E-Tech Systems Signs Korea Distributorship Agreement With ExaGrid to Target Backup Storage Market
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E-Tech Systems and ExaGrid announced on the 23rd that they had signed a domestic distributorship agreement.
E-Tech Systems will combine ExaGrid's dedicated backup storage technology with its existing data protection business to target the backup storage market.
The two companies plan to strengthen sales and technical support systems for domestic companies and pursue technical training, sales support, and joint marketing.
E-Tech Systems and ExaGrid announced on the 23rd that they had signed a domestic distributorship agreement. With this deal, E-Tech Systems will begin targeting the backup storage market.
E-Tech Systems plans to combine ExaGrid's dedicated backup storage technology with its existing data protection business. Through this, it aims to strengthen enterprise ransomware response and enhance support for data recovery.
ExaGrid is a company that provides dedicated appliances specialized for backup environments. It touts fast backup performance, fast recovery performance, deduplication technology optimized for long-term retention, and a flexible scale-out architecture capable of handling data growth.
ExaGrid's technology helps enterprises manage continuously growing backup data efficiently and supports the establishment of an environment that can quickly recover data when a failure or cyberattack occurs. Based on this, E-Tech Systems is moving to expand the backup storage market.
ExaGrid has "air-gap" technology and AI-based ransomware detection and response capabilities. The "air-gap" approach separates and protects backup data from the operating environment. Through this, ExaGrid protects backup data from cyberattacks and supports stable data recovery in the event of an attack or system failure. As a result, enterprise data protection levels and business continuity are strengthened.
As companies' adoption of AI and AI transformation (AX) has recently accelerated, the scale and importance of data are expanding rapidly. Accordingly, the need to establish a secure protection framework for core data generated in AI and AX environments, as well as a data protection framework that enables rapid recovery in the event of cyberattacks or system failures, is growing.
At the same time, as ransomware attacks have expanded from operating systems to backup data, the limits of conventional simple backups have come into focus. Accordingly, establishing a secure data retention framework and a rapid recovery framework are being presented as key tasks. In addition, the burden of storage costs as data continues to grow and the need to improve backup operational efficiency are emerging as issues.
To respond to changing market conditions, the two companies plan to strengthen ExaGrid tiered backup storage sales and technical support systems in Korea for local companies, while providing data protection solutions tailored to customers' IT environments and data protection requirements. They also plan to leverage E-Tech Systems' partner network to pursue technical training, sales support, and joint marketing for domestic IT companies, and based on this, the two companies plan to actively expand ExaGrid's presence in the Korean market.
In this regard, Lee Seung-young, head of ExaGrid Korea, said that ExaGrid has deep expertise in a variety of backup solutions and delivers optimized performance, cost efficiency, and security based on scale-out architecture. He explained that conventional general-purpose operational storage has limitations in meeting the demands of modern backup systems, and that older technology-based inline deduplication storage also has major limitations in meeting the demands of modern backup systems.
The company said that, based on its cooperation plan with E-Tech Systems, it aims to provide the differentiated value of specialized backup storage to various partners and customers.
Kim Beom-soo, CEO of E-Tech Systems, said that in the AI era, data's value as a core corporate asset is increasing and its importance is rising as data may also become a target of cyberattacks. He added that, with the ExaGrid-E-Tech Systems distributorship agreement as a starting point, the company will link E-Tech Systems' existing data protection solutions with ExaGrid's backup storage technology, strengthen the capabilities of both companies together, and work to enhance customers' business continuity and data protection capabilities.
Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gap
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