ExaGrid giving rivals plenty of jaw-jaw

Harken to this, deduping back-up-to-disk system users: "ExaGrid’s largest system can take in a full backup that is 40 per cent larger and has an ingest rate that is six times faster than the EMC Data Domain 990, at half the price."

That's ExaGrid CEO (and virtual chief marketing officer) Bill Andrews talking, and he's got a software upgrade that's doing the business for his hardware.

ExaGrid's deduping arrays operate in a scale-out fashion with global dedupe, something Data Domain cannot – or will not – do.

V4.8 of the array software increases the number of appliances in a single scale-out GRID to 25, which increases full backup capacity by 78 per cent. It also adds bandwidth throttling and encryption during replication to safeguard data and minimise network demand.

It provides an up-to-800TB backup capability, with 25 x EX32000E appliances in a single GRID with an ingest rate of 187.5TB/hour.

Bill just loves comparisons: "ExaGrid’s unique landing zone and scale-out architecture allow for faster backups, resulting in a shorter backup window, restores and VM boot speeds that are as much as ten times faster than inline deduplication appliances, and a fixed-length backup window as data grows."

ExaGrid's V4.8 software is available at no charge to customers with valid maintenance and support agreements.

Last word, Bill? "Organisations are used to buying from large vendors such as EMC, but when it comes to back-up storage, the EMC solution is first-generation, using inline deduplication with a scale-up architecture. ExaGrid is the next generation.” ®