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About ExaGrid
ExaGrid
• Largest independent vendor in the space
• Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary
100% Focused on Disk-based Backup
• Highly differentiated architecture
• Winner of the most industry awards
Large Customer Base
• 10,000+ systems installed — worldwide
• 300+ published customer success stories
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Recent Awards
DCIG Buyer’s Guide 2016-17 rates ExaGrid
#1 “Recommended Deduplicating Backup Appliance”
Storage Magazine awards Gold to ExaGrid
“Product of the Year, Backup Hardware – 2015”
ExaGrid Voted SVC’s
“Product of the Year, BURA – 2016”
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Selected ExaGrid Global Customers
Business ServicesManufacturing
Transportation / Retail Healthcare
Banking
Insurance / Law
Business
Services Government
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Customer Case Study:
Global Banking & Finance Company
• Critical Banking Application
• Hundreds of VMs
• Uptime is key
• 350,000+ Customers
• Fast data growth
• Mandatory DR testing
• Need retention points to roll back
• Delete VMs
• Corrupt VMs
• Regulatory reasons
• Legal discovery
• Other technical and business reasons
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Data Growth Over Time
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30% Data GrowthTB
Data doubles
in 2.5 years
Data
quadruples
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Fixing the Economics of Backup
Sell at a low price and then raise
the price on future purchases
ExaGrid fixes the price for all
future purchases – price protectionPrice Protection
Traditional Vendors
Sell one year support and then hike the
price in year two and beyond
ExaGrid limits the increase to
3% per year foreverMaintenance $
Maintenance is a % of list price
regardless of hardware cost
ExaGrid’s maintenance is a % of the
hardware price you payMaintenance %
Front-end controller architecture
requires replacement to grow
ExaGrid appliances have all resources,
add to GRID and growForklift Upgrades
Need to plan out data growth to try and
buy the right front end controller
ExaGrid allows for appliances to be
added to a scale-out GRIDGuesswork
Products constantly discontinued and
high maintenance costs charged
ExaGrid supports all models forever…
mix and match any applianceObsolescence
Pay for installation, full versions,
replication, HW replace
ExaGrid includes installation, full
versions, replication, HW replaceHidden Costs
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Fastest Backups and Shortest Backup Window
Unique landing zone
• Write backups directly to disk
• Avoid compute-intensive deduplication
• Adaptive deduplication
Benefits
• No inline processes to slow backups
• Fastest backups
• Shortest possible backup window
• Strong offsite RPO
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Fast Restores, VM Boots in Seconds to Minutes
Unique landing zone
• Most recent backups are in
undeduplicated form
• Eliminates data rehydration
Benefits
• Restores as fast as disk
• Tape copies as fast as disk
• VM boots in seconds to minutes
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Ingest Performance Needs to Grow w/ Data Growth
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TB/hr.
Inline
Scale-up
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DR Scenarios
• ExaGrid DR appliances in a customer’s
2nd data center
• Adaptive deduplication deduplicates and replicates in parallel
• 50:1 WAN bandwidth efficiency
• Bandwidth throttle and WAN encryption for data replication
• Configure the disaster recovery site to all repository to save cost
• ExaGrid DR appliances in a 3rd party
hosting/colo facility
• ExaGrid DR appliances in a 3rd party
cloud provider
• Pay by the GB/mo. – OPEX expense
Data Center
Infrastructure to a Backup App
to ExaGrid appliances
Private Cloud
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Public Cloud• For example, AWS
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Zerto Virtual Backup Architecture with ExaGrid
Offsite Tier One VMs are:
• stored on the ExaGrid
system for long-term
retention
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Zerto Virtual Backup Architecture with ExaGrid
Offsite Tier One VMs are:
• stored on the ExaGrid
system for long-term
retention
• replicated back to the
primary site ExaGrid system
for a second backup copy
Nightly backup data is:
• backed up at the primary site
to the ExaGrid system and
replicated offsite for DR
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Stress-free Redundancy and Security
Redundant Hardware
• RAID6 guards against simultaneous disk drive failures
• Redundant power supplies
• NIC teaming
Security
• Optional data encryption at rest
• FIPS 140-2 compliant / 256-bit AES
• Occurs at the drive level in nanoseconds
• Does not impact backup performance
• WAN encryption for secure data transfer
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Personal Touch - Maintenance and Support
Phone and Email Support
• Assigned level 2 customer support engineer
• Support staff are subject matter experts in backup applications
Customer Installable and Serviceable
• Self-installable with phone support and WebEx
• Self-serviceable hardware replacements, next business day delivery
All Releases Provided
• Point and full releases – includes all new features
• No license fees to track or renew
Health Status Monitoring
• ExaGrid monitors and notifies
No additional charge – All included in support program