Commvault adds “tape killer” AWS Glacier Deep Archive cold storage

Backup program provider Commvault has extended support to Amazon’s S3 Glacier Deep Archive cold storage product.

The pierce comes alongside what Commvault believes is a trend among a business to quit long-term information influence from tape to cloud storage.

The further of Glacier Deep Archive support comes in use container 15 to Commvault’s chronicle 11, that was expelled recently.

Glacier Deep Archive was announced in Dec 2018 during Amazon’s re:Invent event. Amazon positions Deep Archive as a “tape killer” with costs of $1 per terabyte or reduction than 1C per gigabyte.

Commvault executives consider a pierce towards a cloud and away from tape is a pivotal trend among a customers.

Marketing executive Penny Gralewski pronounced a association had found in a consult conducted final Apr among 260 Commvault users that 39% that use a cloud for information influence had opted to spin off tape.

Addition of Glacier Deep Archive brings to around 40 cloud services that Commvault supports, including those from a biggest 3 cloud providers – AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform – and their offerings, as good as others from a likes of IBM, Oracle and private clouds.

Commvault also provides cloud-to-cloud backup and, according to selling executive Lance Shaw, it is saying augmenting moves by business towards relocating applications to a cloud and a deployment of cloud-native applications such as Salesforce.com and Microsoft Office365.

Quoting a same consult as Gralewski, Shaw pronounced 63% of business that keep information in a cloud use some-more than one cloud. “People are selecting opposite clouds for opposite use cases,” he said.

Cold storage in a cloud is offering by all 3 of a large 3 cloud providers. The several services – such as Azure Cool Blob and Google’s Coldline – yield storage for information that is expected to be really intermittently or never accessed again, though that contingency be kept. Similar use exist that are formed on tape, such as that from Iron Mountain.

Compared to in-house fasten archiving, cold storage in a cloud reduces government cost and beyond for a organization internally, though will catch costs for information transformation in and out of a cold storage service.

An advantage of fasten is that it is insulated from a wider network, while cloud storage is potentially exposed to intruders.