards 2013

ExaGrid's EX13000E has been named 'Storage/Big Data Product of the Year' at the Techworld Awards 2013. This win extends the company's successful streak for being ranked as best-in-class for disk-based backup with deduplication. The EX13000E was selected for...

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November 28, 2013

Why Primary Storage Snapshots and Traditional Backups Should Complement Each Other

Bill Andrews, CEO and president at ExaGrid Systems, has published the third book in his ‘Straight Talk’ series, Straight Talk About Primary Storage Snapshots and Traditional Backups, to help IT teams better understand the complementary nature of primary...

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November 27, 2013

Situation Analysis: Why Primary Storage Snapshots and Traditional Backups Should Complement Each Other

IT departments looking to implement new solutions are generally forced to decide between two paths: short-term gain vs. long-term solution. One meets the immediate need, the other meets business goals -- few solutions can do both. For many organizations,...

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November 19, 2013

ExaGrid Unveils New High-End Backup Appliance

ExaGrid last month unveiled its biggest backup appliance yet, the EX21000E, which holds can hold up to 210 TB of full backups when 10 of them are linked together in a grid. And thanks to a partnership with LaserVault, pushing backups from the IBM i server...

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November 4, 2013

EMC Backup Rival ExaGrid Eyes Growth Above Last Year’s $36M in Sales

ExaGrid saw $36 million in revenue in 2012 and expects to see growth above that amount this year — while also being poised to become cash-flow positive early next year, CEO Bill Andrews said in an interview.

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October 28, 2013

Products of the Week

NetworkWorld's roundup of intriguing new products includes ExaGrid's newly-released EX21000E.

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ExaGrid EX21000E D2D 4U Backup Appliance

Like its entire backup family, the new appliance keeps the backup window fixed in time forever, and delivers the fastest restores - regardless of data growth. No other backup architecture can match this commitment, because only it solves the compute problems...

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October 24, 2013

ExaGrid Deduplication Boxes Get Bigger, Faster

Disk backup and deduplication specialist ExaGrid brought out its biggest and fastest system this week, an appliance that holds 21 TB of raw data and can scale to 210 TB by clustering 10 boxes.

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October 22, 2013

ExaGrid… Heave: Storage Troops Push Out Range-Topping Dedupe Box

Backup data keeps on growing so backup to disk systems have to grow their capacity and speed so as to able to deal with the amount of backup data in the time window available. ExaGrid arrays can be pooled in a grid of 10 machines with global post-process...

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ExaGrid Solves Data Growth Challenges for Backup and Restore

Like the entire ExaGrid backup family, the new appliance continues to do the inconceivable: it keeps the backup window fixed in time forever, and delivers the fastest restores – regardless of data growth. No other backup architecture can match this...

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October 21, 2013

ExaGrid Solves Data Growth Challenges for Backup and Restore

ExaGrid Systems, the company consistently ranked ‘best at backup’ by leading experts, extends its lead with its latest appliance, the EX21000E. Like the entire ExaGrid backup family, the new appliance continues to do the inconceivable: it keeps the backup...

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September 24, 2013

ExaGrid EX Series tops DCIG 2013 Midrange Deduplicating Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guides

ExaGrid Systems has been named a 'Best in Class' solution for disk back up by DCIG for mid-range organisations. Organisations instinctively know that their IT infrastructures are changing or have already changed. Virtualising infrastructures to form public,...

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September 5, 2013

ExaGrid Systems Named ‘Best-in-Class’ Solution for Disk Backup by DCIG for Midrange Organisations

Accredited Analyst Firm Ranks ExaGrid Systems as Top Backup Solution in $50k and $100k Buyer's Guide Reports.

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July 18, 2013

CA Technologies, ExaGrid Unify Disk Backup Hardware, Software; Chris Ross Comments

CA Technologies and ExaGrid Systems have combined their disk-based tools designed for server backup and disaster recovery across virtual and physical environments, CRN reported Wednesday. ExaGrid integrated its disk storage and data de-duplication appliance...

