Gardner Trucking Chooses ExaGrid D2D System

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced that Gardner
Trucking has chosen the ExaGrid system to achieve faster backups and
restores, and reduce the hassles of tape backup. 

Based in Chino, California, Gardner Trucking operates a fleet of trucks
throughout eleven western states. Gardner Trucking offers a full range
of services including line haul, dedicated and full-service logistics,
and its large fleet of trailing equipment includes dry vans, roller
vans, curtain vans, flatbeds and double flatbeds. Gardner Trucking also
has a second terminal in Tracy, California and operates 42 dedicated
fleets on-site at various customer locations.

“We were impressed with ExaGrid’s
approach to data de-duplication, and we liked the fact that the system
was scalable so that we could easily expand it as our data grew,”
said Gary Larson, CIO, Gardner Trucking. “With
ExaGrid, the speed of our backups has been amazing. We are now able to
complete full backups in less than two hours instead of the 13 it took
with tape.”

The ExaGrid system works alongside Gardner Trucking’s
existing backup application, Symantec Backup Exec
and also backs up the company’s VMware server
images.

“Cost-effectiveness was also another major
consideration in choosing ExaGrid,” said
Larson. “The ExaGrid system offered much
better price/performance than the other solutions. Some of the other
solutions appeared less expensive on the surface, but when we added in
ExaGrid’s data de-duplication technology, and
the fact that it results in us using less disk space, the ExaGrid system
came in at approximately 25 percent the cost of competitive solutions.”

ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

Gardner Trucking, Inc.