Battle of the Archiving Models - Part 2: On-premise vs. cloud
Why cloud?
In today’s technology-consumed world, it seems as though more and more businesses are migrating their archived data to the cloud and abandoning their on-premise archive systems. But why?
Benefits of the cloud
Industry-leading analyst, Gartner, has estimated that Software as a Service (SaaS) revenue is to pass the $12 billion mark in 2011, which is a 20.7% increase over 2010’s $10 billion record. The main reasons for this marginal increase in SaaS and cloud services are due to cost, powerful search capabilities, accessibility, eDiscovery needs and security.
- Cost-effective price
- Deploying in the cloud requires no on-premise hardware or software.
- For example, Sonian has a one-time low monthly per-user price. No fine print or extra/hidden fees.
- On-premise solutions has costly IT and maintenance fees.
- Powerful search
- With data stored in the cloud, you can search through your archive in less than half the time it would take in an on-premise system.
- For instance, Sonian has AES 256-bit encryption in transit and at rest, allowing users to access their data within seconds! Try out the Sonian sandbox! Demo our product and see how the cloud really works!
- You could spend days, weeks, or even months searching for a specific piece of data in an on-premise archive.
- Instant accessibility
- Regardless of the time or day, you can access your archived information when stored in the cloud. With Sonian, once you’ve stored your information, it will be archived, accessible and searchable for forever.
- Due to the one location of an on-premise system, time and date could hinder your accessibility to your archive.
- Streamlined compliance and eDiscovery needs
- There are rules and regulations (FINRA, HIPAA, SEC, etc.) most industries must abide by that require maintaining emails and other pertinent business information for “x” amount of years. Cloud services improve meeting these eDiscovery needs and compliance regulations through automated services.
- Sonian’s cloud-powered service can define specific archive retention policies that align with their requirements.
- Most of these regulations have strict deadlines, but on-premise systems often delay this process with the amount of time it takes to search the physical archive and the lack of eDiscovery and compliance services.
The cloud is a powerful, accessible and cost-efficient product. Compared to on-premise models, the cloud is infinitely more scalable, provides more elasticity and can meet eDiscovery needs effortlessly.
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