{"id":9314,"date":"2014-03-20T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:43:56","slug":"just-cheap-can-public-cloud-computing-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/just-cheap-can-public-cloud-computing-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Cheap Can Public Cloud Computing Get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->ReadWrite\u2019s Matt Asay asks in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2014\/03\/14\/public-cloud-cheap?utm_medium=readwr.it-twitter&amp;awesm=readwr.it_c1I0&amp;utm_content=readwrite3-orionautotweet&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_source=t.co#awesm=~oyvCJ9mJTHC7Ny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> \u2013 close on the heels of Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/google-drive-storage-prices-slashed-now-starts-at-1-99-for-100gb-7000027310\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcing<\/a> that it was now pricing 100GB of storage at $1.99 a month. Makes you wonder who are the real customers for the data you are storing at so low a price.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/holy-mole-google-drive-triples-free-storage-nothing-in-life-is-free-folks\">predicted<\/a> this race to the bottom a while ago and it will only continue \u2013 there is no other way this can play out. And so does Asay.<\/p>\n<p>He asks just how low public cloud pricing can go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty darn low, if Bernard Golden&#8217;s analysis is correct,\u201d he writes. \u201cGolden looks at hardware and software infrastructure, Internet bandwidth, energy, labor and cost of capital and finds public cloud trumps data center in every category. That cost savings isn&#8217;t small, either:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the cost savings a cloud provider achieves by designing and directly procuring servers may only be 15%, the total cost savings available to a cloud provider summed across all six categories might be as much as 75%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His story is a practical guide to comparing data centers and storage. He sums up:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn sum, while public clouds are going to keep getting cheaper, &#8222;cheap&#8220; depends on your enterprise&#8217;s workloads and how prepared you are to use the cloud. The cloud can offer significant benefits in terms of improved business agility and lower costs, but only if you&#8217;re prepared to leverage it properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>We agree, but would argue he\u2019s missing something \u2013 privacy and security of your business data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:de-->As prices plunge \u2013 as we\u2019ve stated before, you have to wonder about the business model of these vendors. How safe \u2013 and more importantly private \u2013 is your sensitive data? Cost is very important, but so is controlling all that private (regulated?) data. By all means take advantage of cheap, easily deployed storage. But control what\u2019s important \u2013 possibly even critical \u2013 to your business.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And there&#8217;s something missing \u2013 privacy and security of your business data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[85,86],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cheap","tag-cloud-computing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}