ExaGrid Wins Big at the 2020 SDC Awards

ExaGrid Voted “Storage Company of the Year” in addition to “Storage Hardware Innovation of the Year” and “Vendor Channel Program of the Year”

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExaGrid^®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced that the company was honored with three industry awards at the annual SDC Awards, which held a virtual awards show on December 3, 2020.

ExaGrid’s wins at the SDC Awards are in categories that reflect different areas of strength that the Tiered Backup Storage company has become known for. ExaGrid’s Reseller Program was voted “Vendor Channel Program of the Year,” and it won the “Storage Hardware Innovation of the Year” award for its Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery feature released this year in ExaGrid Software Version 6.0. ExaGrid was further recognized by voters with the “Storage Company of the Year” award.

“We are so honored to win three SDC Awards,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “In particular, we are very pleased that our reseller program received the Vendor Program Channel of the Year award, and thank our partners in the channel for their support. We are very proud of our Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery feature that was launched earlier this year with our Software Version 6.0 release, so we are extremely grateful that it has been recognized with the Storage Hardware Innovation of the Year award. The crowning achievement is winning the Storage Company of the Year award, which is a huge honor, especially considering the other finalists in the category, who are all leaders in our industry. Thank you to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all of the winners of this year’s awards.”

ExaGrid’s disk-cache Landing Zone for backup and restore performance is tiered to a long-term retention repository for cost efficiencies as well as a scale-out storage architecture that scales as data grows. ExaGrid offers the best of both worlds by pairing the fastest backup and restore performance with the lowest cost long-term retention storage.

ExaGrid has continues to gain recognition for its Tiered Backup Storage appliances, earning the following awards in the fall of 2020:

• Network Computing Awards - Company of the Year
• Network Computing Awards- Hardware Product of the Year
• Storage Awards “The Storries XVII” - Enterprise Backup Hardware Vendor of the Year
• Storage Awards “The Storries XVII” - Storage Performance Optimisation Company of the Year
• SDC Awards – Storage Company of the Year
• SDC Awards – Storage Hardware Innovation of the Year
• SDC Awards – Vendor Channel Program of the Year

About ExaGrid

ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The retention repository offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and product obsolescence. Visit us at exagrid.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. See what our customers have to say about their own ExaGrid experiences and why they now spend significantly less time on backup in our customer success stories.

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