Eon’s Cloud Backup Platform Overview

When evaluating backup solutions, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a critical factor for enterprises to consider. TCO extends beyond the upfront costs to include the hidden expenses inherent to legacy data protection strategies.

So, why exactly is TCO so critical to consider for cloud backup solutions?

Over-backing up data leads to excessive storage costs and resource waste, while under-backing up exposes organizations to severe risk of data loss and non-compliance. 

Additionally, traditional restore processes are bulky, unwieldy, and labor-intensive, and tend to incur high costs, both in employee time and cloud compute/storage resources, as entire volumes or database instances need to be restored just to retrieve the specific data sought.

Inadequate backup posture controls ultimately leave organizations exposed to ransomware and data exfiltration, while the lack of global search and granular restore capabilities hinder operations teams’ ability to quickly recover from such events. 

A well-optimized backup solution minimizes these hidden costs by ensuring precise data coverage, efficient restore capabilities, and streamlined processes that reduce operational overhead and risk.

The Eon Storage Tier, engineered from the ground up for efficient backups, saves customers on storage alone

While Eon provides lower TCO for cloud customers overall, adjusting the hidden costs of data protection, we also improve on the most obvious cost of cloud backups: storage itself. Eon is able to save customers up to 50% on cloud backup cost just by converting their existing backups into Eon snapshots. We achieve this by providing a storage tier that is designed to efficiently store backups of cloud infrastructure resources. With both compression and deduplication ingesting data into the storage tier, customers ultimately benefit when switching away from traditional uncompressed cloud snapshots. 

Addressing the hidden costs of cloud data protection

Let's look at how Eon addresses the hidden costs of cloud data protection, and see how the TCO of Eon stacks up to the competition in a number of dimensions.

Reducing TCO with insight into which workloads should be backed up, and which shouldn’t. According to industry reports, ⅓ or more of IT budgets are wasted.

 As the first backup solution to deliver automated discovery, classification, and policy enforcement across multi-cloud environments, Eon significantly lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of an enterprise’s backup strategy. By eliminating the need for manual tagging while still allowing existing metadata and tags to be used, customers gain newfound levels of insight into the applications and data they are backing up without the need for any extra configuration or setup.

With this added visibility, Eon’s automated cloud resource discovery helps customers prevent over-backing up of cloud resources. Eon provides a comprehensive view of the current backup posture as it applies to sometimes thousands of cloud resources across accounts, enabling enterprises to identify inefficiencies and risks quickly. With centralized backup policies that apply consistently across all teams and cloud environments, Eon simplifies management, reduces errors, and ensures compliance, ultimately saving costs while improving data protection.

Reducing operational and administrative toil allows technical teams to focus on what they do best

Eon empowers teams to unlock the full value of their backup solution by providing a single pane of glass for an enterprise's entire cloud environment and related backup posture. As an agentless solution, Eon requires no software installation or additional compute resources running alongside production workloads, ensuring minimal disruption to operations while streamlining backup and recovery processes. This equips our customers with an intuitive console interface and well-documented data protection API that requires minimal operational overhead and investment.

A seamless and unified data-protection platform, Eon also eliminates the need for labor-intensive backup projects for individual teams, reducing administrative overhead and freeing up valuable planning and development resources. Eon’s global search and granular restore capabilities allow users to quickly locate and retrieve specific data without restoring entire environments, saving both operator time and cloud compute/storage costs. This combination of simplicity, efficiency, and accessibility transforms backups from a burdensome necessity into a strategic asset for any enterprise.

Backup posture means being able to respond to and recover from unexpected data breaches and data loss. 

Eon enhances these capabilities for every customer, without the need to install any software or purchase any license.

Beyond offering the benefits of a more efficient backup solution, built for the cloud from the ground up, Eon provides additional capabilities that enhance enterprises’ ability to improve security and compliance. For instance, our global search and granular restore capabilities eliminate the need to restore entire environments to recover data, allowing enterprises to quickly recover specific files or database records, saving time and reducing cloud compute and storage costs in the process. These capabilities can save cloud teams an unprecedented amount of manual work, allowing them to rise above the typical operational efficiencies that plague traditional recovery processes and mitigate the high associated costs of these otherwise tedious operations.

Cloud consumption cost savings

Now that we understand the factors that go into TCO analysis of a data protection solution, let’s take a look at a comparison of cloud consumption cost of AWS Backup versus Eon:

In the above table, cloud consumption costs for workloads commonly seen among our customers are compared. Eon improves cost and operation efficiency of enterprise data in many more ways than raw cloud compute and storage costs:

Increased visibility leads to savings from over-backup

When enterprises don’t have a good grasp on their current backup posture, it’s easy for cloud consumption waste to get out of control due to over-backup of non-critical workloads. At Eon, we often find our customers are able to quickly realize significant savings as soon as the proof-of-concept phase, as they review Eon’s automatic discovery of cloud resources:

When Eon’s discovery automatically inventories an organization’s cloud resources, in addition to running automated data and environment classification, it also determines if existing snapshots exist for those resources.

When one Eon customer reviewed their initial environment classification results, they found a large, non-critical workload with over 10,000 snapshots they were previously unaware of. Deletion of the unnecessary snapshots and the setting of an appropriate retention policy saved this enterprise tens of thousands of dollars right off the bat!

Limiting exposure to catastrophic data-loss

According to an IBM report, the average cost of a data breach (including ransomware) is $4.88 million. This represents an increase of 10% from the previous year, the highest ever. Data has already become the single most valuable asset of most businesses. 

An insufficient backup posture can be what makes the difference between normal business operations and a critical workload becoming another industry data-loss statistic.

In 2023, a major US casino corporation reported a $100 million loss from an extensive ransomware attack on its operations. Much of the financial loss in such breaches come not from the initial loss of data, but the hit to reputation and lost revenue from stalled operations as IT teams struggle to recover in a timely manner. 

Eon’s global search and granular restore capabilities helps enterprises maintain access to backed up data, and the ability to restore it in a precise, efficient, and timely manner. In the case of relational database restores, for example, Eon enables customers to query the backup storage tier and securely restore individual tables or rows into live, running databases. In a ransomware recovery scenario, this can not just save precious time for operations teams, but prevent further data loss from exposing potentially compromised workloads to further attack. 

What’s next?

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