TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 1 Backup School ExaGrid Stress-free Backup Storage Veeam Training

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 2 About ExaGrid Established in 2002 Largest independent vendor in the space 100% focused on disk-based backup Highly differentiated architecture Winner of the most industry awards Large customer base Over 10,000 systems installed — worldwide Over 350 published customer success stories More than all other vendors combined exagrid.com | 2

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 3 IT Data Center Backup Requirements Support for leading backup apps, dumps & utilities Fastest backups for the shortest backup window Fastest local restores Instant recoveries – just boot a VM Fastest offsite tape copies Fixed length backup window as data grows Best RPO and RTO from a site disaster Lowest cost up front and over time

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 4 Straight Disk vs. a Deduplication Appliance Straight Disk Veeam features leverage straight disk Veeam deduplication is 2X As retention grows, disk grows At four-week retention, target appliances with greater deduplication cost less Example 10TB of data 8 weeks of retention $400 per TB for straight disk Cost of straight disk = $30,800 Cost of ExaGrid = $22,000

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 5 Disk Backup with Deduplication Architectural Approaches Inline deduplication with scale-up Target-side appliances Deduplication in the backup software to straight disk Landing zone with scale-out

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 6 Challenges of Traditional Inline Deduplication Slows backup down due to compute-intensive inline process Data is 100% deduplicated on disk which slows down all requests due to data rehydration time Backup window grows as data grows since only disk capacity is added Backup software has the same 3 challenges as above plus a lower deduplication rate, resulting in: More storage More bandwidth

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 7 ExaGrid – A Better Way! Unique Architecture Front-end landing zone Most recent backups in full form ready to restore Adaptive deduplication Occurs in parallel Global deduplication Deduplicates across all NAS shares and all appliances in a GRID Scale-out Full appliances in a GRID ExaGrid Solves the Problems Fastest backups Fastest: restores, instant recoveries & tape copies Fixed length backup window as data grows Eliminates obsolescence and forklift upgrades

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 8 Works with Leading Backup Apps and Utilities Oracle Dump RMAN Dump

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 9 ExaGrid – Simple and Flexible

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 10 Fastest Backups and Shortest Backup Window Shortest Backup Window Unique landing zone architecture Back up directly to disk No inline processes to slow backups Shortest possible backup window Deduplicate & replicate in parallel for an up-to-date disaster recovery point Most recent copy is undeduplicated for fast restores and recoveries

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 11 Fastest Restores and Recoveries

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 12 Backup 5 10TB 5TB 10TB 5TB 10TB 5TB 10TB 5TB Advanced Architecture for Instant Recovery Backup 1 Landing Zone Repository 2:1 Compression High speed landing zone. Most recent backup in complete form for Instant VM Recovery Backup 2 Byte-level deltas of compressed zones Backup 3Backup 4 200GB 90TB backed up to 6.6TB repository space Backup 1 Backup 2 Backup 3 Backup 4 Backup 5 6.6TB Backup 6 Backup 7 Backup 8 Backup 9 200GB Backup 9 10TB Intact VMs for InstantRestore TM Instant Restore Fast Backup Fast Restore

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 13 ExaGrid-Veeam Accelerated Data Mover Veeam to Veeam Communications – Faster Than CIFS With the Landing Zone, Further Improves Performance for: Restores Instant VM recoveries – boot a VM in seconds to minutes Tape copy Sure Backup integrity check Virtual Lab Veeam backup copy and replication Synthetic Full Backups on the ExaGrid Eliminates Veeam backup server overhead and network traffic Improved Copy and Replication Updates Veeam with Offsite Data ExaGrid Repository ExaGrid deduplication is in addition to Veeam deduplication Allows for longer-term retention

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 14 Support of Oracle RMAN Channels Multi-hundred terabyte database backup to a single ExaGrid scale-out GRID Parallel RMAN channels for the fastest backups RMAN performance-directed sections for maximum performance RMAN failover if any appliance the GRID fails Most recent database in an undeduplicated form for the fastest restores Fixed length backup window with a scale-out storage architecture

