ExaGrid Systems Tops Disk Backup Vendor Landscape According to Info-Tech Research Group

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Key Conclusions of the Report:

• "ExaGrid continues to increase in popularity."
• Only product with exemplary strength in usability, affordability and architecture.
• Earns a 99 out of possible 100 for value, offering more 'bang for the buck', average vendor score is 52.

Exponential data growth and exploding backup windows are raising the stakes on backup solution selection. Based on a superior architecture and value, ExaGrid Systems, Inc. tops the market in Info-Tech Research Group's comprehensive assessment, Vendor Landscape: Disk Backup, an independent and unbiased review of solutions and vendors.

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The report states: "These aren't just a bunch of disks; look closely at differentiating features. ExaGrid has an innovative architecture that solves many of the scalability and recoverability issues that many organizations are facing right now. Any organization that can consider backup to disk over Ethernet should have a look at ExaGrid."

By focusing on what matters to IT departments -- reliability, ease of use, scalability and support -- and solving the backup problem rather than providing a temporary fix, ExaGrid is ranked as a 'Champion' vendor in the report. Once again, ExaGrid has received this distinction, moving steadily up the 'leading product' category, and outperforming all its competition.

"When our solution is put to the test and evaluated, IT teams choose us 70 percent of the time. That's because we provide a real and enduring answer to their problems," said Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid. "Data will continue to grow at untenable rates, and backup windows will continue to shrink. Bottom line, we have the only product on the market that won't eventually require a massive forklift upgrade." 

Earning 99 points out of a possible 100 on Info-Tech's Value Index, ExaGrid is praised for its scale-out architecture, which enables simultaneous scaling of both performance and capacity and eliminates the need for any upgrades.

According to the Info-Tech analysts, ExaGrid's back up speeds, due to its patented zone deduplication process, allows backups to write at disk speed, with no slowdowns -- a significant advantage when compared to other backup applications. In addition ExaGrid is the only solution that maintains most recent backups in a landing zone to allow for the fastest restores.

For the full report, visit ExaGrid.com.

About Info-Tech Research Group
With a paid membership of over 8,000 organizations worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group (www.infotech.com) is the global leader in providing tactical, practical Information Technology research and analysis. Info-Tech Research Group has a thirteen-year history of delivering quality research and is one of North America's fastest growing full-service IT analyst firms.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.: 
More than 1,700 customers worldwide depend on ExaGrid Systems to solve their backup problems, effectively and permanently. ExaGrid's disk based, scale-out GRID architecture constantly adjusts to incessant growing data backup demands, and is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows and eliminate expensive forklift upgrades. Read through more than 300 published customer success stories and learn more at www.exagrid.com.  

ExaGrid is a registered trademark of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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