## Traditional Backup vs EXOCLOUD’s Modern Technology

| Traditional Backup Technologies | EXOCLOUD Modern Architecture |
| --- | --- |
| May take up to 2 weeks for data to be recovered after a disaster occurs. | Recovery process is reduced from days to minutes, immediately after a disaster strikes. |
| There is a very high risk for human error due to high levels of manual administration. Around 60% of on-site disasters are caused by human errors. | The whole backup process is completely automated and requires very little management and significantly reduced IT costs. |
| The process to test if a backup is working is both tedious and difficult. | Before being reported as successfully, every backup is tested first. There will be automated screenshots taken and automatically emailed. |
| It is both time consuming and very expensive to make backup copies and store them in multiple locations. | Each backup is stored in multiple locations, in both local appliance and secured data center. |
| Backup speeds are slow; will require approximately 2.5x to 3.5x of your system storage. | No chains and no multiple copies of data, will significantly reduce your IT expenses on hardware and storage. |
| High failure rate for physical to virtual conversions, and very time consuming. | Instant virtualization with the ready-to-go Virtual Hard Drive. |
| Lack of options for encryption of data; compressing data drives operational costs up. | Offers AES 256 military-grade encryption and GZIP4 compression ensured data is secure and safe, while reducing bandwidth by 80%. |
| Using tape or backup chains for backup has failure rates exceeding 40%. Base images with dependent chains built on top are susceptible to corruption which can destroy the backup set. | There is no risk of data loss; each snapshot is directly injected into an always-ready boot virtual hard drive.