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Organizations are facing ever-increasing amounts of data and storage costs, particularly in the public cloud space. The ECS scale-out and geo-distributed architecture delivers an on-premises cloud platform that scales to exabytes of data with a Total Cost of Ownership that is significantly less than public cloud storage. ECS is a great solution because of its versatility, hyper-scalability, powerful features, and use of commodity hardware.