ExaGrid Detailed Product Description

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Offsite Data Protection for Disaster Recovery

ExaGrid appliances can easily maintain offsite backups through the use of an offsite ExaGrid appliance in

conjunction with a primary site ExaGrid appliance.

Backing up your data to an ExaGrid appliance at your primary site dramatically reduces the amount of disk

space required to store all of that data due to its high-performance data deduplication capability. In a multi-

site ExaGrid environment, the onsite ExaGrid system is only sending deduplicated data—the backup data

bytes that change between each backup—over the wide area network (WAN) to the offsite ExaGrid appliance.

The offsite ExaGrid appliance is ready for data restore and fast recovery in the event of a disaster or other

primary site outage.

If the replication is one way only, the second site / offsite ExaGrid can be half the capacity of the primary site

ExaGrid greatly reducing overall cost.

Replication between ExaGrid systems across a WAN can be scheduled for the day of the week and multiple times

throughout each day. Each scheduled period allows for bandwidth throttling which limits replication to only

use the assigned bandwidth. The combination of scheduling flexibility and bandwidth throttling allows for the

maximum efficiency of WAN bandwidth used for replication. Replicated data can be encrypted over the WAN

using a customer’s VPN or by utilizing the ExaGrid built-in replication encryption.

ExaGrid supports various DR options:

Private Cloud

y

Replicating to an ExaGrid at a customer’s second data center (DR site)

y

Replicating to an ExaGrid at a third-party hosted data center (DR site)

Hybrid Cloud

y

Replicating to an ExaGrid owned and operated by an ExaGrid third-party DR provider or

ExaGrid reseller and billed by the GB per month using OPEX budget

Public Cloud

y

Replicating to an ExaGrid VM in a public cloud (e.g., AWS), where DR data is stored in the

public cloud and billed by the GB per month using OPEX budget

Infrastructure to a Backup App

to ExaGrid appliances

Private Cloud

Private Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Public Cloud

Data Center