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July 9, 2013

CA, ExaGrid Partner on Data Backup, Recovery for Midmarket

As midmarket and small enterprises face increasing data growth and a need for higher efficiency data backup, CA Technologies and ExaGrid Systems have inked an agreement designed to jointly address these needs by providing a quicker and more efficient backup...

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June 20, 2013

ExaGrid Appoints Richard Pearce as VP of Business Development

Seasoned strategic relationship-builder to focus on growing disk backup company’s worldwide industry vendor partner program.

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June 19, 2013

Exagrid Hires Former IBM Exec, Hitachi Bod to Help Flog Disk Grid Tech

ExaGrid, a supplier of deduplicated disk grid systems, clearly isn't worried about its products, but it has added two new execs to help boost the business side of things.

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June 12, 2013

Dedupe in the Virtual/Cloud Era

Despite the momentous changes taking place in the enterprise, one thing remains constant: the need for efficient, effective backup and recovery. In that vein, then, technologies like deduplication are in continual demand. Not only do they help preserve...

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ExaGrid Named ‘Disk Based Product of the Year’ at Annual Storage Awards 2013

ExaGrid Systems has been named 'Disk Based Product of the Year: Small/Midrange' at the Annual Storage Awards 2013 ceremony on June 6th 2013 in London, reinforcing its world class technology and performance.

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June 7, 2013

ExaGrid Issued US Patent for Unique Zone-level Deduplication Technology

ExaGrid Systems received US Patent no. 8,412,848, building on the company’s history of innovation to solve data protection problems for its customers. The patent covers ExaGrid’s unique Zone-level deduplication method, a core component of ExaGrid’s...

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June 4, 2013

Combined ExaGrid De-Dupe Backup and Veeam Solution

ExaGrid announced that IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has validated the effective instant VM recovery capabilities of ExaGrid's disk-based backup with deduplication system with Veeam Software, Inc.'s virtual server data protection solution.

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May 15, 2013

Cloudy with a Chance of System Failure?

Public cloud solutions make many promises, such as reducing IT time needed to manage computing resources and eliminating the up-front expenses associated with purchasing capital equipment. The challenge is to identify the scenarios where the public cloud...

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April 29, 2013

Sizing Your Disk Backup and Deduplication System to Avoid Future Missteps

Correctly sizing a disk backup with deduplication to meet your current and future needs is an important part of your data protection strategy. If you ask the right questions upfront and analyze each aspect of your environment that impacts backup requirements,...

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March 27, 2013

Data Protection Vendors Add Options for Cloud Backups

In the early days of cloud backups, people wondered if the cloud would threaten traditional backup vendors by alleviating the need for their software and hardware. But backup vendors are embracing the cloud, giving customers more options for hybrid models that...

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March 25, 2013

2013 Partner Programs Guide: Storage Vendors

CRN has once again named ExaGrid Systems to the 2013 Partner Programs Guide.

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March 22, 2013

Affordable Dedupe and Cloud Based DR

Data deduplication has delivered tremendous efficiencies into the data center by enabling organizations to reduce the disk and tape resources required to store backup information. As important, deduplication facilitates bandwidth efficient backup replication...

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March 15, 2013

ExaGrid and ATS National Partnership for Cloud-Based DR as a Service

ExaGrid Systems and ATScloud announced a partnership to offer customers cloud-based DR as a Service. ExaGrid customers now have the option to replicate their backup data to ATScloud's secure cloud infrastructure, reducing or eliminating the need to vault...

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March 8, 2013

ExaGrid Adds Cloud Option for Disaster Recovery

A backup-hardware maker is now embracing the cloud as part of its offering for disaster recovery. Users of ExaGrid backup appliances can now choose ATScloud's Disaster Recovery service for a remote copy of their backed-up data instead of maintaining a separate...

