ExaGrid Disk Backup with Deduplication System Named Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware “Product of the Year” by Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (http://www.exagrid.com), the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that its EX10000E Disk Backup with Deduplication System has been named the Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware “2009 Product of the Year” by Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com. Winners were determined by their ratings on six key criteria: innovation, performance, easy integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, as well as robust functionality and high value to end-users. The awards were judged by the Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of end users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants.

“Each node added to a cluster brings memory and processing power, boosting performance of data deduplication processing along with the additional capacity. In keeping with a theme of frugality in a down economy, the EX10000E consumes 50% less power than previous generations.”

“Customers are frustrated with the lack of reliability, slow performance and management headaches of tape backup,” said Bill Hobbib, vice president of marketing, ExaGrid Systems, Inc. “ExaGrid’s award-winning technology provides for the fastest and most reliable backups and restores, and as data grows ExaGrid scales without performance degradation or forklift upgrades. ExaGrid is the first vendor to deliver disk backup with data deduplication at a cost that approaches the price of tape. We’re pleased that the judging team at Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com recognized ExaGrid for breaking open the economics of disk backup by combining performance, scalability and price in a winning solution that works for customers in today’s constrained IT spending environment.”

In the feature story about the category winning ExaGrid EX10000E, the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group wrote: “The company [ExaGrid] responded to another industry-wide theme in 2009: relentless data growth, regardless of company size, coupled with flat or declining budgets. With the release of the EX10000E, consisting of up to 10 10TB server nodes for a total capacity of 100TB, new customers can store more data in less space than with previous models. But customers with previously released smaller nodes won't have to rip and replace existing clusters; the new larger node can be mixed and matched with 1TB to 5TB nodes, with overall management via a single user interface.”

The editors went on to say, “Each node added to a cluster brings memory and processing power, boosting performance of data deduplication processing along with the additional capacity. In keeping with a theme of frugality in a down economy, the EX10000E consumes 50% less power than previous generations.”

“As one of our judges put it, ‘ExaGrid remains one of the few vendors thinking about how a system grows with the customer. Kudos on taking it to the next level.’”

Customer Praise for the ExaGrid System

ExaGrid has nearly 150 real-world customer success stories detailing customers’ first-hand experiences with the ExaGrid disk backup system. This is more than all other vendors combined. The success stories are available via the ExaGrid website and include case studies from leaders like Adventist Health, Christian Broadcasting Network, Four Seasons Resort, Kingston Technology, Konica Minolta, Morningstar, Dublin City University and the Conwy & Denbighshire NHS Trust (UK National Health Service).

About ExaGrid’s Technology

ExaGrid combines last backup compression along with data deduplication, allowing changes to be stored from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies. This lets organizations store 1TB to 100TB full backups plus retention on one single scalable GRID system. This unique approach reduces the disk space required by a range of 10:1 to 50:1 or more, delivering unparalleled cost savings and performance. ExaGrid delivers extremely fast backup performance because data is written directly to disk and data deduplication is performed post-process after the backup data is safely stored.

ExaGrid’s GRID computing software makes the system highly scalable. Different sized server configurations can be mixed and matched into a virtualized GRID system with capacities of up to a 100TB full backup plus retention. Performance scales with data growth since processing power, memory, and bandwidth are added along with storage capacity, and data loads are automatically balanced across all servers.

For more information about the “2009 Products of the Year” award visit: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/productsOfTheYear/0,294801,sid5_ayr2009,00.html

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About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimized for performance, scalability and price. The combination of post-process deduplication, most recent backup cache, and GRID scalability enables IT departments to achieve the shortest backup window and the fastest, most reliable restores, tape copy, and disaster recovery without performance degradation or forklift upgrades as data grows. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 2,000 systems installed at more than 500 customers, and more than 140 published customer success stories. For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985 or visit www.exagrid.com. Also visit "ExaGrid’s Eye on De-Duplication" blog: http://blog.exagrid.com/.

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