ExaGrid, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, announced that the company was honored with two awards at the 13th annual SDC Awards ceremony, Angel Business Communications’ premier IT awards – the Storage, Digitalisation + Cloud Awards, held in London on November 24, 2022. ExaGrid won “Storage Company of the Year” and “Vendor Channel Program of the Year,” making it the third year in a row for each. These new award wins add to ExaGrid’s previous four wins this past fall, totaling six industry awards in 2022.
“Congratulations to all the 2022 winners! We are certainly in good company. Since these awards are voted on by the public, it means a great deal to us. We will continue to push the limits with our Tiered Backup Storage solution and expert-level support.”
ExaGrid’s Reseller Partner Program won “Vendor Channel Program of the Year.” ExaGrid offers one of the best deal registration programs in the industry to drive high margins along with deal SPIFFs and meeting maker bonuses. In addition, ExaGrid offers an optional Solutions Architects certification at no charge to become an ExaGrid Certified Solutions Architect. ExaGrid works with resellers and distributors worldwide and has customer installations in over 80 countries. The ExaGrid programs are designed to be easy for partners, with full support from the ExaGrid sales team – resulting in a 75% competitive win rate. ExaGrid is known for having a Tiered Backup Storage system that is highly differentiated and provides its customers with stellar customer support from an assigned level 2 engineer, ensuring that partners’ customers receive class “A” support.
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ExaGrid also won “Storage Company of the Year” for the third year in a row. In 2021, ExaGrid expanded its product line with greater scalability up to 2.7PB full backup to a single system. In 2022, ExaGrid announced its Cloud Tier for Disaster Recovery in AWS and Azure as well as 30X faster Veeam synthetic fulls, improvements to its Retention Time-Lock features for ransomware recovery, and many other new features. ExaGrid has advanced IT tools and calculators to further assist a customer in calculating the true cost of backup storage up front and over time. These tools show customers what their costs of backup storage will be – inclusive of backup rotation, backup retention, yearly data growth, and second site disaster recovery.
ExaGrid has had back-to-back record quarters in 2022 and has expanded its customer base to over 3,600 customers in over 80 countries. ExaGrid continues to be cash positive, EBITDA positive, and P&L positive quarter after quarter. ExaGrid is the only company that is completely dedicated to backup storage, with a goal to solve the issues commonly experienced with backup solutions while providing the best value to its customers, including the fastest backups, fastest restores, a fixed length backup window as data grows, comprehensive security including ransomware recovery and low cost up front and overtime.
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“These two awards simply say it all. We apply 100% of our focus on serving our channel partners with our Tiered Backup Storage offering,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “Congratulations to all the 2022 winners! We are certainly in good company. Since these awards are voted on by the public, it means a great deal to us. We will continue to push the limits with our Tiered Backup Storage solution and expert-level support.”
ExaGrid continues to gain recognition for its Tiered Backup Storage appliances, winning six awards in 2022, which is the most for any backup storage provider in 2022, including:
- SDC Awards – Storage Company of the Year
- SDC Awards – Vendor Channel Program of the Year
- Storage Awards – Enterprise Backup Hardware Vendor of the Year
- Network Computing Awards – Bench Tested Product of the Year
- Network Computing Awards – Company of the Year
- Network Computing Awards – Storage Product of the Year