39%Cost / software licensing model

31%Poor

performance

30%Solution not scaling with us

28%Tape

replacement

Cloud storage can scale to virtually any size

Using the cloud means you can send data offsite immediately, without dealing with physical shipping and handling

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SteelStore is the only cloud integrated storage that enables customers to securely store data in the cloud of their choice at up to 90% less cost than traditional methods.

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Why Organizations Change Their Backup Solution and How Cloud Integrated Storage Can Help

40%Volume ofdata

How Disk, Tape, and Cloud Are Utilized Today

Disk is and should be the primary means of ingest into a data protection infrastructure and the first source of recovery for the following reasons:

Shortest backup windows

Most effective deduplication

Most flexible restoration optionDisk

Long-term rentention tier Management challenges

Cloud is certainly the future, but many struggle with backup-as-a-service (BaaS) and disk-to-cloud (D2C) offerings today.

Cloud integrated storage appliances can reduce data sets by up to 30x—combined with cloud economics, this means you can store large volumes of data at a low cost

Cloud integrated storage appliances keep a local cached copy of recent backups for rapid restores

Cloud storage is paid on a per-use basis, meaning you only pay for

what you use

Inexpensive Massively scalable

- Jason Buffington, ESG

Presents security challengesCloud

Cloud integrated storage brings the benefits of on-premises backup with cloud

Agents, jobs, and training stay in place

Local cloud integrated storage means fast backups and agile restores

Remote storage means data survivability and long-term retention

Tape has merits as a long-term retention tier but can have OpEx and CapEx challenges if not well managed.

Tape

It's time to reconsider how backups are done. Twenty-nine percent of the IT decision makers surveyed by ESG say their organizations want to improve backup and recovery in the next 12 months. In fact, improving backup and recovery and using cloud infrastructure services were the third and sixth most-cited IT priorities overall. Fortunately, a way exists to accomplish both of those objectives with a single action.

44%

How Organizations Are Currently Using Cloud Infrastructure Services

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CLOUD INTEGRATED

STORAGE

Data backup and archive

44%Disaster recovery

Every data protection modernization conversation today really has to include the cloud.”“Every data protection modernization conversation

today really has to include the cloud.”