STORAGE AS A SERVICE (STaaS)
MADE IN GERMANY 4026 4126
CLOUD
ELASTIC
STORAGE
ARCHIVING
HOW DOES OUR ELASTIC CLOUD STORAGE WORK?
CLOUD BACKUP FILE SHARE
& SYNC
CUSTOM
APPS PACKAGED APPS INTERNET
OF THINGS ANALYTICS
http://ecs.global.de
HTTP/S (REST), S3, SMB, OpenStack Swift, Atmos, NFS, HDFS
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Elastic
Cloud Storage
How should you store, distribute and manage your data? If you’re
considering building your own repository, think twice before
jumping into that tar baby. The ever-growing racks of dedicated
hardware and software, the extra staff and maintenance costs, the
inevitable performance and backup failures –
it’s just not worth it.
Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
from Global Access gives you a
cost-effective
and scalable platform for
big data, file share & sync,
cloud backup, and data distribution & archiving
– all without the
headaches of ballooning infrastructure and staff costs. Our cloud
storage service is designed to provide modern applications with
unrivaled protection, availability and scale.
Oh sorry – perhaps you already know the benefits of cloud storage
but are eying the services of a few household names in Silicon
Valley and Seattle. Let us highlight a few points that set us apart.
Global Access ECS is housed solely in German data centers,
which
means it
complies with the highest data security standards
worldwide
. In other words, we are out of bounds for the NSA, the
Patriot Act and any other threats to your data.
If security is not your concern, how about this: our ECS lets you
seamlessly work with your data across multiple protocols
(S3, HDFS, Swift, NFS, SMB, and Atmos). This is what puts the
elastic
into ECS – you can combine the suite of services you need
without wasting time making your data intelligible across protocols.
OVERVIEW
If you’re new to the cloud, let us give you a quick earful of this windfall for the industry. The cloud arose to meet the goliath demands of mobile, big data and social applications. Traditional storage platforms were simply not designed to handle these modern data-guzzlers. Data used to be structured like your tidy old Rolodex, with clear tags for easy querying. But no one has time for this anymore.
Modern apps have to ingest masses of unstructured data and churn it out again in a sleek and understandable package. Using the cloud means you let the experts manage and protect your storage, compute and gateway servers so that you can focus on what matters: mining your data to grow your business.
THE MARVEL
OF THE CLOUD
ECS gives you an infinitely scalable platform to store, access and analyze massive amounts of structured and unstructured data. Compared to building your own storage center, it goes without saying that ECS is dramatically less expensive and time consuming. But what about accessibility? ECS lets you
consolidate multiple storage systems and content archives into a highly efficient
repository that you can access worldwide. These features are on par with Amazon S3 and Google Storage – but at a better price and with German engineering and security.
And we don’t stop there. Read on to find out how our ECS far surpasses the current standard.
BIG DATA STORAGE
& ACCESS
When working with big data, the main hurdle is running analytics to unlock business intelligence quickly. ECS lets you analyze all of your structured or unstructured object data using HDFS. No matter what protocol you use to upload and sync your data, you can use HDFS as an access protocol without any ETL process. So whether you’re using Horton, Pivotal or Cloudera big data platform,
our cloud provides all storage nodes without any additional costs for your compute and edge nodes to access!. As your need for storage and analytics grows, so do our ECS nodes. If you don’t quite get this, tell it to your techies and we promise they’ll be thrilled.
BIG DATA
ANALYTICS
In addition to the HDFS and S3 protocols, you can communicate in NFS for Linux OS, SMB for Windows OS, Atmos and Centera if you already use EMC stacks, or Swift if you’re working with an OpenStack compute platform.
Check out the protocol access sheet on pages 7 and 8 for details.
MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS &
API ACCESSIBLE
As your business goes deeper into the Internet of Things (IOT), you’ll need fluid integration between the physical world and computer-based systems. ECS is able to absorb and analyze massive amounts of unstructured workloads made up of both small and large object data. It is the ideal platform to distribute, protect and manage your data, letting you scale up your IOT content exponentially in the coming years.
