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   by hjhffyuu57 3y ago

   It's a fair point, but here's a counter. Large software companies still hire their own accountants and lawyers and HR correct? And this is largely expected and understood to be a requirement. Why should IT be any different? Once y
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   by hjhffyuu57 3y ago

   Thanks this was helpful, somewhat in line with the numbers we've been throwing around.
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   by hjhffyuu57 3y ago

   Difficult to calculate that given lock-in. If you've outsourced everything infrastructure related, you aren't in the same market without substantial upfront investments being made. Amazon/Google/Microsoft/IBM et al.
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   by hjhffyuu57 3y ago

   That makes sense and is a factor in our calculations, we store everything at least twice (as in RAID + actual copies not including tape off-site results in ~ 2GB stored for every GB), with at least a third replicated to DR off site backup.
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   by hjhffyuu57 3y ago

   It would be interesting to see what the corresponding figures are like for on-prem, although they would be much more difficult to calculate and would vary wildly between companies. The only thing that really stood out to me was the Google s