Cloud storage: Is It All About Cost?

So what is your take on cloud storage, and in what context?

Is cloud storage all about removing cost, cost cutting, free storage? Or perhaps even getting something else in addition to free storage?

You might ask: what type of cloud storage am I referring to? That’s a great question. After all, there are many types or categories of public cloud storage services, not to mention private and hybrid options. There are cloud storage services for consumers to save and share their photos, videos, music and other documents to. Then there is business and enterprise file, document, object and collaboration cloud storage options.

Let us not forget the cloud storage services that are used for backing up, copying, syncing, replicating or archiving data as part of a business continuance (BC), disaster recovery (DR), business resiliency (BR) data protection solution.

Yet another class of cloud storage (e.g. AWS EBS) are those intended or optimized to be accessed from within a cloud via cloud servers or compute instances (e.g. AWS EC2 among others) vs. those that are optimized for both inside the cloud as well as outside the cloud access (e.g. AWS S3 or Glacier). I am using AWS examples; however, you could use Microsoft Azure, Google, Rackspace, CenturyLink, Peak, HP, IBM Softlayer, Verizon and many others.

Continue reading about cloud storage beyond cost focus here.