Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Do Sync & Share Files Belong on Public Clouds?

2014-10-June-Paper-Airplanes.jpgIt was only a matter of time.


With public cloud storage costs quickly heading toward zero, it may not make sense for some Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) providers to store customer files in their own data centers.


Last night news broke that EFSS provider Egnyte will now leverage Google Cloud Services to store client files.


It’s a move that didn’t shock Alan Pelz-Sharpe, a research director at the 451 Research.


“Many cloud service providers are finding out that low cost and free subscriptions are hard to upsell and the cloud storage costs alone can be a huge drag on the limited finances of a startup,” he said.


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Do Sync & Share Files Belong on Public Clouds?

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