Flexential Archive Storage Powered by Wasabi

Flexential, provider of data center colocation and hybrid IT solutions, announced the addition of Flexential Archive Storage to the company’s family of data protection offerings.

This solution, designed to enable businesses to store long-term unstructured data from any source in an affordable, fast and straightforward way is powered by Wasabi Technologies, Inc., the cloud storage platform that is 80% less expensive than its nearest competitor. This solution marks the company’s continued investment in data protection and the evolution of products designed to help businesses during this new ‘Working from Home’ era.

“At Flexential, we understand that not all data is created equal,” said Mike Fuhrman, COO, cloud and managed services, Flexential. “Our ultimate promise to our customers is to give them flexibility when it comes to their data. With Flexential Archive Storage, we are fulfilling that promise by extending our data protection portfolio, making it possible to store data according to its criticality to the business.“

Flexential Archive Storage is designed for unstructured data such as video footage, backup solution tape replacement, images and documents that are not retrieved often but need to be stored safely and securely. Many businesses and organizations store data not accessed frequently due to data retention policies or legal mandates that govern how long data must be retained.

It provides a scalable and cost-effective option that meets regulations for data protection and retention while also keeping the data accessible as needed.The billing model is simple. Customers pay for the space reserved and pay no charges for API requests or additional network fees, making the service simple and predictable. This cost savings is critical as the requirement to store data will likely multiply for businesses in the coming years as Gartner predicts ⁽¹⁾ (Gartner’s subscription required), “By 2024, enterprises will triple their unstructured data stored as file or object storage from what they have in 2019.“

The wo firms are also announcing a joint offering located in Flexential’s Dallas, TX, – Plano data center, to expand the Wasabi service to the southern and central parts of the United States. This central region will service expanding data needs in the central and southern US and complement the existing footprint in the West in Oregon and in the East in Virginia. The combined solution empowers enterprises to store more data for less and reduce IT budgets, so businesses can focus their time and capital on other core objectives.

The company also offers customers the ability to connect directly to the Wasabi Vaults in the West, Central and Eastern regions through the FlexAnywhere network providing a faster, lower latency and reliable connection.

“With Wasabi, Flexential can offer hot storage performance for archival storage with really simple pricing. Storing large amounts of archival data can be a burden for any company, particularly those where data must be stored for long periods of time to meet regulatory requirements.” said David Friend, CEO, Wasabi. “Flexential is one of the first data center providers to add cloud storage as a core service for their data center customers. Every customer needs some amount of storage, and Flexential can now provide that storage at a cost that is lower than owning and operating traditional hardware storage.“

Flexential Archive Storage is part of a broader portfolio of object-based storage options that gives customers the flexibility to subscribe to the storage solution that suits their data needs according to its criticality to the business and retrieval and compliance requirements. This enhancement to the portfolio makes Flexential a one-stop shop for data protection requirements, outfitting a range of data protection use cases.

⁽¹⁾ Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, September 30, 2019 by Julia Palmer, Raj Bala and Chandra Mukhyala.

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