august 25, 2011 file storage costs less in the …（2011年8月25日,文件存储成本少u2026）.pdf

August 25, 2011 File Storage Costs Less In The Cloud Than In-House by Andrew Reichman for Infrastructure Operations Professionals Making Leaders Successful Every Day For Infrastructure Operations Professionals August 25, 2011 File Storage Costs Less In The Cloud Than In-House We Calculate A 74% Cost Reduction, but It’s Hard To Compare Apples To Apples by Andrew Reichman with Robert Whiteley and Eric Chi Ex EC uTI v E Summ AR y There’s a great deal of hype surrounding cloud delivery models of all flavors, with the assumption that it will usher in a new era of cheaper, better IT. But most IO organizations struggle to compare the capital, operational, and staffing cost differences between internal and cloud storage. This document will break down the cost differences by modeling a common workload — file storage — built and deployed traditionally versus consumed through the public cloud. Our models reveal a significant cost difference, with the cloud-based model coming in 74% less expensive than IO running it in-house. However, we encourage IO leaders to use this document and the associated “Cost Analysis Tool: Cloud Versus Internal File Storage” Excel workbook as a tool and methodology for comparison. Customize the tool with numbers from your own environment and make a better decision as to whether cloud file storage makes sense in your business technology environment. TA b LE OF C O nTE nTS nOTES RESO u RCES 2 Cloud Storage Is Workload-Specific Forrester interviewed multiple vendor and user 3 Quick Storage Comparisons Don’t Measure companies, including Amazon, Ctera networks, Storage Costs Effectively F5 networks, nasuni, nirvanix, Riverbed