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ExaGrid, ATScloud Offer Secure Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Gartner, Inc. predicted that by 2014, 30 percent of midsized companies (those with annual revenues or operating budgets of between $150 million and $1 billion) will have adopted cloud-based disaster recovery, which is up from just 1 percent in 2011.

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March 7, 2013

ExaGrid Adds Cloud Option for Disaster Recovery

Users of ExaGrid backup appliances can now choose ATScloud's Disaster Recovery service for a remote copy of their backed-up data instead of maintaining a separate ExaGrid device or a tape system.

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ExaGrid, ATScloud Partner On Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

Disk-based backup appliance developer ExaGrid Systems is partnering with hybrid cloud provider ATScloud to offer solution providers and their customers a new "Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service" solution.

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ExaGrid Adds Cloud Option for Disaster Recovery

ExaGrid will keep selling boxes, but it plans to introduce several cloud-based offerings this year. The service from ATScloud, which will be sold alongside backup appliances through ExaGrid's resellers, offers a disaster recovery option with no capital...

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February 18, 2013

ExaGrid and PHD Virtual Team Up

The combination of ExaGrid and PHD addresses the myriad of backup challenges faced by IT departments by offering customers faster backups, recovery capabilities, and more efficient DR via offsite disk-based replication for virtual server environments.

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February 15, 2013

Nick Ganio, VP Sales for ExaGrid, Named 2013 Channel Chief

CRN has once again named Nick Ganio, VP Sales for ExaGrid Systems, a 2013 Channel Chief. Under Ganio's guidance, the company has seen a 30+% growth in channel bookings year over year, including substantial growth in international channel sales in the EMEA...

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February 13, 2013

ExaGrid and PHD Virtual Join to Offer Improved Virtual Data Protection

ExaGrid Systems Inc., vendor of disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, and PHD Virtual Technologies, provider of virtual machine backup and recovery and virtualization monitoring solutions, announced a technology alliance that will provide...

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ExaGrid Systems EX130-GRID with Secure Erase

The ExaGrid Systems EX130-GRID with Secure Erase receives the bronze cup in the data backup hardware category in Storage magazine's/SearchStorage.com's 2012 Products of the Year competition.

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January 29, 2013

ExaGrid Posts Sales Results for 2012

ExaGrid has announced another record sales year in 2012 as the demand for grid-based, scalable disk backup systems with data deduplication continued to grow.

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January 28, 2013

Top 5 Backup Trends (Plus 5 Bonus Trends for Active Archiving)

Recent natural disasters have shown many companies firsthand that everything can be gone in a flash...And that means backup. Accordingly, here are some of the top trends in the backup arena.

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January 23, 2013

Industry Perspective: The Backup and Disaster Recovery Market 2013

Industry Perspective asks Bill Hobbib, VP of Marketing for ExaGrid Systems, about the state of backup and disaster recovery (DR) in today’s market.

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January 21, 2013

ExaGrid Honored for Data Deduplication Technology by 2 IT Publications

ExaGrid was selected by IDG's InfoWorld as one of the recipients of the 2013 Technology of the Year. Additionally, ExaGrid was named a Storage Magazine 2012 Product of the Year award finalist. The high-profile recognition further validates ExaGrid's approach,...

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January 14, 2013

Avoid the 10 Costliest Mistakes of Disk Backup

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has recently published a book offering IT professionals and CIOs straightforward and pragmatic guidance to help choose a disk backup system. Titled “Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication,” it’s the most comprehensive...

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Avoid the 10 Costliest Mistakes of Disk Backup

Drawing on experiences with more than 5,000 disk backup installations, the newly-published book Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication describes the many technical considerations when choosing a disk backup system, such as the product’s...

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Avoid the 10 Costliest Mistakes of Disk Backup

With data growth rates averaging 30% or more annually, an increasing number of organizations are moving from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Depending on the disk backup architecture chosen, a backup environment can either be improved or worsened,...

