ExaGrid to increase customer base in southern Africa with SYSDBA

20 August 2012 - ExaGrid Systems (www.exagrid.com), the leader in cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced plans to grow its customer base in South Africa by signing a reseller agreement with one of the leading IT product resellers in South Africa, SYSDBA (www.sysdba.com).

"The southern African market has great growth potential for ExaGrid and we are very pleased we found the right partner," said Andy Palmer, Sales Director International at ExaGrid. "At ExaGrid, we look for resellers that share our vision to make backup better by offering customers the fastest, most scalable disk backup with deduplication solution. With ExaGrid, IT users permanently shorten their backup window, instantly recover files and VMs, and protect their IT budgets by avoiding costly forklift upgrades as data grows."

Chris Bamber, CEO of SYSDBA, commented: "SYSDBA is a leading provider of visionary IT solutions and services in southern Africa. We are always looking out for leading edge vendors and ExaGrid fits the bill perfectly. While we have a host of world-class vendors, ExaGrid is the only vendor that can offer the customers in southern Africa a disk backup solution that permanently shortens and protects the backup window as data grows at a price comparable to tape."

Benefits of deploying ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication

ExaGrid backup systems are designed to meet the needs of companies backing up between 1TB and 130TB of data in a single system. ExaGrid's unique performance-based GRID architecture is the only disk backup approach with deduplication that scales with full servers, adding both compute power and capacity, resulting in the shortest backup window that does not expand as data grows, all while eliminating forklift upgrades and product obsolescence.

Only ExaGrid permanently shortens backup windows, instantly recovers files and VMs, and permanently protects the IT budget. ExaGrid's unique approach to disk-based backup delivers all the performance, reliability and security benefits of backing up to disk, at a cost that rivals the price of tape.

ExaGrid customers achieve the fastest backup times because data is written directly to disk; data deduplication is performed post-process after the data is stored; and most importantly, ExaGrid adds full servers, which include processor, memory, disk and bandwidth versus just adding disk. This unique approach ensures the backup window does not re-explode as it would with other approaches. In addition, ExaGrid's GRID scalability enables organisations to store up to a 130TB full backup plus retention. Performance scales with data growth since processing power, memory and bandwidth are added along with storage capacity, and data loads are automatically balanced across all servers.