INTERNET OF THINGS
CLOUD STORAGE
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Global Access is fully owned and operated within Germany, the world’s leader in data security. We were the first cloud service provider in Germany with an information security management system certificated to the German
IT-Grundschutz [IT baseline protection] – the highest data security & compliance standards worldwide. We have the top certifications in place (ISO & BSI 27001 / ISO 9001) and can guarantee under German law that the US Patriot Act cannot
be applied within our company.
That said, if you would like to double-ensure your security, ECS lets you encrypt your data before you store it. You keep all the keys and we cannot read the data. This additional service allows you to centrally set up, manage and maintain all encryption policies yourself.
GERMAN SECURITY
& COMPLIANCE
A company should never be scared of growth, yet plenty are forced to be cautious so as not to overwhelm their data resources. ECS does away with these fears, providing your applications with global accessibility and operational efficiency at any scale. Our service scales in terms of both load and functionality, so you
don’t have to worry about preconfiguring a cloud storage package from the start.
This means that you can maintain an agile business no matter how quickly your storage and computing needs expand.
SCALABILITY
You can access your ECS data through the Internet, through a private cloud connect line or from our data center. Of these options, the Internet is no doubt the most flexible, but it sometimes raises security concerns and might also be more expensive if you transfer a lot of data. We guarantee that your ECS always comes with Gateway Security Services for perimeter control to and from the Internet.
ACCESS THROUGH
THE INTERNET
Our Hybrid Billing model is simple and adaptable to your Global Access ECS environment.
a) The PAYG plan (pay-as-you-go) lets you select the resources you want to be billed per GB with no commitment. No usage – no cost!
b) The Reserved Billing plan lets you select the amount of fixed resources you need every month (over a 12-month period). This option gives you a higher
rebate compared to the PAYG plan. (Note: If you go over your plan, we simply bill the extra resources at the PAYG rate).
If you upgrade to add vDC to your portfolio of Global Access services, our unique
Hybrid Billing option also applies to RAM, CPU, disk space, security services and networks.
HYBRID
BILLING
A service has high availability (HA) if it can remain accessible even if a system component fails. Global Access ensures HA for its customers by running a distributed storage platform. Each part is backed up by a built-in spare which can take over seamlessly. This process is fully automated, and enough resources are always reserved for emergency scenarios.
HIGH AVAILABILITY
S3
NFS
SMB
HDFS
ATMOS
OPENSTACK
SWIFT
MULTI-PROTOCOL
ACCESS
CLIENT,
GATEWAY or
APPLICATION
HOW YOU
CONNECT
SERVER
ADDITIONAL INFO
SECURE
REPLICATION
OPENSTACK
COMPUTE
CLUSTER
BIG DATA
HADOOP
COMPUTE
HORTON PIVOTAL CLOUDERA
SERVER
EL
ASTIC CL
OUD STORA
GE
multi-pr
otocol access
CONNECTION VIA
Internet Private Cloud Connect Cloud IaaS Data Center Connect
BACKUP
OUTSOURCE ›
REMOTE STORAGE SOLUTIONDATA ARCHIVING
MANY MORE USES
∞
∞
∞
+
DISASTER RECOVERY FOR
EMC STORAGE SYSTEMS
(this would include compute & storage services)
OR JUST A REPLICATION SERVICE
(e.g. a second or third replication of your data)
DATA ARCHIVING
NON-ERASEABLE DATA ARCHIVING
MANY MORE USES
∞
∞
∞
∞
+
FILE SYSTEM FOR LINUX OS
∞
FILE SYSTEM FOR MS WINDOWS OS
∞
OPENSTACK COMPUTE PLATFORM
∞
SECURE
REPLICATION
STORAGE
HORTON PIVOTAL CLOUDERA
USE CASES ...
