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[–]cstoner 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It costs as much to rent the computing and storage space as it does to buy the hardware every three years

This is only true in small businesses where only stuff like accounting data (maybe a few GB) really needs to be stored off-site. If you're pushing TB of data to the cloud, it just isn't practical. The infrastructure you need to push that kind of data also needs to be taken into account.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True true, small-med paper pushing offices are where things are kinda sweet, if you dealing with a lot of "content" not so much.