Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Hanzo

If your organization has a lot of archival data that it needs to be backed up for safekeeping, where it won't be touched except in a dire emergency, Amazon Glacier is perfect. In our case, we had a client that generates many TB of video and photo data at annual events and wanted to retain ALL of it, pre- and post- edit for potential use in a future museum. Using the Snowball device, we were able to move hundreds of TB of existing media data that was previously housed on multiple Thunderbolt drives, external RAIDs, etc, in an organized manner, to Amazon Glacier. Then, we were able to setup CloudBerry Backup on their production computers to continually backup any new media that they generated during their annual events.

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Hanzo is well suited for organizations where data is really important. It is less appropriate for the enterprise that do have not much relation with the data.

Incentivized

• Cheap storage of backup data.
• Can be used as a part of the entire suite of tools from Amazon, without requiring you to leave the familiar stack.

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• Data archiving
• Compliance management
• Manage data

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• Accessing data stored in Glacier is slow. That shouldn't be a surprise, but it is undesirable nonetheless.
• Retrieving a large amount of data can be expensive; Glacier's intended use is as an archive of rarely-accessed data.
• Some users regard Glacier with fear and uncertainty. Slow retrieval time and high retrieval cost are the greatest risks of using Glacier, and they are also the Glacier interaction that most users have the least experience with.

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• Analytics
• User dashboard could be designed better
• Email archiving could be added

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It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire.

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Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having *another* third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in money and time.

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The software's purpose is to make sure that the documentation gathering and management are easier. It is built with the intent to make sure all the compliance is being met. Other software present in the market is made with the view to make documentation available. This software is doing way more than that> It is used by the Human Resources department as well for risk mitigation.

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• Helped us meet compliance requirements while minimizing costs.
• Simple integration with almost no changes required to our existing S3 management policies.

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• Increased the data security
• Faster performance
• Increase in company revenue

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