Providing gateway to Azure Archive Storage
Introduction
For many businesses, data archiving is a crucial part of the overall backup strategy. While backups are focused on restoring the most recent data, archiving ensures that even data from decades ago remains accessible. When it comes to archiving, public cloud services like Azure Archive Storage are becoming an increasingly popular choice.
Problem
Choosing the right data archival solution means balancing a few key features. You need huge storage capacity for keeping historical data, strong security to protect against ransomware, and cost-efficiency to meet budget constraints.
Archiving business data often means keeping information that spans decades. And as data continues to grow, the ability to scale storage easily becomes a top priority. Meanwhile, ransomware remains one of the biggest threats to modern IT infrastructures, targeting everything from live data to backup and archival systems, rendering decades of information useless.
On top of that, combining security and large storage capacity often comes with a hefty price tag, forcing many companies to make compromises between these crucial features.
Solution
StarWind VTL offers the best of all worlds by providing a storage gateway to Azure Archive Storage for any backup application. It ensures flexible storage scaling that grows alongside your data, taking full advantage of the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of the public cloud.
On top of that, StarWind VTL ensures your data is protected against ransomware. This is achieved by storing data in a secure, write-protected virtual tape format presented to your backup application and sending it directly to immutable Azure Archive Storage, providing top-tier protection for your archived data.
Finally, StarWind VTL eliminates the trade-off between features and cost. Azure Archive Storage offers one of the lowest $/TB storage ratios in the industry, and with StarWind VTL, you can upload virtual tapes directly to the Archive tier, avoiding extra costs for data transfers between tiers.
Conclusion
StarWind VTL is the perfect fit for data archiving. It provides a storage gateway to Azure Archive Storage for any backup application, ensuring large storage capacities, ransomware protection, and cost-efficiency — all while staying within budget.
