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ExaGrid Extends Backup Support: Page 2 of 3

ExaGrid's ability to start small may be its chief selling point. "ExaGrid's pricing structure, combined with the ability to put so much data on a smaller system, made it much more feasible than other solutions," said Michael Bailess, network administrator at American National Bank and Trust Co., in Va., in a prepared statement. He claims replacing tape backup with ExaGrid halved his backup window.

Taneja Group's O'Neill also points to ExaGrid's ability to support multisite deployments of replicated unstructured data. "Not every vendor has built in optimal fashion to support not just one, but two or three or four sites," he says. "ExaGrid has done that."

On the downside, ExaGrid hasn't a moment to lose. There is a growing movement toward de-duplication among leading vendors of NAS and SAN gear, including NetApp and EMC, which makes ExaGrid's efforts to compete even more urgent. (See EMC Talks Disk & De-Dupe and NetApp De-Dupes.)

ExaGrid claims to be growing in spite of the competition, with over 100 customers. (See ExaGrid Says Sales Up.) But with some of the largest and most successful storage players nipping at its shanks, ExaGrid is challenged as never before to make the most of its assets.

Mary Jander, Site Editor, Byte and Switch

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