Nominee: Exagrid

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Nominee: ExaGrid Nomination title: ExaGrid’s next-generation appliances continue market disruption with bigger/faster appliances and larger scalable GRID systems in 2015 ExaGrid’s EX32000E is its newest and largest appliance, taking in a 32TB full backup with an ingest rate of 7.5TB/hour. Single EX32000E appliance: - 7.5TB/hour ingest - 32TB full backup - 63TB usable storage - 72TB raw storage 25 EX32000Es can now be combined in a single scale-out GRID system: - 187.5TB/hour ingest - 800TB full backup - 1.5PB usable storage - 1.8PB raw storage The EX32000E provides 178% more capacity and 175% more throughput per terabyte at a lower price point per TB than its previous largest appliance – the EX21000E. A full EX32000E GRID takes in a full backup that is 40% larger at an ingest rate that is 6 times faster than its closest competitor at half the price. ExaGrid’s “Next Generation” Approach The first generation of disk-based backup products (inline deduplication with scale-up architecture) simply added deduplication to disk or to the backup application media server but weren’t architected for the complexities of backup. These solutions didn’t account for the increased deduplication compute load as data grows or the business need for fast restores. ExaGrid is the first mover in the second generation of disk-based backup solutions (landing zone with scale-out) architected to meet the demands of IT. The storage problem was solved with deduplication, but the very nature of deduplication introduced a new compute problem, making scale-out storage mandatory for backup. The market is beginning to understand the limitations of the first generation architecture – slow backup and restore performance, backup window expansion as data grows, and expensive/disruptive forklift upgrades. Traditional Inline Data Deduplication The traditional approach to deduplication – called “inline” – deduplicates backups during the backup process, slowing backups down and resulting in a longer backup window. When performing deduplication inline, all data stored is deduplicated and needs to be reassembled – or “rehydrated” – for every restore request, taking hours to days to complete. Furthermore, inline solutions employ a “scale-up” architecture with a front-end controller that only adds disk shelves as data grows, putting an ever-growing capacity burden on a static amount of processing power. This burden slows backup processing, causing the backup window to expand until the front-end controller needs to be replaced with a bigger/faster/more expensive front-end controller, called a “forklift upgrade.” Landing Zone and Adaptive Deduplication Using ExaGrid’s unique landing zone, backups land straight to disk, resulting in fast backups and a short backup window. Deduplication and offsite replication occur in parallel with backups (“adaptive deduplication”), never impeding the backup process. Recent backups are available in full undeduplicated form, readily accessible for restore requests. Therefore, local restores, instant VM recoveries, tape copies, etc. are as fast as disk, and instant VM recoveries take seconds to minutes versus hours using the traditional inline approach. Unique Scale-Out Architecture ExaGrid provides full appliances in a “scale-out” modular GRID system. As data increases, unlike other solutions that add just disk, ExaGrid adds all resources including bandwidth, processor, and memory as well as disk, resulting in a fixed-length backup window (regardless of data growth) and negating the need for expensive/disruptive forklift upgrades. With ExaGrid, you “pay as you grow” by adding appliances as data increases. ExaGrid’s ten appliance models can be mixed and matched regardless of size or age, eliminating product obsolescence. Backup Applications and Heterogeneous Environments If a customer changes backup applications, the ExaGrid system will still work, protecting the customer’s investment. ExaGrid supports many unique features and interfaces, such as improved performance for Veritas Backup Exec GRT, AIR for Veritas NetBackup, OST for Veritas Backup Exec and Veritas NetBackup, and an integrated Veeam data mover for Veeam. Many backup applications perform software-based data deduplication. ExaGrid’s deduplication leverages the backup software and provides additional deduplication to increase the overall ratios, resulting in additional savings in disk and bandwidth. ExaGrid’s Advantages ExaGrid’s solution requires the same rack space and power/cooling, and is priced the same as or lower than other solutions. ExaGrid’s unique architecture provides the fastest backups, restores, recoveries, and tape copies; maintains a fixed backup window as data grows; eliminates forklift upgrades and product obsolescence; and allows IT staff to buy what they need as they need it. ExaGrid’s system scales from a 1TB to an 800TB full backup in a single GRID. The system allows for replication to a second site for disaster recovery (DR) as well as cross-protection among multiple datacenters. All appliances and GRIDs are managed by a single user interface. Because ExaGrid supports a wide variety of backup applications, utilities, and database dumps, ExaGrid allows for multiple approaches within one environment. A customer can use one backup application for physical servers, a different backup application or utility for the virtual environment, and also direct Microsoft SQL or Oracle RMAN database dumps – all to the same ExaGrid system. Disaster Recovery – Tape, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud ExaGrid offers three DR models. ExaGrid is used onsite for backup, and • tape copies are made offsite for DR. • deduplicated data is replicated to an offsite ExaGrid for DR in a private cloud configuration. • DR. deduplicated data is replicated to the cloud as a subscription-based hybrid cloud service for Recognized Technological Innovation and Vision In the last 12 months ExaGrid has advanced its product faster than any other vendor in the space: • Introduced the EX32000E • Increased system size to 25 appliances in a single scale-out GRID (800TB full backup) • Encryption over the WAN • Bandwidth throttle over the WAN • Integrated Veeam Data Mover • Global Deduplication • Support of Oracle RMAN Channels With 2,300+ customers and 10,000 systems installed worldwide, ExaGrid is the largest independent disk-based backup with data deduplication vendor and is both cash and P&L positive. ExaGrid has the highest ranking in the “Vision” quadrant in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Deduplication Backup Target Appliances.” Visionaries deliver innovative products with capabilities that are often ahead of the mainstream market. ExaGrid received Computer Technology Review’s “Most Valuable Product 2015” award in July and Network Computing’s “Return on Investment 2015” award in March. Additionally, ExaGrid’s UK VP Graham Woods accepted the Storries XII “Service to the Industry 2015” award in June. Why nominee should win 1.) ExaGrid is the only company that implemented deduplication in a way that fixed all the challenges of backup storage. 2.) ExaGrid’s unique landing zone and scale-out architecture provides the fastest backups — resulting in the shortest fixed backup window, the fastest local restores, fastest offsite tape copies and instant VM recoveries while permanently fixing the backup window length, 3.) All this with reduced cost upfront and over time, 4.) ExaGrid takes the stress of backup storage away forever. 5.) ExaGrid believes in what we do and our channel partners and customers benefit from it every single day.