A backup solution that is cheap and reliable
January 30, 2018
A backup solution that is cheap and reliable
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Exagrid EX Series
Exagrid EX series is currently being used by our IT department to address the issue of storing backups. We use it to store backups that are a month or older before they are eventually moved to AWS. Exagrid helps us use virtual backups and by using a combination of Veeam,Exagrid, and Glacier, we have completely eliminated tapes and reduced overall coats and in the process increased efficiency which was generally a problem with the traditional tape backup.
- Dedupes and compresses data extremely well. We have a total of 100 TB that seems like a PB for our use case.
- Provides a cifs share platform if that is one of your needs.
- We deployed a physical appliance un our DC that provides us 100TB of storage. It is easily scalable and easy to use.
- Technical support helps you with the upgrade process in case of new release and they are very knowledgeable.
- GUI is easy to use and the product requires no learning curve.
- Helped us eliminate traditional tape backups which were not reliable and took longer for the backup and recovery process.
- Very quick and easy recovery in case of a DR scenario compared to other backup solutions.
- Cost-effective.
- Having a virtual/physical appliance is a downside especially for small/mid-scale organizations who want to migrate to the cloud.
- Pays for itself over time as it is very reliable and elimates the need of tape.
We used Symantec tape making the decision to move to Exagrid.