Organizations instinctively know that their IT infrastructures are changing or have already changed. Virtualizing infrastructures to form public, private or hybrid clouds that are supported by a single IT team is rapidly becoming the new norm. Yet even as this transformation in IT occurs, what organizations expect the technologies that underlay their virtualized infrastructure to deliver remains remarkably the same.
Cost-effective, easy to manage, flexible, high performing and scalable are attributes that the technologies that power the IT infrastructure of tomorrow should ideally deliver. The challenge every company faces is identifying the best products to deliver on these established requirements while still delivering the features needed to power tomorrow’s IT infrastructures.
The ExaGrid EX Series of products essentially defines what modern midrange target-based deduplicating backup appliances should deliver. Capturing seven (7) of the Top 10 places in both the DCIG 2013 Midrange Deduplicating Backup Appliance Under $50K and Under $100K Buyer’s Guides, ExaGrid essentially stands alone in this class of midrange deduplicating backup appliances by offering a wide selection of appliances with the features that organizations most desire.
Top 10 Overall Scores and Rankings
Midrange Deduplicating Backup Appliances under $100KTop 10 Overall Scores and Rankings
The ExaGrid EX Series of deduplicating backup appliances scored well across all categories that DCIG evaluated. However there were three sets of features found on all ExaGrid EX Series appliances that particularly contributed to their high scores and rankings in these Buyer’s Guides to include:
- Comprehensive backup software support
- Flexible hardware configurations
- Robust implementation of deduplication
In part 2 of this 2-part blog series, I will look at each of these three features in more depth and why they contributed to the ExaGrid EX Series scoring and ranking so well in the recently released DCIG 2013 Midrange Deduplicating Backup Appliance Under $50K and DCIG 2013 Midrange Deduplicating Backup Appliance Under $100K Buyer’s Guides.