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 15 Fixed Length Backup Window

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 16 Scale-Out versus Scale-Up Backup Storage Full Backup TBs TB/hr. Ingest Rate DD2500 DD4200/4500 DD7200 DD9500 ExaGrid EX32000E – up to 25 Appliances in a Scale-Out GRID

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 17 ExaGrid Appliances 25 Appliances to a Scale-Out GRID (800TB Full Backup) ExaGrid ModelRaw Capacity (TB) Usable Capacity (TB) Capacity for Weekly Fulls (TB) Capacity for 16 Weekly Fulls (TB) Max Backup Throughput (TB/hr) ExaGrid Appliance Nodes EX EX EX EX EX EX EX10000E EX13000E EX21000E EX32000E ExaGrid Appliance Nodes with Encryption EX7000-SEC EX10000E-SEC EX13000E-SEC EX21000E-SEC EX32000E-SEC

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 18 ExaGrid Appliances 25 Appliances to a Scale-Out GRID (800TB Full Backup) EX32000E 14 in a GRID Full Backup (TB) Usable Capacity (TB) Max Backup Throughput (TB/hr) Scales to 25 appliances in a scale-out GRID (800TB Full Backup / 187.5TB/hr.)

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 19 Onsite and Offsite Tape Replacement Adaptive deduplication deduplicates and replicates in parallel with backups for an up-to-date recovery point WAN efficiency of 50:1 (2% data change rate) Configure the disaster recovery site to all repository to save cost Bandwidth throttle – set times of day and Mbps limit WAN encryption for data replication

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 20 Multi-site Data Center Disk Backup Topology Multi-site Architecture 50:1 WAN efficiency across all sites Management from single UI Cross-site protection between sites Consolidated DR copies of backup reduces costs

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 21 Unified Management Console: ExaGrid UI Single interface across all systems Simple dashboard gives quick view

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 22 Daily Report System Status Landing Zone Repository

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 23 Redundancy and Security Redundant Hardware RAID6 guards against simultaneous disk drive failures Includes spare drive in every system Failed drives rebuilt automatically Redundant power supplies NIC teaming Security Optional FIPS compliant data encryption Ensures data at rest is encrypted with 256-bit AES Occurs at the drive level in nanoseconds Does not impact backup performance

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 24 World-class Maintenance and Support Phone and Support Maximum one hour response during business hours Assigned US-based support engineer Support staff are subject matter experts in backup applications Customer Installable Customer self-installable with phone support All Releases Provided Point and full releases – includes all new features No license fees to track or renew Health Status Monitoring ExaGrid Support can monitor status ExaGrid Support can notify on any unresolved issues Next Business Day Replacement of All Hardware Customer installable No additional charge – All included in support program World-class Customer Ratings ExaGrid received world-class Net Promoter TM Scores (NPS) from the Net Promoter survey for our product and customer support — comparable to Apple in consumer Net Promoter benchmarks.

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 25 Industry Recognition “Top Emerging Vendor” Cool Vendor in Data Protection “Best Value for Money” “One to Watch” ExaGrid Named 2013 “Disk Backup Champion" ExaGrid Named” Visionary” in the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Disk Backup with Deduplication

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 26 Info-Tech Disk Backup Vendor Landscape

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 27 DCIG 2014 Buyer’s Guide: Rankings Under $100K

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 28 ExaGrid / Stress-free Backup Storage Shortest Backup Window Back up straight to a landing zone Perform Adaptive Deduplication in parallel Bring landing zone and bandwidth with every appliance Fixed Length Backup Window Backup window stays at a fixed length as data grows Full appliances in a GRID – scale-out architecture Fastest Restores, Recoveries and Tape Copies Most recent backups in full undeduplicated form Fastest restores Instantly boot VMs for instant VM recovery Fastest offsite tape copy Lowest Cost for Backup Storage No product obsolescence Mix and match any size or age appliance in the GRID No forklift upgrades as the backup window is fixed length Maintenance & Support includes all options – no hidden costs

TechTarget Backup School exagrid.com | 29 Thank you! Questions? ExaGrid Veeam Software