Today, ExaGrid,
a leading provider of disk-based backup solutions, announced the
largest, most powerful appliance in its arsenal of backup solutions with
data deduplication: the EX40000E.
The EX40000E appliance is 66% more dense than its predecessor,
providing capacity for a 40TB full backup in a 3U appliance. Leveraging
the strength of ExaGrid's scale-out GRID technology, up to 25 EX40000E
appliances can be combined in a single scale-out GRID system, allowing
for a 1PB full backup. The EX40000E has a maximum ingest rate of 8TB/hr.
per appliance, so with 25 EX40000Es in a scale-out GRID, the maximum
ingest rate is 200TB/hr., which is 3.5 times the ingest performance of
the EMC Data Domain 9500 with DD Boost.
ExaGrid's
unique landing zone stores the most recent backups in their full
undeduplicated form for restore, recovery, and VM boot performance that
is up to ten times faster than inline deduplication appliances such as
EMC Data Domain's, which only store deduplicated data. ExaGrid's landing
zone can allow a VM boot in seconds to single-digit minutes versus
hours for appliances that store only deduplicated data.
All
other solutions deduplicate data inline, which does allow for storage
savings and replicated bandwidth savings; however, these systems break
backup windows up front and especially over time as data grows. In
addition, they are painfully slow for restores, offsite tape copies, and
VM boots because the data has to be rehydrated for every restore
request.
"ExaGrid
implemented data deduplication for storage and bandwidth efficiency but
realized that doing so creates three new compute problems," said Bill Andrews,
CEO of ExaGrid. "With ExaGrid's landing zone and scale-out
architecture, all critical requirements of backup are met: storage and
bandwidth efficiency; the fastest ingest for the shortest backup window;
scale-out architecture that brings compute with capacity to keep the
backup window fixed over time as data grows; and the fastest restores,
offsite tape copies, and VM boots in seconds to minutes via the ExaGrid
landing zone. ExaGrid built a true backup storage solution versus a
deduplication appliance."
The new
EX40000E appliance, which houses 96TB of raw and 78TB of usable data,
can take in a 40TB full backup and store it as undeduplicated data in a
front-end landing zone for fast restores and recoveries, and maintains a
long-term historical version in a deduplicated data repository.
"Many of
the solutions on the market just can't keep up with a short backup
window requirement in the face of rapid data growth," said Andrews.
"Furthermore, with the advent of virtualization, organizations need
just-in-time recovery by booting VMs in seconds to minutes. Only ExaGrid
can meet all of these requirements."
The
ExaGrid scale-out approach brings compute with capacity – adding
processor, memory and network ports as well as disk – allowing the
backup window to stay fixed in length even as data grows. This approach
is unique to ExaGrid and makes it the only disk-based backup system that
maintains a fixed length backup window.
A Growing Network of Partners and Support
Understanding
and appreciating the complexity of robust backup at organizations of
all kinds, ExaGrid supports a growing number of backup applications and
utilities.
At the
enterprise level, ExaGrid works with a number of solutions, including
Veeam, Oracle RMAN, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec, EMC
NetWorker, IBM TSM, Commvault Simpana, and over 18 other backup
applications and utilities. Leveraging ExaGrid with any of these
applications gives IT departments the best of all worlds with:
- the fastest ingest performance for the shortest backup windows;
- integration with Veeam's version V9, further improving ExaGrid's
high ingest rate for even faster backup performance. Supports new
per-virtual machine (VM) backup file chain option, improved local backup
copy performance, and further simplification of Veeam/ExaGrid setup;
- the most recent backups in their native, undeduplicated form in the
landing zone for the fastest restores, offsite tape copies, and VM
boots; and
- a fixed length backup window – even as data grows – due to full
appliances in a scale-out GRID with processor, memory, and bandwidth
with disk capacity expansion.