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Backup Hardware: 2012 Products of the Year Finalists

ExaGrid was one of eight finalists in the data backup hardware category in the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2012 Products of the Year competition. The category covers tape libraries, tape drives, backup storage media, disk backup targets, virtual tape...

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ExaGrid Publishes Industry’s Most Comprehensive Guide to Disk Backup with Deduplication

“Straight Talk About Disk Backup with Deduplication” is the most comprehensive guide to disk backup with deduplication available. By reading the 29-page book, IT professionals and CIOs can gain insights into the right questions to ask and which factors...

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January 10, 2013

ExaGrid Publishes Industry’s Most Comprehensive Guide to Disk Backup with Deduplication

New “Straight Talk” book offers IT leaders and CIOs guidance on avoiding the 10 costliest mistakes of disk backup.

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January 9, 2013

InfoWorld’s 2013 Technology of the Year Award Winners

Although data deduplication has become fairly common, not all backup appliances are created equal; the real trick is providing seamless scalability and offsite replication capabilities. ExaGrid's scale-out architecture guarantees that even as your data grows,...

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January 4, 2013

8 Highland Capital-Backed Companies Worth Watching in Boston

Highland has made some good moves in recent years — a number of their Boston tech investments appear to be taking off. Expect to hear more about these companies in coming years.

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January 3, 2013

ExaGrid Aces Disk-to-Disk Backup

To say that deduplication technology is "hot" is something of an understatement. With rapidly growing mountains of data, leveraging dedupe in backup (if not primary storage) has almost become a necessity.

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Review: ExaGrid Aces Disk-to-Disk Backup

While there are a number of well-known vendors with very strong product offerings in this space, ExaGrid's unique scale-out grid architecture and truly refreshing support model set it apart from the pack and place it in a class of its own.

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Backup and Recovery in 2013

ExaGrid Systems has published its top five predictions for changes in the worldwide backup and recovery market in 2013. As organizations cope with data growth and look to gain greater operational efficiency and increased value from IT investments, ExaGrid has...

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December 28, 2012

Best of Industry Perspectives 2012: Storage

Included in Data Center Knowledge's top picks of storage columns for 2012 was one authored by ExaGrid's VP of Product Development, Marc Crespi, entitled, "Dedupe’s Fork in the Road: Grid vs. Fixed Controller."

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December 24, 2012

ExaGrid Top 5 Predictions for Backup and Recovery Market in 2013

As organizations cope with data growth and look to gain greater operational efficiency and increased value from IT investments, ExaGrid has identified five trends that will continue transforming backup and recovery in the coming year.

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December 12, 2012

Southern Data Storage Collaborates with ExaGrid

Tampa-based Southern Data Storage, a firm specializing in data storage, backup and disaster recovery, announced a partnership with ExaGrid Systems Inc., a firm that focuses on scalable and cost-effective “disk-to-disk (or D2D) backup with data...

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December 5, 2012

ExaGrid Expands Zone-Level Deduplication Capabilities with Universal Backup Share

With Universal Backup Share, only ExaGrid combines generic backup application support with a GRID-based, scalable architecture that enables customers to keep adding nodes as their data grows, avoiding costly forklift upgrades.

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December 4, 2012

How to Choose Between Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out Architectures for Backup and Recovery

The architectural approach used by the appliance vendor can make a significant difference to the performance, scalability and total cost of the selected solution. Pros and cons are presented.

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How to Choose Between Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out Architectures for Backup and Recovery

More and more organizations are reducing or eliminating the use of tape by deploying disk-based appliances that use deduplication. But the architectural approach used by the appliance vendor can make a significant difference to the performance, scalability and...

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October 19, 2012

Last of the Indie Dedupe Firms: We CAN Fight Off Backup Giants

The Register was there for one of Andrews' presentations, where he quickly dismissed what he classed as knock-offs from competitors; defined weaknesses and benefits of his firm's products against that of its rivals; and looked at ExaGrid's coming attack plan.