BIG DATA PLATFORM
MANY MORE USES
∞
+
EASE OF USE
• web-based management console
• integration with third party apps available
HIGH PERFORMANCE
• 99.97% availability
• multi-part uploads to maximize network
through-put and resiliency
• high data-transfer speeds
• discounted costs for all incoming traffic
DURABILITY
• 99,99999999999% data durability
• co-location data centers based in Munich
• 24/7 x 365
AFFORDABILITY
• simple pricing model
• Hybrid Billing: PAYG and/or
Reserved Billing
• no upfront or cancellation fees
• low rates for incoming traffic
(from 0.02 EUR/GB)
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PRICING COMPARISON TABLE
Amazon Google Microsoft Amazon S3 Storage Azure
Storage Plan Standard Standard Standard
Protocols S3 S3 S3, SMB
Object Availability
SLA 99.9% 99.9% 99.9%
PRICES
SPACE: First TB € 0.0286 € 0.0230 € 0.0203 Without Plan up to 50TB € 0.0350
SPACE: Next 49TB/mth € 0.0282 € 0.0230 € 0.0200 From 50TB/mth plan * € 0.0302
SPACE: Next 450TB/mth € 0.0277 € 0.0230 € 0.0196 From 500TB/mth plan * € 0.0288
SPACE: Next 500TB/mth € 0.0272 € 0.0230 € 0.0193 From 1PB/mth plan * € 0.0270
SPACE: Next 4000TB/mth € 0.0268 € 0.0230 € 0.1890 From 5PB/mth plan * € 0.0261
SPACE: Over 5000TB/mth € 0.0262 € 0.0230 n.a. From 10PB/mth plan * € 0.0234
Traffic from Internet € 0.0000 € 0.0000 € 0.0000Traffic from Internet € 0.0000 Traffic to Internet: Without plan per GB € 0.1200 Traffic to Internet: from 10TB/mth € 0.0796 € 0.0973 € 0.0734 Traffic to Internet: from 10TB/mth € 0.0697 Traffic to Internet: next 40TB/mth € 0.0752 € 0.0707 € 0.0700 Traffic to Internet: from 50TB/mth € 0.0658 Traffic to Internet: next 100TB/mth € 0.0619 € 0.0707 € 0.0591 Traffic to Internet: from 150TB/mth € 0.0542 Traffic to Internet: next 350TB/mth € 0.0442 € 0.0707 € 0.0422 Traffic to Internet: from 500TB/mth € 0.0387
each 1.000 Class A Operations € 0.0885 € 0.0884 € 0.000031each 1.000 Class A Operations € 0.0000
each 10.000 Class B Operations € 0.0885 € 0.0884 € 0.000310each 10.000 Class B Operations € 0.0000
Price Example 1
2TB data space/mth
400 GB outgoing network Internet traffic
40 GB incoming network Internet traffic
40€ 0.000 Class A Operations
40€ 0.000 Class B Operations
€ 127.58 € 123.82 € 69.68
Average price for each GB € 0.2552 € 0.2476 € 0.1394
Price Example 2
60TB data space/mth 50TB outgoing Internet traffic
10TB incoming Internet traffic
10€ 0.000 Class A Operations
1€ 0.00€ 0.000 Class B Operations
€ 5,846.15 € 5,485.24 € 4,913.31
Average price for each GB € 0.0974 € 0.0914 € 0.0819
S3, SMB, NFS, HDFS, OpenStack Swift, AtmosStandard
GLOBAL ACCESS Elastic cloud Storage
99.97%
99.99999999999%
€ 97.88 € 0.1958
€ 5,102.00
€ 0.0850
*Cloud Storage packages are set up for a 3-month minimum contract period. Prices for traffic and space are in GB units. One price is offered for all listed access protocols.
What are the advantages of using Global Access’s Elastic Cloud Storage with respect to the mentioned competitors?
No Patriot Act or Safe Harbor agreement to worry about – Global Access is solely owned, run and serviced in Munich, Germany, and has no place of business in the US. No more DIY – Global Access uses EMC ECS as the technical base for our Cloud Storage product, meaning that the client avoids the burden of infrastructure costs.
Simplified pricing model – With one price for all protocols and the Hybrid Billing option, there are no unpleasant surprises at the end of the month! Traffic in the Global Access Data Center, or vDC (IaaS), is only EUR 0.02/GB.
We have no upfront costs or contract termination fees.
Global Access customers can set up a contract that complies with the German data protection law (Section 11 BDSG).
Your Cloud Storage system can be locally audited. The entire Global Access team is based in Germany. We are experts in data security and privacy.
Our Cloud Storage product can be easily combined with a local data center and cloud services from Global Access. All support is available in German or English.
We pride ourselves in maintaining transparent communications and frequent contact with our clients. • • • • • • • • • • • •
