The fourth quarter ended with a record number of new customers and six-figure new customer transaction volume, and won seven awards at the same time
Marlborough, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid ®, the industry’s only tiered backup storage solution provider, today announced that its contract value for the quarter ended December 31, 2020 set a record, and in the quarter More than 130 new customers were added, including a record 41 new customers whose initial purchases exceeded six figures.
Bill Andrews, CEO and President of ExaGrid, said: “Customers have found that primary storage disks are too expensive for backup due to long-term retention, and in-line deduplication devices such as Dell EMC Data Domain, HPE StoreOnce, and Veritas storage devices are not Backup and restore are too slow and cannot be scaled. Due to the performance impact of long-term retention or in-line horizontal expansion of deduplication devices, customers have to face the high overall cost of low-cost disks, and then they realize that they need a Different solutions, that is, solutions that provide dual advantages: disk performance and storage efficiency. Data deduplication. ExaGrid is the only hierarchical backup storage in the industry, providing fast backup and fast restore functions. Its unique horizontal expansion architecture can follow data To provide a fixed-length backup window for increased volume, and avoid forklift upgrades and product obsolescence, all of which can be achieved at a lower cost in the early and long-term. As we all know, ExaGrid is the next generation of backup storage."
Highlights of the fourth quarter of 2020 :
- Won seven industry awards in three publications this quarter
- Record large orders
- Added more than 130 new customers
- More than 40 new customers whose initial purchase orders reached six figures
- Record sales in America, Latin America and Europe, Middle East and Africa, strong sales in Asia Pacific
- Launched the retention time lock function (software version 6) for ransomware recovery, equipped with the only non-network-oriented solution with delayed deletion and immutable objects
Andrews said: "We are replacing Commvault and Veeam low-cost primary storage disks backed by Dell, HPE and NTAP because ExaGrid is much cheaper due to long-term retention. We will continue to replace Dell EMC Data Domain, HPE StoreOnce and Veritas. In-line vertical expansion of deduplication equipment. ExaGrid supports more than 25 backup applications and utilities, provides the industry’s fastest and most cost-effective backup storage, and is currently the only one that can truly pass non-network-oriented tiers, delayed deletion functions, and Immutable objects provide a backup storage solution for ransomware recovery."
For backup and restore, backup to low-cost disks can be done quickly, but if longer retention is required, the number of disks required will cause the cost to become very expensive. In order to reduce the number of disks used for long-term retention, deduplication devices reduce storage capacity and reduce costs, but deduplication is performed in-line deduplication during the backup to disk process, which slows down the backup speed to disk backup And the data is only stored in a deduplicated format, resulting in extremely slow restoration and virtual machine (VM) startup speeds, because the data must be recombined or rehydrated for each request. In addition, data deduplication equipment uses vertical expansion storage, only increasing storage capacity when the amount of data grows, resulting in a continuous increase in the backup window as the amount of data grows, as well as expensive forklift upgrades and forced product obsolescence.
The difference of ExaGrid is that it provides a front-end disk cache landing zone (Landing Zone) for tiered backup storage, which is the "Performance Tier", which can write data directly to disk to achieve extremely fast backups. Restore directly from the disk to achieve extremely fast restoration and VM startup. The long-term retained data is layered and classified into the data storage library that undergoes deduplication operations, that is, the "retention tier" (Retention Tier) to reduce the amount of retained storage and reduce costs. This two-tier method provides extremely fast backup and restore performance, while having lower cost storage efficiency.
In addition, ExaGrid provides a horizontally scalable architecture that can easily add devices as the amount of data grows. Each device contains a processor, memory, and network ports, so as the amount of data grows, all required resources can be used to maintain a fixed-length backup window. This scale-out storage method eliminates expensive forklift upgrades, and helps to mix devices of different sizes and models in the same scale-out system, thereby avoiding product obsolescence and protecting IT investment in the early and long-term.
ExaGrid's unique two-tier system has a non-network-oriented hierarchy, as well as delayed deletion functions and immutable objects to protect backup data, including long-term retention. Therefore, when all other solutions that use network-oriented backup storage are deleted, The delayed deletion feature in the second level of ExaGrid allows organizations to still recover their primary storage after being attacked by ransomware.
About ExaGrid
ExaGrid provides tiered backup storage through a unique disk cache parking area, long-term retention storage library and horizontal expansion architecture. ExaGrid's parking area provides the fastest backup, restore and instant virtual machine recovery. The retention repository has extremely low long-term retention costs. ExaGrid's scale-out architecture integrates all equipment to ensure a fixed-length backup window as data increases, avoiding expensive forklift upgrades and product obsolescence. ExaGrid provides the only two-tier backup storage solution with non-network-oriented layers, delayed deletion capabilities, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks. Please visit our website exagrid.com or contact us on LinkedIn . Please browse through our customer success stories and find out what our customers say about their ExaGrid experience, and why they are now able to significantly reduce backup time-consuming.
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