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October 11, 2012

Another 3Q12 Record for ExaGrid

The continued growth has been driven by increasing demand for the company's next generation GRID architecture-based disk backup system, which offers scalability and significant cost advantages over competing first generation backup systems.

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October 9, 2012

ExaGrid Gunning For Market Share

For many tech companies, competitors are located across the country, or even the world. That's true for Westborough-based ExaGrid Systems Inc., but its biggest competitor has an office just two miles down the road.

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October 3, 2012

ExaGrid Announces a Record Quarter in Q3 2012

According to ExaGrid Systems, the company’s next generation GRID architecture-based disk backup system is better than the similar products offered by the competitors as it provides scalability along with reduced costs for the user.

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ExaGrid Announces Another Record Quarter in Q3 2012 Driven by Increased Demand for Highly Scalable Disk Backup

ExaGrid today announced that the company achieved a record quarter for sales and revenue in Q3 2012 and surpassed 1,500 customers. The continued growth has been driven by increasing demand for the company’s next generation GRID architecture-based disk backup...

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October 1, 2012

Survival of the Fittest

The advent of the cloud is changing the disaster recovery landscape: a hard to justify “nice-to-have” is increasingly viewed as an affordable necessity. But is this necessarily a good thing, and what impact might cloud services and other emerging...

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September 27, 2012

Dissatisfaction with the Current State of Backup

ExaGrid Systems announced the results of a survey of 1,200 IT managers which shows widespread dissatisfaction with the capabilities of many existing backup systems to keep up with requirements for faster backups with permanently short backup windows as data...

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Among IT Managers Using Tape Only, 75% in D2D Within 12 Months

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced the results of a 2012 survey of 1,200 IT managers. Nearly 40% of IT managers report that their routine nightly backups exceed the backup window, with 30% saying their companies exceed the backup window by more than four hours.

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September 25, 2012

ExaGrid Survey of IT Managers Reveals Widespread Dissatisfaction with the Current State of Backup

ExaGrid® Systems, Inc.today announced the results of a 2012 survey of 1,200 IT managers which shows widespread dissatisfaction, stemming largely from delayed investments by many organizations in modernizing backup systems in recent years, which leaves...

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ExaGrid Survey of IT Managers Reveals Widespread Dissatisfaction with the Current State of Backup

ExaGrid® Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced the results of a 2012 survey of 1,200 IT managers which shows widespread dissatisfaction with the capabilities of many...

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September 21, 2012

ExaGrid Penetrates 50 Data Domain SMBs

ExaGrid announced that 50 companies and organizations previously using EMC Data Domain have selected ExaGrid's disk backup with deduplication to either replace their Data Domain system or to handle new growth and projects where they needed more cost-effective...

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September 17, 2012

US Backup Solutions Firm ExaGrid Appoints Malaysian Distributor

US backup solutions firm ExaGrid Systems has signed a distribution agreement with Malaysian IT product distributor Digital Paper as a first step to grow market share for ExaGrid disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication.

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ExaGrid Penetrates 50 EMC Data Domain Mid-Sized and Small Enterprise Customers

ExaGrid announced that 50 companies and organizations previously using EMC Data Domain have selected ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication to either replace their Data Domain system or to handle new growth and projects. The key milestone of Data Domain...

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September 14, 2012

Tape Backup: An Ironic 60th Anniversary for Tape

May 21, 2012 was the 60th anniversary of the IBM 726. In many data centers, while other storage technologies have come and gone, this obsolete, slower performing technology is still being used for data backup and on- or off-site disaster recovery.

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ExaGrid Announces 50 EMC Data Domain Customers

Recently, ExaGrid announced that 50 clients, who earlier used EMC Data Domain, have now turned to ExaGrid's disk backup with deduplication. These clients are either changing their Data Domain system or looking to manage new growth and projects where they...

