Cloud Storage: 8 Ways You’re Wasting Money
December 4, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Kevin Casey.
There’s a litany of platforms and applications out there under the great "cloud" umbrella. Storage, one part of the broad category, epitomizes this trait of cloud computing as a whole: an almost overwhelming array of choices. The crowded storage field ranges from consumer champions like Dropbox, which have recently pushed to appeal to business customers, to tech titans such as Microsoft, which have long held sway with IT but are now trying to be all things to all people.
Microsoft alone offers a menu of backup and storage options across its OneDrive and Azure platforms. Choice isn’t the only hallmark of cloud storage. The category also typifies the twin prongs of many sales pitches for cloud as a whole: It’s cheap and it’s easy — especially relative to so-called legacy alternatives that require on-premises hardware, software licenses, and the manpower and expertise to manage it all…
Reduced capital expenditures (capex) — usually in the form of hardware and licensing costs — have been a fundamental of vendor sales pitches since "cloud" became of the buzz-iest of IT buzzwords…
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