he cloud has quickly become the preferred option for data storage and backup for businesses of all sizes. There are many reasons for this shift, but the most important ones are reliability, convenience, and cost-effectiveness. As tapes age, they can become less reliable and prone to restore issues. They also require a lot of time and effort to manage properly. In contrast, the cloud is much more reliable and convenient, and can often be less expensive in the long run. That's why more and more businesses are opting for tape to cloud migration. By moving their data to the cloud, they can enjoy greater peace of mind, knowing that their data is safe and accessible at all times. And because the cloud is so scalable, they can easily increase or decrease their storage capacity as needed, without having to invest in new hardware or software.

Our Catalog Services and Tape Restore Services offerings lead naturally into tape to disk or cloud migration projects. As such, the GEN3i Migration Services team has built capabilities around the unique challenges posed by this scenario. When moving very large volumes of data to cloud targets there are cost driving considerations such as the number of objects, network throughput/file transfer speeds, cloud storage costs and other considerations.

GEN3i Migration Services has developed expertise in the processes as well as proprietary software solutions to enable more efficient tape to cloud migrations. Our team has worked extensively with the leading cloud providers and leverages this expertise to optimize upload transfers while minimizing cloud provider ingress, egress and storage charges.

GMS has experience working with analytics and data deduplication tools which could enable further reduction in cloud storage consumption.