What enterprise cloud storage are you using for 250TB immutable backups?
Enterprise backup environments require immutable storage that balances reliability and disaster recovery performance under tight budget constraints like $20k per year. Finding a provider with minimal egress fees and reliable restore performance makes it difficult to choose between options like Wasabi, Backblaze, and AWS S3 Glacier.
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What enterprise cloud storage are you using for 250TB immutable backups?
- 1Using Wasabi with a direct connection to avoid egress feesDid this help you?
- 2Using Azure Immutable storage on a cold tierDid this help you?
- 3Using Backblaze because its byte-per-minute billing makes estimating costs easierDid this help you?
- 4Prioritizing the same cloud platform you intend to restore operations to, accepting egress fees as a necessary cost during an actual disasterDid this help you?
- 5Backing up to a local NAS first, then to an immutable cloud option like BackblazeDid this help you?
- 6Using various third-party cloud backup providers like AFI, VMOBackup, Dropsuite, AvePoint, Veeam, Axcient, Acronis, and DruvaDid this help you?
- 7Deploying a local Synology NAS with Synology Active Backup for BusinessDid this help you?
In their words
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“We're evaluating Veeam and Veritas NetBackup for an enterprise backup environment and need immutable S3 compatible cloud storage for roughly 250 TB of backups. Our main requirements are immutable storage for disaster recovery, a budget of around $20k per year, minimal or no egress fees, reliable restore performance, and enterprise level reliability. We're currently comparing options such as Wasabi, backblaze, AWS S3 Glacier and vendor managed storage. For those managing large backup environments, what cloud storage are you actually using and how has it performed during restores?”source ↗
“With the M365 outage today, what are we doing for cloud to cloud backups of M365 data? Have a few clients I support that are all cloud native with no physical infrastructure and I think now might be a good time to start offering cloud backups of cloud data.”source ↗
“Dropsuite was good but ninja one bought it.”source ↗
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