Cloud Storage
Windstream Cloud Storage offers unmatched flexibility and cost-effective data storage solutions.
Windstream’s on-demand Cloud Storage gives you complete control over the storage, distribution and retrieval of data. Our cost-efficient cloud storage solutions eliminate the need to invest in expensive data storage infrastructure, while supporting businesses with key data storage, security and protection functions such as replication, backup/restore, data archiving, disaster recovery, data and application mobility, data availability/security and elastic capacity.
Value
- Eliminate up-front capital expenditures on hardware
- Avoid ongoing operating expense on maintenance of equipment
- Pay-for-what-you-use pricing includes data storage capacity, IT network and security services
- Get cost-effective data retention by supplementing your other storage systems
Convenience
- Implement data storage, distribution and retrieval services quickly and efficiently
- Retrieve or upload anywhere, anytime from any device connected to the Internet
- Specify data storage criteria through a web service’s API, allowing you to access and modify your cloud storage capacity on demand
- Rapidly deploy additional storage as needed
Efficiency
- Meet peak data storage demand without over provisioning
- Use additional cloud storage capacity without additional planning or integration
- Expand data storage as needed, real time, with adaptive data storage
- Specify location of data, which helps meet performance objectives and regulatory compliance
Security
- Gain enterprise-grade network security features
- Experience 99.9% availability of data, backed by your service-level agreement
- Control distribution of data with pre-defined storage policies
Leading Technology
- EMC Atmos platform provides the foundation to efficiently manage, protect and store distributed, unstructured content at scale
- CloudArray™ from TwinStrata is a storage gateway appliance leveraged to enable organizations to instantly expand storage capacity securely using one or more cloud storage providers
- Our enterprise-class Data Center powers our Cloud Storage, combining massive scalability and unparalleled flexibility with automated data placement, delivering content and information anywhere in the world through a standard interface