ExaGrid EX Series Reviews

ExaGrid EX Series offers ease of use, effective data deduplication, and compression. Users appreciate its landing zone feature for fast backup and recovery, seamless integration with backup targets like Veeam, and good performance with a user-friendly interface. The air gapped and immutable storage add significant advantages. Simple setup, competitive pricing, and scalable capacity further enhance its value. Some benefit from the system’s speed, though long-term backups may experience reduced speed due to fragmentation.

• "ExaGrid EX Series and Veeam was easy to set up, and it worked seamlessly."
• "The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the process is fast, ensuring smooth backup and recovery operations at high speeds. However, the process becomes slower for long-term backups moved to the retention zone due to fragmentation. So, if the data is older than a few days, the speed may be limited, especially for non-deduplicated data in the landing zone."
• "The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."

ExaGrid EX Series could benefit from enhancing cloud integration with third-party providers like AWS. Increasing support quality and adopting flash-type drives rather than spinning drives would help. Documentation needs greater clarity, particularly on enhanced consoles. Users express a need for certification ensuring compliance with specific regulations. Fiber channel connectivity and reliable protection, particularly against ransomware, are also areas of interest. Storage demands due to longer data retention under ransomware defense strategies necessitate higher-end models.

• "The tool reduces storage footprint. However, clients are now storing data for longer durations with increasing requirements to retain backups for longer periods, particularly as a defense against ransomware attacks. As a result, the retention zone with duplicated data is experiencing more demand, leading to space constraints. This necessitates using higher-end, more expensive models to address the issue."
• "The product's documentation can be made more precise."
• "The one place where we are sometimes losing the opportunity with ExaGrid is that a few customers still require a fiber channel connectivity, which is not always possible."