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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I'm going through the process right now where cloud storage has come front and centre. We are looking at SAN and cloud storage options. For the cost of a couple decent SAN you can store a hell of a lot of documents in the cloud for 12.5 cents / GB. You only pay for what you need so you don't need to overbuy up front and you won't need to worry about it later either.
Issues that we are also considering are latency, costs to pull data from the cloud, bandwidth costs, file encryption/security and data seizure laws depending upon where the data is actually stored. Even things like where the gateway is located (my company is spread across 5 provinces).
The cloud is not magical and not everything will suddenly be better with it. But to ignore it is foolhardy as there are many practical applications where is can be a boon.
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Ideally for any storage solution, you will want onsite and offsite backup for quick data retrieval or restore in case of emergency. A detriment of cloud in that instance is speed of access to restore the backups for your data or entire infrastructure being dependent on your connection versus much faster local storage.
