ExaGrid Detailed Product Description

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Executive Summary

ExaGrid provides tiered backup storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention

repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores,

and instant VM recoveries. The disk-cache Landing Zone tier allows for the fastest backups and restores.

The retention repository tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture

includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive

forklift upgrades and product obsolescence.

ExaGrid’s Tiered Backup Storage makes backup better with:

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Fastest backups resulting in the shortest backup window

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Fastest restores

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Instant VM recoveries in seconds to minutes

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Fastest offsite tape copies

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A fixed length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive future forklift upgrades

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Industry-leading deduplication ratios for storing long-term retention data for low-cost

retention storage

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Deduplication efficiency across the entire system with global deduplication

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Fast, reliable, and up-to-date offsite disaster recovery using Adaptive Deduplication

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Linear scalability — scale-out architecture

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Low cost up front and over time as data grows

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No forklift upgrades or product obsolescence

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Retention Time-Lock to ensure recovery from a ransomware attack

ExaGrid Basic Concept

ExaGrid appliances work seamlessly with over 25 industry-leading backup applications and database utilities

by presenting themselves as standard NAS shares (CIFS or NFS), a Veeam Data Mover target, or Veritas

NetBackup OST target. ExaGrid appliances are easily integrated into existing backup environments, as

illustrated below.

ExaGrid sits behind the existing backup server and replaces low-cost disk,

inline deduplication appliances or tape backup storage, both onsite or offsite.