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Exagrid EX Series

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What is Exagrid EX Series?

The Exagrid EX Series offers a storage solution with deduplication.

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A cost-effective and easy-to-use backup solution

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Ismael Pereira
Senior IT Analyst in Information Technology at TechnipFMC (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Reduced physical space
  • Easy configuration and handling
  • Great cost savings with backup
  • Pre-implementation support from Exagrid

Cons

  • Better integration with cloud environment
  • Faster handling interface speed

Most Important Features

  • Drastic cost reduction
  • Scalability
  • Interface easy to handle

Return on Investment

  • Faster data recovery speed
  • Reduced backup tape costs
  • Improve a backup standard for the entire company

Alternatives Considered

Supermicro SuperStorage

Other Software Used

Commvault HyperScale, Azure Backup, NetApp E-Series

Review of ExaGrid EX13000E series backup target appliance

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Shawn UmanskyView profile
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Saint Michael's College (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Its landing space allows for extremely fast data ingestion.
  • Its compression and de-duplication algorithms make it very efficient.
  • ExaGrid support is excellent; I check in with my dedicated account rep twice a year, and they make sure my hardware is up to date. They take care of all software upgrades for me.

Cons

  • I don't have much to add here. Overall, it has been a solid purchase for us.

Return on Investment

  • The exemplary support means I have been able to free up my valuable time to focus on other things.
  • I rarely have to think about the product, which means it is doing its job.

Other Software Used

Nutanix, Nutanix Prism

Exagrid EX Series

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Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • High backup speeds
  • Native Veeam integration
  • Deduplication/efficiency savings
  • Friendly management interface
  • Native replication between Exagrid boxes

Cons

  • Support (Exagrid has a 'personalized' support, what I think has some room for improvement)

Most Important Features

  • Native Veeam integration
  • 10Gbps network interface ports

Return on Investment

  • It helped us to replace the backup to tape on smaller sites
  • Being able to complete the backup jobs within the backup window

Alternatives Considered

HPE StoreOnce and Commvault HyperScale

Other Software Used

Commvault HyperScale, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, Komprise, NetApp FAS series, Nutanix AOS, VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, Veeam Backup & Replication, vCenter Operations Manager, Varonis Data Security Platform, Ricoh Managed Print Services, ManageEngine Password Manager Pro, Veritas Enterprise Vault, Oracle VM Server, Zabbix

A backup solution that is cheap and reliable

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Symantec Backup Exec

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Amazon Glacier