ExaGrid Detailed Product Description

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Total Cost of Ownership

Backup and disaster recovery is one area of IT spending which—though critically necessary—is typically

viewed purely as cost. While backup is an extremely important area, organizations look to achieve appropriate

protection so data is not lost while, at the same time, accomplishing this at the lowest possible cost. ExaGrid

is the only vendor that has responded by creating a product that truly meets this different economic model

warranted for backup spending. Backup spending has followed the same spending pattern as other IT

infrastructure spending, which includes:

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Expensive forklift upgrades when a system is outgrown due to data growth

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Repurchasing of entire systems when an existing system simply “wears out”

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Complete rip-and-replace when a backup system becomes obsolete due to product

end of life

ExaGrid redefines the economics of backup by helping you contain costs at every point in the life cycle —

up front and as data grows over time.

ExaGrid offers the following to control costs:

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Over the phone/web installation at no charge – typically installed in a few hours

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No forklift upgrades

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No planned product obsolescence

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Scale-out architecture, pay as you grow

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For one way replication – second site / DR site system is half the price of the primary site

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Everything is included in the yearly support and maintenance – no hidden cost

- Local customer support in the Americas, EMEA and APAC – in theatre support

- Assigned level 2 tech support engineer – work with the same person all the time

- Automatic health monitoring

- Full and point versions – all new features are included

- No costs for failed hardware replacement

- Spares depots around the world for fast failed hardware replacement

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Price protection

- the price paid for appliances stays at the price for 5 years

- yearly maintenance and support will not increase more than 3% per year

Cost Effectiveness Up Front

With ExaGrid tiered backup storage, backups are written directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding

inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance resulting in the shortest backup

window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups while

providing full system resources to the backups for the for the strongest offsite recovery point (RPO). Available

system cycles are utilized to perform deduplication and offsite replication for an optimal recovery point at

the disaster recovery site. Once complete, the onsite data is protected and immediately available in its full

undeduplicated form for fast restores, VM Instant Boot and Recoveries, and tape copies while the offsite

data is ready for disaster recovery. This allows ExaGrid to be more cost effective up front than an inline/block

deduplication system.