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September 12, 2012

ExaGrid Published 300 Customer Stories Among 1,400 Clients

ExaGrid has published over 300 customer success stories, which can be found on the company's website - making ExaGrid the first and only backup vendor to reach this milestone, and only IT vendor with 300 published testimonials for a single product solution.

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September 4, 2012

Unitrends Lands Prestigious Spot on the Inc. 500/5000

Inc. magazine today ranked Unitrends No. 2269 on its annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.

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September 1, 2012

Survival of the Fittest

The advent of the cloud is changing the disaster recovery landscape: a hard to justify “nice-to-have” is increasingly viewed as an affordable necessity. But is this necessarily a good thing, and what impact might cloud services and other emerging...

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August 30, 2012

ExaGrid First Company to Publish a Record 300 Disk Backup Customer Success Stories

ExaGrid Systems, Inc ., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that it has published over 300 customer success stories, which can be found on the company’s website – making ExaGrid the first...

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ExaGrid First Company to Publish a Record 300 Disk Backup Customer Success Stories

The University of Northern Iowa is the 300th customer to publicly share its selection of and success with ExaGrid's disk backup with data deduplication solution. As a state-supported university of approximately 13,000 students, and ranked among the nation's...

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ExaGrid First Company to Publish a Record 300 Disk Backup Customer Success Stories

ExaGrid Systems today announced that it has published over 300 customer success stories, which can be found on the company’s website – making ExaGrid the first and only backup vendor to reach this impressive milestone, and only IT vendor with 300 published...

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August 29, 2012

T&E Management Firm Concur Selects ExaGrid

Concur Technologies, Inc., a travel and expense management solutions provider, stores over 2.5PB of data on their ExaGrid system and is among a growing number of ExaGrid customers with large amounts of data whose backup needs outstripped the capabilities of...

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August 28, 2012

ExaGrid Customer Base Continues to Grow Thanks to GRID

Provider of disk-based backup solutions, ExaGrid Systems recently announced that it is attracting an increasing number of companies with large data sizes and demanding backup requirements. For example, Concur, a travel and expense management solutions...

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August 23, 2012

Companies with Petabytes of Data to Protect Increasingly Choosing ExaGrid for Disk-Based Backup

ExaGrid® Systems, Inc. today announced that an increasing number of companies with large data sizes and demanding backup requirements are turning to ExaGrid for faster backups and restores and seamless scalability to maintain a fixed length backup window as...

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August 8, 2012

Backup and Recovery Across Heterogeneous Environments

Backup and recovery systems have never been all that easy to deal with. Not only are they expensive to build and maintain, but they need to accommodate increasingly diverse data center infrastructure that has become both more virtual and more heterogeneous in...

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August 2, 2012

4 Reasons Romney’s Wrong About Culture and Economic Success

There is more to entrepreneurship than culture. In fact, one way to assess what factors foster entrepreneurial activity is to look at how private capital flows to different countries. And in our book, Capital Rising, Professor Srini Rangan and I found that...

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July 24, 2012

Partnership Between ExaGrid and Unitrends

Unitrends, Inc. and ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced a partnership that will enable mid-sized enterprises to address heterogeneous IT environments and the sprawl associated with data growth. The integration of Unitrends' software-only product, Unitrends...

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July 22, 2012

ExaGrid Boosting Growth to IPO Territory

It has been a long time since a Massachusetts information storage company has sold shares to the public. But the chief executive officer of a Westboro system backup company could buck that trend.

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July 18, 2012

ExaGrid, Unitrends Improve TCO, Scalability in Heterogeneous IT Environments

Unitrends and ExaGrid announced a partnership that will enable mid-sized enterprises to address heterogeneous IT environments and the sprawl associated with data growth.

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ExaGrid Announces Q2 2012 Results with Record Quarter for Disk Backup with Deduplication Sales to Mid-Market and Small Enterprise

ExaGrid today announced record bookings and revenue in Q2 2012, further strengthening its leadership position for GRID-scalable disk backup with deduplication systems in the mid-market and small enterprise.

