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The SIGMA Group Chooses ExaGrid to Back Up Customer Data
INFIDIS introduces The SIGMA Group to ExaGrid as an Optimized Backup
today announced that INFIDIS, a global IT integrator and
solutions provider, led The SIGMA Group to choose
ExaGrid’s tiered backup storage solution to enhance data
protection and optimize its backups and data restoration
capabilities, needed to offer its customers backup as a
service.
The SIGMA Group is a digital services company based in
France, specialized in software publishing, integration of
tailor-made digital solutions, and outsourcing of
information systems and cloud solutions. The SIGMA Group
now uses ExaGrid to store customer backups, as well as its
own backed up data, in addition to using ExaGrid to
replicate data from its primary site to its disaster recovery
(DR) site. Adding ExaGrid to The SIGMA Group’s backup
environment has allowed the company to keep up with
customer data growth and deliver on its SLAs.
“To meet Sigma’s expectations, INFIDIS proposed the
ExaGrid solution because of the many benefits it offers such
as performance that is guaranteed over time, predictable
costs, a scalable architecture which allows for progressive
and granular investments as needed, very fast tape copy,
and easily maintained long-term retention,” said Frédéric
Floret, IT Business Engineer at INFIDIS.
“Using ExaGrid allows us to provide high-quality backup
services to our customers,” said Mickaël Collet, cloud
architect at The SIGMA Group. “We guarantee high SLAs
especially on backup services and ExaGrid helps us to
deliver on those. Our backup services include performance
commitments on restorations and ExaGrid’s Landing Zone
allows us to keep the freshest data in a non-deduplicated
format to guarantee optimal restoration performance.”
The SIGMA Group is responsible for backing up 650TB of
customer data, which is backed up in daily incrementals, as
well as weekly and monthly fulls. The SIGMA Group’s IT
staff have found that ExaGrid’s unique scale-out
architecture has been helpful in keeping up with growing
data. “We need to adjust capacity as closely as possible to
customer needs and not have to oversize backup
infrastructures based on growth forecasts,” said Alexandre
Chaillou, infrastructure manager at The SIGMA Group. “We
started with two ExaGrid systems, with one appliance at
our primary data center and one at our remote data center.
We expanded our two ExaGrid systems, which now are
made up of 14 ExaGrid appliances. ExaGrid’s scale-out
approach allows us to add capacity while making it possible
to only add what is needed.”
ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing
Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest
possible backup performance, which results in the shortest
backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs
deduplication and replication in parallel with backups while
providing full system resources to the backups for the
shortest backup window.
All of ExaGrid’s appliances contain not just disk but also
processing power, memory, and bandwidth. When the
system needs to expand, additional appliances are simply
attached to the existing system. This type of configuration
allows the system to maintain all the aspects of
performance as the amount of data grows, allowing
organizations to pay for what they need when they need it.
Appliances of any size or age can be mixed and matched in
a single system with capacities of up to a 2PB full backup
plus retention and an ingest rate of up to 432TB per hour.
Once virtualized, they appear as a single system to the
backup server, and load balancing of all data across servers
is automatic.
