Another 3Q12 Record for Exagrid

ExaGrid Systems, Inc.ExaGrid Systems, Inc. achieved a record quarter for sales and revenue in Q3 2012 and surpassed 1,500 customers.

The continued growth has been driven by increasing demand for the company’s next generation GRID architecture-based disk backup system, which offers scalability and significant cost advantages over competing first generation backup systems.

It solidified its position in GRID-scalable disk backup systems with deduplication for the mid-market to small enterprise.

Among the successes for ExaGrid in the fiscal quarter:

Growing Market Share Worldwide:

Grew installed base to more than 1,500 customers in North America, EMEA, and the AsiaPac region, and more than 5,000 customer installations. It’s largest installed base of GRID-scalable disk backup with deduplication appliances in the mid-market and small enterprise.
The company announced that 50 companies and organizations previously using EMC Data Domain have selected ExaGrid to either replace their Data Domain system, or to handle new growth and projects where more cost effective scalability is needed.
ExaGrid signed new customer agreements in Hong Kong, South Africa and the Middle East, to grow its global footprint.
It now has 310 Customer Success Stories and video testimonials published on its website. Among the new customer testimonials are Field Museum of Natural History, Keene State College, Health New England, University of Northern Iowa, and WeiserMazars LLP.
More than half of new customers have eliminated tape completely and are replicating their data for DR purposes to an offsite ExaGrid appliance.

Growth in Customers with petabyte-levels of data:
It continued growing its base of customers with large data sizes and demanding backup requirements that have turned for faster backups and restores, along with seamless as data grows. Among these large data sized customers announced are Concur, a travel and expense management solutions provider, which stores 2.5PB of data on its system, along with Aberdeen Asset Management PLC London, Connecticut State University System, Cox Communications, Hitachi Consulting, Massachusetts Port Authority, and Royal London Group, a mutual life and pensions company.

Global Channel Growth
It continued growing its global channel sales efforts, delivering 95% of the company’s business through channel partners, leading to growing sales in the EMEA and AsiaPac markets. In addition, ExaGrid expanded its network of VARs around the world to approximately 500.

Strengthened Industry Partnerships:
ExaGrid further expanded industry partnerships in Q3 2012:

Veeam Software: ExaGrid announced that an increasing number of companies are leveraging its disk-based backup with deduplication system and Veeam Software’s virtual server data protection solutions to achieve faster backups and instant virtual machine recovery. Among the companies using the joint ExaGrid-Veeam configuration are Hoffman Construction, American Standard, Luby’s Fuddruckers Restaurants LLC, and Poulin Grain, Inc.
Unitrends: ExaGrid and Unitrends, Inc. announced a partnership in July 2012 that will enable mid-sized enterprises to address today’s heterogeneous IT environments and the sprawl associated with data growth. The seamless integration of Unitrends’ new software-only product, Unitrends Enterprise Backup, and ExaGrid’s purpose-built disk-based backup appliance offers the industry’s best long-term and cost-effective solution to these scalability and complexity problems.

Bill Andrews, president and CEO for ExaGrid, said: "As a company, we’ve continued to be laser-focused on executing our global growth strategy, strengthening our position in the disk-based backup with deduplication market, and growing our worldwide market presence. Another record quarter validates that ExaGrid’s unique architecture delivers exactly what customers and the marketplace are looking for in disk-based backup–permanently fast backups and restores, no forklift upgrades, and a low total systems cost to protect tight IT budgets as data grows."