![]() You have to know what you are going to do with your data to pick the right service because mistakes can get very expensive. Besides giving away functionality, there’s a bigger problem. ![]() If you don’t need immediate access to your files or don’t want data replication or eleven 9s of durability, there is a choice for you. The idea is that you can trade service capabilities for cost. Many cloud storage providers offer multiple levels of service. ![]() ![]() Tip # 2 - Don’t Choose the Wrong Service Level Make sure you consider the tiered pricing tables for data retrieval as well. When, in fact, you should do the following: For example, if you had 600 TB of storage, you could wrongly multiply as follows: The mistake sometimes made is calculating your entire storage cost based on the level for that amount of storage. You don’t get a retroactive discount - only the data above the minimum threshold enjoys the lower price. Those words mean there are tiers in the pricing table which, in this case, means you have to reach a specific level to get better pricing. The words “ Next” or “ Over” on a pricing table are never a good thing. Tip # 1 - Don’t Miscalculate Progressive (or is it Regressive?) Pricing Tiers The goal is to create a cloud storage forecast that you can rely on each and every month. Here are five tips you can use when doing your due diligence on the cloud storage vendors you are considering. They have good company, as according to ZDNet, 37% of IT executives found their cloud storage costs to be unpredictable. Yet, you probably know someone (you?) that was more than surprised when their cloud storage bill arrived. After all, there are only three cost dimensions: 1) storage (the rental for your slice of the cloud), 2) download (the fee to bring your data out of the cloud), and 3) transactions (charges for “stuff” you might do to your data inside the cloud). Predicting your cloud storage cost should be easy.
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