Cloud storage Solutions
Companies and professionals are generating gigabytes of data during this data age. Significant number of company operations have fully digitized and every organization is generating and storing more data than in the last 10 years combined.
The demand for data storage is growing day in day out. Organizations have invested huge in hard drives and computing storage facilities.
Offline data storage have created new challenges to businesses – and of course new opportunities
Challenges of Offline Data Storage
Expensive initial cost of investment – purchase of hard drives, storage arrays, data backup software and data storage servers is way too expensive for an ordinary Small Organization
The cost of running and supporting unutilized capacities in the storage facilities is unnecessary cost for the business.
Breakdown or failure of storage servers and disks especially when not professionally managed + the cost of replacement after failure is not sustainable for small and medium size organizations.
Data Access is limited to the offline set up. Data storage cannot be remotely accessed.
Primitive backup storage technology lead to wastage of space – storing the same file in duplicate copies. Advanced storage software have helped solve this solution through incremental backup, one file copy per server.
Insecurity – most premises based or offline data storage store data in raw form, this exposes data and compromises data security.
Opportunities addressed by Cloud Storage Companies
Pay as you go model – allow small organizations to get started on cloud storage with zero initial investment costs. Organizations only pay for what the use only.
Advanced technology run by cloud storage service providers allow redundant storage of data cutting down chances of data loss even with system failure.
Cloud storage providers do not run unutilized capacities since they serve several clients and only expand capacity with demand – therefore the dead cost of unutilized capacity doesn’t affect the customers.
Cloud storage providers have best cloud storage management and administration system that can detect and sort fault early before disaster of complete disk failure.
Cloud storage provide remote data access through software applications, web portals, mobile applications, and APIs
Advance cloud storage technology with innovative storage technologies such deduplication, incremental backup allow minimal storage utilization thus lower cost of storage per gigabyte.
Cloud storage provides like Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, Cloudpap, are very secure, they encrypt data on transfer and storage therefore security of client data is guaranteed.
Cloud storage services are very cheap due to economies of scale and advancement of technology. See prices are unbelievably low.
| 50GB Storage in US$/month | 100GB Storage in US$/month | 1000GB Storage in US$/month | |
| Google Drive | 1.99 | 9.99 | |
| One Drive | 1.99 | 6 | |
| Cloudpap | 12 | 59.50 | |
| Box | 6 | ||
| Sync | 5 |
