Third-Party Cloud Service: What’s the Reality?

Posted on September 12, 2024 by mike

 

Cloud Dreams
Cloud Storage Dreams as pitched by the Marketing Department 

Recently, I was in suburban Dallas talking over lunch with an old customer who has both on-premises and cloud-based storage. He painted a picture of how his Cloud / COLO salesperson sold the data center and services to him. The prices were affordable, their engineers and services were great, and the facility was just amazing. It sounded like paradise.The reality was somewhat different. The expected time and cost savings evaporated as a result of unexpected compatibility issues, service and support problems and incomprehensible billing.

Old MacDonald's Server Farm
Old MacDonald’s Server Farm:
With a quack- quack here and a pigsty there, E I E I OMG!

Of course, it wasn’t as extreme as Old MacDonald’s Server Farm shown above, but it was bad enough that he now planned to slowly migrate most of his infrastructure back to his facilities, only keeping things like email with a cloud service provider. He still needed a remote data center for back up and DR, and wanted to talk to our engineering team about a plan to bring things back on-premise and get control of his costs and QoS for his employees and customers.

There's no place like home!
On-Premise. You know exactly where your data is!

Every customer must evaluate their costs based on their own perceived risks and rewards. Zerowait engineers can help your team build in the reliability and predictability needed to provide long-term benefits to any organization. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in discussing, please give us a call at +1 302-996-9408 or email us at sales@zerowait.com.

 

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