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TechTarget Backup School Truth in IT 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 Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 3 Backup Requirements Support for leading backup apps, dumps & utilities Easy to use and manage 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 Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 4 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 Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 5 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 Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 6 Works with Leading Backup Apps and Utilities Oracle Dump RMAN Dump

TechTarget Backup School Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 7 Works in Your Existing Backup Environment

TechTarget Backup School Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 8 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 Adaptive Deduplication

TechTarget Backup School Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 9 Fastest Restores and Recoveries

TechTarget Backup School Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 10 Fixed Length Backup Window

TechTarget Backup School Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 11 DCIG 2014 Buyer’s Guide: Rankings Under $100K

TechTarget Backup School Truth in IT Backup School exagrid.com | 12 ExaGrid / Stress-Free Backup Storage Thank You! exagrid.com