Trends Report

Embrace Cloud Economics For On-Premises Enterprise Storage

October 16th, 2018
With contributors:
Glenn O'Donnell , Amanda Lipson , Jenny Thai , Rachel Birrell

Summary

Public cloud storage isn’t a panacea, considering enterprise concerns about privacy, governance, availability, and unpredictable costs, but the basic opex cost model is attractive. Enterprises are increasingly demanding on-premises consumption-based pricing from both legacy and new vendors as part of new procurements. To help infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros get the most benefit from consumption-based storage, this report reviews the basic concepts and variations of this economic model, which intentionally mimics cloud pricing.

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