The product, when used in conjunction with an AWS Storage Gateway and Amazon cloud storage, delivers unparalleled data availability, flexibility, and protection for branch infrastructure, while simultaneously reducing data center storage requirements and improving data availability and recoverability by leveraging cheap, elastic cloud storage delivered via Amazon cloud storage services. By using an AWS Storage Gateway with the product, businesses can begin the transition to a storage-less data center, where all storage is served by the cloud on demand, through the product, to applications and users.

Branch offices with constrained network links now have all the same cloud storage benefits that data centers have through the use of the product and Amazon without compromising data, performance, and application availability. The problems of delivering cost-effective storage to branches that can be managed and controlled centrally have been improved, allowing for a storage tier that can efficiently and effectively scale with business requirements. Rebuilding damaged or destroyed branch office environments is no longer a days-long recovery time objective, but one that can be compressed to as little as an hour, even though data resides two links away within Amazon cloud storage. With the ability to utilize Amazon Direct Connect capabilities, the product can consolidate storage services away from the data center into managed public or private clouds, allowing businesses to access cloud storage at high bandwidth speeds and without the need to have a true data center storage environment.