ExaGrid Detailed Product Description

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This unique approach provides the following benefits:

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No Expansion of Backup Windows as Data Grows – By adding full appliances, ExaGrid maintains

consistently fast backup performance and a fixed length backup window as data increases.

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Seamless Scalability with No Forklift Upgrades – ExaGrid’s scale-out approach avoids

forklift upgrades by adding modular capacity with full servers to the existing system in full

backup increments of 6, 10, 18, 27, 36, 52, or 84TB with up to 32 appliances in a single system

that scales to 2.69PB full backup.

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No Obsolescence of Previous Model Systems – All ExaGrid appliances can be seamlessly

added to any existing ExaGrid deployment and can be mixed and matched with older

appliances of any size, thereby eliminating obsolescence. Adding a new ExaGrid appliance

is as simple as plugging it in and pointing backup jobs at the appropriate target. If any

model is no longer offered, the models still work in a scale-out system with older and newer

models, maintenance and support is always offered and maintenance and support will not

go up more than 3% per year allowing organizations to get their full lifetime use out of all

appliances in the system.

ExaGrid appliances include scalable computing software, which allows them to virtualize and share data

storage capacity with one another (automatic load balancing across all repositories). This scalable system

(shown above) can expand as data grows by adding appliances, providing up to 6.14PB raw capacity, 5.37PB

usable capacity, and allowing full backups of up to 2.69PB in a single scale-out system. Multiple systems can

be used at a single location, and up to 16 separate locations can be managed through a single user interface.