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Solution : Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

After evaluating a number of cloud storage options , including large competitors , Lehr selected Wasabi hot cloud storage for the company ’ s secondary storage platform . “ Quite simply , it would cost us about US $ 250,000 a year to store a petabyte of data with competitors . With Wasabi it costs about US $ 60,000 a year ,” said Lehr . “ And unlike with the other cloud services , with Wasabi there are no egress fees , which is incredibly important to us if we need to transfer data out of the cloud for any reason .”

Results : Affordable , efficient and durable storage

Wasabi serves as a cost-effective , efficient and reliable secondary storage repository . MayStreet archives historical and infrequently accessed data to Wasabi to free up on-prem storage capacity and avoid costly data centre storage expansions . In addition , the company backs up all of its data to Wasabi for Disaster Recovery .

Wasabi ’ s pay-as-you-grow pricing model lets MayStreet tightly align ongoing expenses with evolving capacity demands . The Wasabi solution protects and extends previous investments and helps MayStreet free up capital budget and staff for strategic initiatives .

“ With Wasabi , we don ’ t have to worry about managing or scaling our storage infrastructure ,” says Lehr . “ Instead , our IT team can concentrate on developing innovative services and expanding our data collection network to support the business and improve our competitive advantage .”

Wasabi ’ s highly parallelised system architecture provides significantly faster read / write speeds than other cloud storage solutions . In the event of a catastrophe MayStreet can quickly retrieve backed up data from the cloud to restore services . Wasabi also provides eleven 9s ( 99.999999999 %) of object durability , ensuring the integrity of the company ’ s business-critical data assets .

Thanks to Wasabi , MayStreet is able to keep skyrocketing data growth in check . The economical , infinitely scalable , on-demand storage solution lets MayStreet slash storage expenses , improve IT agility and free up resources to focus on innovation .

We spoke to MayStreet ’ s Brian Goldberg , SVP of Engineering , to find out more about the Wasabi solution .

Can you tell us more about the challenges you needed to overcome ahead of deciding to work with Wasabi ?

We had petabyte level file archive needs and we were facing the choice of building an on-premises storage system or using cloud storage . On-premise storage would have cost a sizable amount of money but , more importantly , it would have required a lot of engineering time .

Cloud storage would be easy , but very expensive . Other providers would have cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and those charges were not cost effective .

Wasabi was the best of both worlds . Cloud storage , thus not requiring us to build a storage system . And it was cost effective , 20 % of the cost of competitors . Since it met both of those requirements , it was a no brainer .

When and why did you decide to start working with Wasabi ?

We started in 2019 . We decided to use Wasabi because of the items noted above . Plus , I knew the founders and trusted their abilities to deliver a quality service .

Wasabi ’ s free egress allows us to actually leverage their system . Without that , it would not be cost effective to store and retrieve archived data .

How does the Wasabi solution help your business day to day ?

It allows us to archive massive amounts of data very simply . Having an unlimited amount

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