Information Technology

How much does additional electronic Storage cost?

Choose the column that best describes the features you need for enterprise storage for your files and data.

Feature

Platinum Storage Class

Gold Storage Class Silver Storage Class Custom Storage Class
Suggested Use Mission Critical Mission Critical Archives

I have special needs for data that do not meet any of these scenarios

 

The cost for custom storage will be negotiated

Availability High High Medium
Performance High Medium Medium
Mirroring Yes Yes No
Disaster Recovery Yes Yes Optional at $2.00/Gb
Incremental Backup Daily Daily Daily
Full Backup Monthly Monthly Monthly
File Recovery Period 6 Months 6 Months Variable, see next chart*
First Year Costs per Gb $18.65 $16.65 $2.20
Annual Maintenance Fee per Gb $6.75 $6.75 $0.19
Annual Backup Fee per Gb Included Included Based on File Recovery Period, see next chart*

*To determine costs per Gb for File Recovery in the Silver Storage Class, select the optimal time period for file recovery for your data. If you do not need the File Recovery feature, the cost is zero.

File Recovery Period.

For this kind of data, we only need to be able to recover files:

Cost per Gb
as far back as 3 months $5.69
as far back as 6 months $8.60
as far back as months $11.51
as far back as 1 year $14.42

 

 

 
 
 

 
  
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