>Why would they sell it directly? Works better if they can advertise their one of a kind, super stable, cloud specific data archival solution that nobody else c

>Why would they sell it directly? Works better if they can advertise their one of a kind, super stable, cloud specific data archival solution that nobody else can replicate. Because network speeds aren't high enough to back up terabytes of data remotely on a regular basis. This would only work if you already store all your data with this vendor, which is probably a stupid move.