Cloud Storage

The Market's Most Flexible Data Storage as a Service Solution.

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Windstream Hosted Solutions Cloud Storage is a storage-on-demand, data storage solution that provides businesses with complete control over the storage, distribution and retrieval of data from any location, anytime, using a web services API (application program interface).

With Windstream Hosted Solutions Cloud Storage, our business customers have unmatched flexibility and control. Each customer specifies their data storage criteria through a web services API, allowing them to access and modify their storage capacity on demand. In addition, Cloud Storage eliminates the need to invest in expensive data storage infrastructure and associated maintenance costs. The result is the most flexible and cost efficient data storage solution on the market.

Built on EMC's Atmos platform, designed to help service providers, ISVs and developers manage and optimize external clouds, and powered from our enterprise-class data center, Cloud Storage combines massive scalability and unparalleled flexibility with automated data placement, efficiently delivering content and information anywhere in the world through a standard interface. Cloud Storage now leverages CloudArray™ from TwinStrata, to provide easy access and increased performance for applications accessing data through a Cloud Storage implementation.

Available as part of Windstream Hosted Solutions' Cloud platform or a standalone service, Cloud Storage delivers a full range of benefits that Windstream Hosted Solutions customers have come to rely on including rapid implementation, elimination of upfront capital expenditures on hardware, ongoing maintenance costs, and the ability to rapidly deploy additional storage on an as-needed basis. It's designed to help mid-sized businesses easily implement cloud storage infrastructures that support key data protection functionalities such as replication, backup/restore, data archiving, disaster recovery, data & application mobility, data availability/security, and elastic capacity.

Never before has there been an easier or more cost effective way to store your data.

Cloud Storage Attributes:

• Adaptive data storage that expands in real time to accommodate the amount of data inside
• Enterprise-grade network security features
• Pre-defined storage policies to control distribution of data
• API-based access so users can upload or retrieve data anywhere anytime from any device connected to the Internet
• Pay-for-what-you-use pricing that includes storage capacity, network, and security services
• Access to your data backed by a service-level agreement of 99.9% availability

Cloud Storage Benefits:

• Ability to specify location of the data, which impacts performance objectives and regulatory compliance
• Avoid upfront capital expenditures on hardware and ongoing operating expense on maintenance
• Utilize additional storage capacity without additional planning or integration
• Meet peak demand without over provisioning
• Supplement your other storage systems for cost-effective data retention