American Railcar Switches to ExaGrid from Tape – Results in 50% Shorter Backup Windows and Cost/Time Savings
American Railcar Switches to ExaGrid from Tape – Results in 50% Shorter Backup Windows and Cost/Time Savings
2 PagesCUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY Customer Overview American Railcar Industries, Inc. (ARI) is a leading North American designer and manufacturer of hopper and tank railcars, providing its railcar customers with integrated solutions through a comprehensive set of high-quality products and related services. ARI manufactures, sells, and repairs railcars, custom-designed railcar parts, and other industrial products. Using Tape Led to Costly Backup and Slow Data Restores American Railcar Industries, Inc. (ARI) had been backing up its data to tape using Veritas Backup Exec. John Bivens, ARI’s system administrator, found that this approach made restoring data difficult and slow, in part because the tapes were stored elsewhere. “All backups were going to tape, and then the tapes were moved offsi
