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Backup School

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About ExaGrid

ExaGrid

• Largest independent vendor in the space

• Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary

100% Focused on Disk-based Backup

• Highly differentiated architecture

• Winner of the most industry awards

Large Customer Base

• 10,000+ systems installed — worldwide

• 300+ published customer success stories

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Recent Awards

DCIG Buyer’s Guide 2016-17 rates ExaGrid

#1 “Recommended Deduplicating Backup Appliance”

Storage Magazine awards Gold to ExaGrid

“Product of the Year, Backup Hardware – 2015”

ExaGrid Voted SVC’s

“Product of the Year, BURA – 2016”

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Selected ExaGrid Global Customers

Business ServicesManufacturing

Transportation / Retail Healthcare

Banking

Insurance / Law

Business

Services Government

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Customer Case Study:

Global Banking & Finance Company

• Critical Banking Application

• Hundreds of VMs

• Uptime is key

• 350,000+ Customers

• Fast data growth

• Mandatory DR testing

• Need retention points to roll back

• Delete VMs

• Corrupt VMs

• Regulatory reasons

• Legal discovery

• Other technical and business reasons

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Data Growth Over Time

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30% Data GrowthTB

Data doubles

in 2.5 years

Data

quadruples

in 5 years

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Fixing the Economics of Backup

Sell at a low price and then raise

the price on future purchases

ExaGrid fixes the price for all

future purchases – price protectionPrice Protection

Traditional Vendors

Sell one year support and then hike the

price in year two and beyond

ExaGrid limits the increase to

3% per year foreverMaintenance $

Maintenance is a % of list price

regardless of hardware cost

ExaGrid’s maintenance is a % of the

hardware price you payMaintenance %

Front-end controller architecture

requires replacement to grow

ExaGrid appliances have all resources,

add to GRID and growForklift Upgrades

Need to plan out data growth to try and

buy the right front end controller

ExaGrid allows for appliances to be

added to a scale-out GRIDGuesswork

Products constantly discontinued and

high maintenance costs charged

ExaGrid supports all models forever…

mix and match any applianceObsolescence

Pay for installation, full versions,

replication, HW replace

ExaGrid includes installation, full

versions, replication, HW replaceHidden Costs

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5 Considerations of Data Deduplication

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Fastest Backups and Shortest Backup Window

Unique landing zone

• Write backups directly to disk

• Avoid compute-intensive deduplication

• Adaptive deduplication

Benefits

• No inline processes to slow backups

• Fastest backups

• Shortest possible backup window

• Strong offsite RPO

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Fast Restores, VM Boots in Seconds to Minutes

Unique landing zone

• Most recent backups are in

undeduplicated form

• Eliminates data rehydration

Benefits

• Restores as fast as disk

• Tape copies as fast as disk

• VM boots in seconds to minutes

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Fixed Length Backup Window

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Ingest Performance Needs to Grow w/ Data Growth

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DR Scenarios

• ExaGrid DR appliances in a customer’s

2nd data center

• Adaptive deduplication deduplicates and replicates in parallel

• 50:1 WAN bandwidth efficiency

• Bandwidth throttle and WAN encryption for data replication

• Configure the disaster recovery site to all repository to save cost

• ExaGrid DR appliances in a 3rd party

hosting/colo facility

• ExaGrid DR appliances in a 3rd party

cloud provider

• Pay by the GB/mo. – OPEX expense

Data Center

Infrastructure to a Backup App

to ExaGrid appliances

Private Cloud

Private Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Public Cloud• For example, AWS

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Works in Heterogeneous Environments

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ExaGrid – Ecosystem Partners

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Zerto Virtual Backup Architecture with ExaGrid

Offsite Tier One VMs are:

• stored on the ExaGrid

system for long-term

retention

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Zerto Virtual Backup Architecture with ExaGrid

Offsite Tier One VMs are:

• stored on the ExaGrid

system for long-term

retention

• replicated back to the

primary site ExaGrid system

for a second backup copy

Nightly backup data is:

• backed up at the primary site

to the ExaGrid system and

replicated offsite for DR

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Stress-free Redundancy and Security

Redundant Hardware

• RAID6 guards against simultaneous disk drive failures

• Redundant power supplies

• NIC teaming

Security

• Optional data encryption at rest

• FIPS 140-2 compliant / 256-bit AES

• Occurs at the drive level in nanoseconds

• Does not impact backup performance

• WAN encryption for secure data transfer

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Personal Touch - Maintenance and Support

Phone and Email Support

• Assigned level 2 customer support engineer

• Support staff are subject matter experts in backup applications

Customer Installable and Serviceable

• Self-installable with phone support and WebEx

• Self-serviceable hardware replacements, next business day delivery

All Releases Provided

• Point and full releases – includes all new features

• No license fees to track or renew

Health Status Monitoring

• ExaGrid monitors and notifies

No additional charge – All included in support program

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ExaGrid / Stress-free backup storage

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