On 8/30/2016 11:40 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: > On 8/30/16 1:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> Amazon's services are often expensive compared to the cost of running >> those services in-house on bare metal -- but once you factor in the >> costs of leasing space and building out your own data center, they >> become reasonable. > Funny you should say that. I work with a storage vendor and while the > "cloud" on-demand model works great for compute, it falls down > completely for storage. A napkin-math calculation for 16TB allowed you > to buy a new small NAS system every two or three months. :) > > Michael
I'm curious. Did the back-o-the-napkin estimate include operational costs? Backups, backup verification, offsite storage and the cost of the connection (it may be a courier van or more bandwidth) to move the data offsite ... and restore in a reasonable amount of time? I haven't run the numbers ... but am reminded how often systems are purchased on a budgets which assume ops/maintenance will "just happen". Cheers, - Don _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
