A No-Brainer Cost Model for Moving File Storage to the Cloud

Legacy file infrastructure involves a lot of moving pieces that incur (and sometimes hide) a number of capital and operational costs. Enterprises can reduce or eliminate these costs by shifting to cloud-based file storage. When developing a cost analysis for such a migration, it’s important to account for all costs — both hard and soft — to be sure you’re making an apples-to-apples comparison. Unfortunately, this comparison is not as simple as comparing TB costs for on-premises file storage to TB costs for cloud file storage.