MARLBOROUGH, MASS.-- October 07, 2022 -- ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced that it has been nominated in five categories for the 13th annual Storage, Digitalisation and Cloud (SDC) Awards, which are focused on recognizing and rewarding success in the products and services that are the foundation for digital transformation. Voting to determine the winner in each category is underway now and closes on November 4, 2022. Winners of the 2022 SDC Awards will be announced on November 24 at an awards ceremony in London.

The award categories that ExaGrid has been nominated in include:

· Vendor Channel Program of the Year
· Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Innovation
· Storage Hardware Innovation of the Year
· Backup/Archive Innovation of the Year
· Storage Company of the Year

ExaGrid offers the only Tiered Backup Storage solution that has a front-end disk-cache Landing Zone for fast backups and fast restores as well as scale-out for a fixed length backup window as data grows. In addition, the non-network facing tier guards against security attacks and stores all the data in a deduplicated format for storage efficiency to lower cost ExaGrid offers various-sized appliance models that can be mixed and matched with up to 32 appliances in a single scale-out system. The largest scale-out system can take in up to a 2.7PB full backup with an ingest rate of 488TB/hr. This is 3X faster than any other backup storage on the market.

“We are truly humbled to be a finalist in five award categories. We are not only obsessed with backup storage, but we are highly focused on building long-term partnerships with our channel partners and customers. We accomplish this by building the best product, support model, sizing, and pricing,” said Bill Andrews, ExaGrid’s President and CEO. “We are in great company with the other industry leaders who are nominated for this year’s SDC Awards. It’s encouraging to see the industry at full strength.”

ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage
ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a front-end disk-cache Landing Zone, the Performance Tier, which writes data directly to disk for the fastest backups, and restores directly from disk for the fastest restores and VM boots. The long-term retention data is tiered to a deduplicated data repository, the Retention Tier, to reduce the amount of retention storage and resulting cost. This two-tiered approach provides the fastest backup and restore performance with lowest cost storage efficiency.

In addition, ExaGrid provides a scale-out architecture where appliances are simply added as data grows. Each appliance includes processor, memory and network ports, so as data grows, all resources required are available to maintain a fixed-length backup window. This scale-out storage approach eliminates expensive forklift upgrades, and allows for mixing appliances of different sizes and models in the same scale-out system, which eliminates product obsolescence while protecting IT investments up front and over time.

About ExaGrid
ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The retention repository offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier, delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks.

ExaGrid has physical sales and pre-sales systems engineers in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Canada, Chile, CIS, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iberia, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Nordics, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and other regions.

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