ExaGrid, widely recognized for delivering the industry’s only AI-powered tiered backup storage solution with a tiered air gap, has announced the availability of its new all-flash/SSD tiered backup storage appliances. This latest offering introduces a unique front-end target zone combined with a secure tiered air gap repository that stores all backups using advanced data deduplication. Available with ExaGrid software version 8, the new SSD-based systems are designed to meet the growing demand for faster, more secure, and more scalable backup and recovery solutions.
To begin with, ExaGrid’s architecture clearly differentiates itself from traditional SSD-based backup products. Its distinctive landing zone and scale-out design significantly accelerate backup and restore operations as data volumes increase. Compared to other solutions in the market, such as Dell Data Domain deduplication appliances or Pure Storage’s direct SSD offerings, ExaGrid’s approach scales performance alongside capacity, rather than slowing down as environments grow. As a result, enterprises can maintain consistent backup windows even as their data footprints expand.
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Moreover, after three years of focused software innovation paired with high-performance SSD hardware, ExaGrid has optimized its systems to require a much smaller target zone than HDD-based configurations. Consequently, customers benefit from reduced SSD capacity requirements, which directly translates into lower costs. Unlike primary SSD storage platforms used for backups that offer little to no deduplication, ExaGrid delivers industry-leading data reduction. The company also provides direct drive calculators to clearly demonstrate the cost efficiencies achieved through its deduplication-first design.
In terms of scalability, ExaGrid has introduced four SSD models EX90-SSD, EX135-SSD, EX270-SSD, and EX540-SSD that support scale-up deployments capable of storing more than 17PB of full backups within a single system. Additionally, organizations can scale out to as many as 32 appliances in one environment, ensuring flexibility for both mid-sized and large enterprises.
Security and ransomware resilience remain central to the platform. ExaGrid continues to offer the industry’s only AI-powered Retention Time-Lock for ransomware recovery. This includes Auto Detect & Guard, which identifies anomalies, alerts administrators, and safeguards recovery data. Furthermore, the solution features a tiered air gap layer that is invisible and inaccessible to attackers, delayed deletion to protect backup integrity, and immutable data objects to prevent unauthorized changes.
Beyond security, ExaGrid supports more than 25 backup applications and tools, including Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, NetBackup, Cohesity, Oracle RMAN Direct, SQL dumps, and others. Organizations can enable or disable native deduplication from leading backup vendors while still benefiting from ExaGrid’s additional deduplication and optional compression, resulting in substantial storage and cost savings.
Importantly, the platform fulfills all six critical backup retention requirements, ranging from faster backups and recoveries to true scalability, comprehensive disaster recovery options, and the lowest initial and long-term costs. Fixed pricing for five years and a no-forced-obsolescence policy further strengthen its value proposition.
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“ExaGrid continues to grow and enjoys solid financial health, as evidenced by our positive P&L, EBITDA, and free cash flow performance over the past 20 quarters,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “2025 was a very successful year for us; we intend to maintain our double-digit revenue growth momentum in 2026. With the recent announcement of the availability of full SSD-based appliances, ExaGrid can now offer customers the choice between SSD and HDD. Choosing SSD saves on power and cooling costs, requires minimal space, and enables faster backup and recovery. Furthermore, customers can choose to use only SSD solutions, deploy them in critical locations and HDD in non-critical locations, or choose SSD for data storage and HDD for disaster recovery to save costs. This gives them flexibility and choice.”
Overall, ExaGrid’s all-flash SSD tiered backup storage marks a significant step forward for enterprises seeking high-performance, cost-efficient, and ransomware-resilient data protection solutions.
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