Case Study
Easy-to-Use ExaGrid System Provides Reliable Backup Storage and DR for GICSD
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY Customer Overview Grand Island Central School District (GICSD) is a K-12 school district in Western New York whose mission is to foster academic excellence, personal growth, and social responsibility. Backup Jobs Stay on Schedule Grand Island Central School District (GICSD) has been backing up its data to an ExaGrid system for a number of years, using Veritas Backup Exec. Its environment is mostly virtualized, and its data is primarily made up of documents stored by its faculty, staff, and students, who are each assigned a home folder in a file redirection system. “We back up data on a daily basis and run different types of backup jobs throughout the week, ” said Josh Nichols, GICSD’s network systems administrator. “We have a rotating schedule of differen