ExaGrid Detailed Product Description

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Reliability and Redundancy

Organizations using a disk-based backup appliance to hold their invaluable backup data should carefully

consider how the appliance is architected for reliability and redundancy. Compromises in a product’s

architecture or implementation may reduce product cost, but those savings are quickly negated by the risk

and real cost to an organization of a loss of some or all backup data.

ExaGrid’s architecture and implementation have multiple facets of reliability and redundancy, allowing

organizations that are considering disk-based backup appliances to make informed vendor selections.

ExaGrid offers the following ease of use, redundancy and security features, some of which are

explained below:

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Single user interface for all appliances in a system and across sites

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RAID6 protection with a hot swappable spare

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Redundant hot swappable power supplies

y

Active Directory for management interface and backup target security

y

SNMP and syslogging interface for integration with enterprise management apps

y

Role-based access control

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Retention Time-Lock – ransomware recovery

y

Two-factor authentication

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Data encrypted at rest

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Data encryption while replicating over the WAN

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Security checklist makes it easy to apply best practices

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Data is checksummed to ensure data integrity

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Internal self-describing database