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ExaGrid and Unitrends Team to Deliver Lowest TCO and Scalability for Backup and Recovery in Heterogeneous IT Environments

Unitrends, Inc., the #1 all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solution and ExaGrid® Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced a partnership that...

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July 16, 2012

ExaGrid’s 1,417 Customers Know Good Backup When They See It

Bill Andrews likes to keep track of how many customers his company has each quarter. And according to the CEO of Westborough, Mass.-based ExaGrid Systems, it makes appliances that boost backup efficiency, the company is on track for an IPO by 2013 or 2014.

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July 13, 2012

ExaGrid Announces Q2 2012 Results with Record Quarter for Disk Backup with Deduplication Sales to Mid-Market and Small Enterprise

ExaGrid announced record bookings and revenue in Q2 2012, further strengthening its leadership position for GRID-scalable disk backup with deduplication systems in the mid-market and small enterprise.

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July 11, 2012

ExaGrid Announces Q2 2012 Results with Record Quarter for Disk Backup with Deduplication Sales to Mid-Market and Small Enterprise

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced record bookings and revenue in Q2 2012, further strengthening its leadership position for GRID-scalable disk backup with deduplication systems in the mid-market and small enterprise.

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July 10, 2012

Boom or Bust? 11 Big Bets on the Future of Boston Tech

Just past the midway point of 2012, let’s take stock of the Boston-area technology scene. Not just because we care about what’s happening in the local community (which we do), but because what’s happening in the local community could have a big impact on...

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July 8, 2012

ExaGrid and Veeam Partner to Help Customers with VM Recovery

The ExaGrid and Veeam partnership offers a disk-based backup solution maximizing data reduction, accelerating recovery times and offering scalability to handle data growth without costly forklift upgrades.

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July 6, 2012

Data Domain Continues to Dominate Disk Backup

Info-Tech Research Group, Inc. published a report entitled Vendor Landscape: Disk Backup. Aim your efforts at the best target to meet your backup needs. EMC (Data Domain) continues to dominate, but selection is becoming more difficult as the market matures....

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July 5, 2012

Customers Improving VM Recovery with ExaGrid and Veeam Joint Solution

IT departments are challenged with data growth, longer retention periods, and the need to recover quickly when systems fail. This coupled with a proliferation in virtualized servers means there is a greater need for IT departments to have better backup and...

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Customers Improving VM Recovery with ExaGrid and Veeam Joint Solution

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced that an increasing number of companies are leveraging ExaGrid’s disk-based backup with deduplication systems and Veeam Software’s virtual server data protection solutions to enable faster backups, instant virtual machine...

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June 22, 2012

RFI Communications & Security Systems Selects ExaGrid for Backup and Dedupe Rather than Data Domain

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced that RFI Communications & Security Systems (RFI), a security multi-system integrator, selected ExaGrid to provide scalable multi-site backup and deduplication across the company's four West Coast regional offices.

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June 15, 2012

RFI Communications & Security Systems Selects ExaGrid for Data Backup and Deduplication

Prior to ExaGrid, RFI backed up its data using a Data Domain system, which had reached its processing and storage capacity. In a fixed controller architecture, such as EMC Data Domain, the system scales by adding only disk shelves to the front-end controller....

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RFI Communications & Security Systems Selects ExaGrid for Data Backup and Deduplication

With new security monitoring data accumulating 24 hours a day, RFI needed a solution that increased its data retention. In addition, the company wanted the ability to add a second system offsite for data replication. After a thorough review, RFI selected...

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June 4, 2012

Bye-Bye, Tapes: How to Get the Right Disk Backup Appliance

Although disk-to-disk backup methodologies have become incredibly popular over the past few years, the vast majority of enterprises -- large and small -- still use the same tape backups they implemented years ago. As time goes on, however, more and more...

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