{"id":103145,"date":"2021-10-11T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=103145"},"modified":"2022-07-14T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:06:34","slug":"analyst-firm-validates-b2-cloud-storage-platforms-time-and-budget-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/analyst-firm-validates-b2-cloud-storage-platforms-time-and-budget-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Firm Validates B2 Cloud Storage Platform\u2019s Time and Budget Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bb-bh-BBESG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bb-bh-BBESG2.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bb-bh-BBESG2-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bb-bh-BBESG2-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bb-bh-BBESG2-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bb-bh-BBESG2-560x319.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><strong>92% time savings. 71% storage cost savings. 3.7 times lower total cost than the competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are just some of the findings Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reported in a proprietary, economic validation analysis of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. To develop these findings, the ESG analysts did their proverbial research. They talked to customers. They validated use cases. They used our product and verified the accuracy of our listed pricing and cost calculator. And then, they took those results along with the knowledge they&#8217;ve gathered over 20 years of experience to quantify the bonafide benefits that organizations can expect by using the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their findings are now available to the public in the new ESG Economic Validation report, \u201cAnalyzing the Economic Benefits of the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Platform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding: 24px; border: 4px solid #eeeeee; border-radius: 12px; max-width: 88%; margin: 25px auto; box-shadow: #aaaaaa 10px 10px 5px; text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/f001.backblazeb2.com\/file\/backblaze-b2-collateral\/Report_ESG_Economic_Validation_Backblaze_B2_Cloud_Storage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the Full Report<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ESG\u2019s models predicted that the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage platform will give users an expected total cost of cloud storage that is 3.7 times lower than alternative cloud storage providers, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"abstract\" style=\"line-height: 1.8; margin: 24px 12px; padding: 24px 12px 10px 12px;\">\n<p><strong>Predicted savings of up to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>92% less time to manage data.<\/li>\n<li>72% lower cost of storage.<\/li>\n<li>91% lower cost of downloads and transactions.<\/li>\n<li>89% lower cost of migration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have time to read the full report, the infographic below illustrates the key findings. Click on the image to see it in full size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ESG-Infographic-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-BX2oR8Sy\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ESG-Infographic-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The Economic Value of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage\" class=\"wp-image-103166\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ESG-Infographic-scaled.jpg 429w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ESG-Infographic-343x2048.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you want to share this infographic on your site, copy the code below and paste into a Custom HTML block.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-small-font-size\"><code>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Analyst Firm Validates B2 Cloud Storage Platform\u2019s Time and Budget Savings&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/analyst-firm-validates-b2-cloud-storage-platforms-time-and-budget-savings\/\"&gt;&lt;img src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ESG-Infographic-scaled.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Economic Value of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage\" title=\"The Economic Value of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage\" \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings cut through the marketing noise to announce that by choosing Backblaze B2, customers benefit in both time and cost savings, and you don\u2019t have to take it from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that sounds like something you\u2019d appreciate from a cloud partner, getting started couldn\u2019t be easier. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/sign-up.html?referrer=nopref\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up today to begin using Backblaze B2<\/a>\u2014your first 10GB are free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re already a B2 Cloud Storage customer\u2014first, thank you! You can feel even more confident in your choice to work with Backblaze. Have a colleague or contact who you think would benefit from working with Backblaze, too? Feel free to share the report with your network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the key findings from Enterprise Strategy Group&#8217;s Economic Validation report on the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":103162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-103145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-storage","tag-b2cloud","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Analyst Firm Validates B2 Cloud Storage Platform\u2019s Time and Budget Savings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Enterprise Strategy Group recently undertook an economic validation analysis of Backblaze. 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