Cloud Archive with HubStor for Azure

If your organisation generates huge amounts of data that’s rarely accessed, yet needs to be retained in the long term, Microsoft’s Azure Archive storage now represents great value*.

Getting the maximum value out of the flexibility that Azure storage options offer can be quite a challenge – even for IT experts.

Using HubStor SaaS, either in your Azure tenancy or ours, you can harness all the cost-saving advantages of the Azure Archive Tier (and other tiers), with an array of value-add services that include:

Automated tiering – Use analytics-driven policies to intelligently move data between the most appropriate tiers
Advanced search – Quickly pinpoint & retrieve the content you need & minimise data egress costs.
App support – Deliver services for archiving & backing up SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, on-premises file shares, etc
Analytics – Understand storage costs & associate consumption with users, departments, projects, etc.
Compression and single-instancing – Reduce your costs even further
Encryption, WORM & data governance – Meet your compliance needs relating to GDPR etc.
Resilience – Protect your data with automatic redundancy, versioning & granular recovery
eDiscovery, legal hold and export – Meet the needs of your legal department

*Microsoft recently lowered Archive tier pricing for all regions. In some cases, costs for the Archive tier are as low as 1.5p/GB/year. For one PB, that works out to a storage cost of around £16,200 annually.

It’s easy to get started

Our customers typically use our highly scalable, lightweight app services to deliver a range of services:

Provide a transparent extension to your on-premises storage,
Accept journaling feeds from Office 365,
Ingest legacy email archives, journals and PST files,
Run backup and archiving rules against your Office 365 tenant (for mailboxes, OneDrives, SharePoint, Teams (including Teams Chats)

If you have PBs to move, you can use our Azure Import service to side-step network bandwidth issues involved with moving large volumes to the cloud. Uniquely, HubStor also supports the synchronisation of access rights, metadata, and folder structure for the imported content.

Recent changes to Azure’s and HubStor’s pricing structures mean large data can be:

Ingested for less – By not marking up storage operations costs, you will not see large spikes when seeding workloads that have high object counts.
Extracted for less – Egress costs no longer have a HubStor markup applied, so large downloads will not significantly spike costs.
Moved around for less – By exempting both normal egress bandwidth geo-replication bandwidth, pricing for GRS, RA-GRS, or HubStor’s cloud backup are significantly less.

Take full advantage of Microsoft’s archive tier – without the tears!

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How frequently each will be accessed?
How long will you need to keep the information in each?

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