Abi Benecke

About Abi Benecke

Principal Systems Engineer/Senior Storage Architect and Backup and Recovery Specialist

Experience

1. Principal Systems Engineer

   ExaGrid

   Aug 2015 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Fastest, most scalable disk backup with data deduplication at a cost comparable to tapeExaGrid provides the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication that offers best-of-breed solutions for these 10 essential capabilities:* Storage efficiency from 10:1 to 50:1 via byte-level data dedupe* Quick installation with a turnkey plug-and-play backup appliance* No change to your existing backup application via NAS interface* Shortest backup window, using post-process data deduplication* Fastest restore and tape copy by storing a full recent backup copy* No performance degradation or forklift upgrades via GRID scalability* Unparalleled scalability from 3TBs to 2PBs (over 12PBs logical)* Fast disaster recovery via WAN-efficient replication & rapid restore* Deduplication and replication status via job-level reporting* Lowest price and IT operational costs through unique architecture

Education

• US Army Intelligence School, Ft. Devens, MA

  Electronic Warfare Strategic Systems Intelligence Gathering Sub-Systems Repairer, Electronics

  1987 — 1989

Skills

• Cloud Computing
• Hitachi Storage
• Storage Architecture
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Cluster
• Unix
• Hardware
• Hp-UX
• Clariion
• File Systems
• Disaster Recovery
• Sun
• Ilm
• Solaris
• Pre-Sales
• Vdi
• System Administration
• Hp
• Storage Management
• High Availability
• Vtl
• Cloud Storage
• Deduplication
• Veritas Volume Manager
• Disk Arrays
• Netbackup
• Brocade
• Vmware
• Emc Storage
• Server Architecture
• Storage Solutions
• Virtualization
• Tape Libraries
• Windows
• Backup Solutions
• Backup & Restore
• Replication
• Netapp
• Nas