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posted on 21 July 2008 15:25

Westborough, MA - July 21, 2008 - ExaGrid® Systems, Inc. (http://www.exagrid.com), the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data de-duplication, today announced that it has enhanced its Disk-based Backup System by adding the ability to cross-protect up to 9 major data center locations (multi-site backup capabilities), advanced backup-job-aware reporting and expanded backup capacities.

These product enhancements allow customers to significantly improve the way they manage their backups by allowing major data centers in multiple locations to backup to disk with de-duplication and then cross-protect one another, and by providing unprecedented visibility into the true status of backup data throughout its lifecycle within the system.

The latest version of the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup System includes the following important enhancements and customer benefits:

Multi-site Data Center Cross Protection:

· ExaGrid supports two-site or multi-site cross protection for up to 9 data center locations.

· Because ExaGrid only moves the byte-level changes from the local site to offsite systems, only about 1/50th of the data has to traverse the WAN.

· Eliminates or supplements offsite tape with live disk-based repositories for long-term offsite retention or disaster recovery.

· Simplified multi-site management -- a user with appropriate privileges can manage the entire multi-site environment via a single web-based user interface, versus products that require each site or device to be managed separately.

Backup-Job-Aware Reporting:

· Advanced reporting correlates backup jobs stored on the ExaGrid with the backup application providing unprecedented visibility into the true status of the backup data.

· ExaGrid's Disk-based Backup System is the only product that shows de-duplication ratio by backup job, allowing organizations to optimize the results of byte-level data de-duplication.

· The ExaGrid system is the only product that shows replication status by backup job, ensuring that any remote site restores are executed from complete backup jobs, and that the most recent data possible is being used versus resorting to a guessing game during a critical recovery scenario.

High Capacity, Scalable Virtualized GRID Architecture:

· Store a 30TB full backup, plus weeks or months backup history/retention, in a single GRID system with a single management console (6 x 5TB ExaGrid servers = 30TB Virtualized GRID system).

· Plug-and-play growth -- new systems virtualize together automatically -- no splitting data or losing de-duplication efficiency across separate systems.

· Performance scales with data growth since processing power, memory and bandwidth are added along with storage capacity.

· Automatic data load balancing across all servers in the GRID.

· Multiple 30TB GRID systems can be installed for increased capacity.

Best Performance for Shortest Backup Window and Fastest Data Restoration:

· Fastest backup performance due to post-process de-duplication. Write directly to disk without any on-the-fly processing to slow down backups. (ExaGrid Backup throughput: up to 4.08TB/hour.)

· By keeping the most recent backup in its whole form and storing all previous versions as the byte-level changes (de-duplication), ExaGrid is the only vendor that offers rapid restore of backup jobs and fast tape copy for offsite tapes -- unlike other solutions which require re-assembly of every backup job from millions, or even billions of small blocks tracked in large hash tables. (ExaGrid Restore throughput: up to 2.6TB/hour.)

Taneja Group Technology Validation Report:

Download the complete Taneja Group report about the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup System via: http://www.exagrid.com/why_exagrid/industry_analyst_perspectives.asp.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}