Public, Private, and

Traditional Backup
Storage Costs
JOERG HALLBAUER

Introduction
Many customers are asking about
backup to public cloud
Everyone assumes it would be cheaper
to store backup data in the public cloud
This presentation addresses the cost of
public cloud vs. private cloud and
traditional backup storage costs
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Assumptions
Public cloud backups are represented by AWS S3 storage
Assumption: Glacier is only and acceptable medium for long term deep archive
that have almost no retrieval activity.

Costs for S3 storage are obtained from the AWS Simple Monthly
Calculator
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

Costs for Google storage were obtained from Google

https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing

Private cloud cost can be represented by

Quantum DXi or EMC Data Domain backup devices
On-site Object storage such as Cleversafe, Quantum Latus, etc.

Costs for On-site private cloud backups are derived from the costs
to EVT customers for this type of storage.
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4 Year TCO for 300TB of Backup

Storage
Inputs

Google

G
300000 B Storage
G
3000 B Network
300,00
0
Gets/Puts

Cleversafe AWS

$8,700.00

$9,300.00

DXi w/4:1
dedupe

DXi

$9,600.00 $10,470.00

$2,617.50

$330.00

$-

$600.00

$-

$-

$3.00

$-

$1.50

$-

$-

Total/Mou
nth

$10,201.5 $10,470.0
$9,033.00 $9,300.00
0
0

$2,617.50

Total/Year

$108,396. $111,600. $122,418. $125,640.

00
00
00
00

$31,410.00

$433,584. $446,400. $489,672. $502,560.

4 Year TCO
00
00
00
00 $125,640.00
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Storage

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Conclusions
There is no significant price difference between public cloud,
private object, and traditional backup storage.
In order to maintain price equivalence between all of the types of
storage studied, some kind of deduplication gateway device would
need to be placed in front of both the public and private object
storage, thus driving the cost up slightly.
We currently dont have cost information on these devices.
Note, this increases the complexity and the operational costs of object storage.
This also holds true for backups to S3 within AWS. An AMI of a deduplicating gateway
in front of S3 storage would still be needed to maintain cost parity.
The ability to provide a similar solution for Google is unclear at the moment.

Glacier storage is significantly cheaper ($0.11)/GB, however those costs

do not include retrieval fees. When typical retrieval fees are included,
cost can still be of S3 costs.
Typically, figure about $0.30/GB for data retrieval, however, this can go up significantly of you want the data in
less
than 24 hours.
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Thank You!

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