Store PETABYTES locally at a low price.

Store petabytes with S3-to-Tape technology.

Local sovereignty. Hyperscaler costs. Clean margins.

Technology / Services

Use Case 5TB-20TB

The local S3 Cloud - with tape in the backend

S3-compatible storage.
Tape as a storage tier.
Ideal for the PAYG service model.

ECONOMY

Why DarkSite is economically superior

80%

Cost reduction

€/TB compared to disk solutions

2nd copy

Offline / Offsite

Band relocation

& automatic second data copy

∞

Scaling

Simply more tape -

no growth shocks

A fraction of the disk costs

Tape costs a fraction of SSD or HDD per TB – with comparable reliability for backup and archive workloads.

Copying and Outsourcing

Tapes are ideal for long-term archiving through off-site storage.
DarkSite can automatically manage second copies of the data.

Margin from the beginning

Not just after amortization. Thanks to the PAYG model, the margin is positive from the very first terabyte stored.

OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS

Backup Storage

Compatible with Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, Veritas, Rubrik and all common backup solutions. The S3 interface makes integration trivial.

Archive & Compliance

Long-term archiving for regulatory requirements. GDPR-compliant, European data sovereignty, immutable storage.

Second Copy / Immutable

A second copy without a second storage system. Immutable thanks to WORM tape – the most cost-effective solution for ransomware protection.

Data
Offloading

Relieve the burden on existing object stores. Cold data migrates to DarkSite – your primary storage remains performant and cost-effective.

FOCUS BACKUPS AND ARCHIVES

VEEAM BACKUP
AND ARCHIVE

Veeam offers a variety of options for the immutability of Veeam backup repositories.

According to the 3-2-1-0 rule, a data copy should be stored offsite and offline, i.e., not accessible.

Use cases for you:

Your VBR manages an S3 data copy in DarkSite .
Your VBR is archived into DarkSite .

We are happy to support you with solution design, sizing and onboarding.

COHESITY ARCHIVE

With Cohesity Data Protect and DarkSite, you can back up Cohesity backup replicas or archive Cohesity backups.

Your on-premises Cohesity instances maintain S3 replicas in your DarkSite.
Their cloud-based Cohesity clusters use an on-premises Cohesity Data Protect cluster as a replication target. From there Archive the data in DarkSite.

Our certified team of Cohesity support specialists will guide you through the solution design, sizing, and onboarding process.

RUBRIK ARCHIVE

Rubrik's Zero-Trust Data Security Technology enables archiving scenarios such as:

Your on-premises Rubrik instances manage a Rubrik archive in the DarkSite.
Your Cloud Instances section uses DarkSite as a replication target and you archive your data in DarkSite.

Our certified team of Rubrik support specialists will guide you through the solution design, sizing, and onboarding process.