IT analyst and validation firm ESG evaluated the overall costs of storage solutions, comparing the leading public cloud storage options with iTernity’s on-premises platform iCAS FS. The results may surprise IT leaders and challenge commonly accepted assumptions on public cloud storage.
The total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis is focused on five categories - cost of storage capacity, maintenance and support, power and cooling, cost of capital and storage administration - for a prototypical organization with a petabyte storage footprint.