The Hidden Cost of Cloud Storage: What IT Leaders Wish They Knew Sooner
We surveyed over 400 IT decision makers and one thing stood out. Surprise charges affect almost everyone. Learn what’s driving them—and how to avoid them.
Cloud storage was meant to make data management simple and predictable. Instead, IT leaders are facing mounting complexity and surprise costs that undermine innovation.
In this exclusive research report, 400+ cloud decision makers share how hidden fees and limited flexibility are reshaping their cloud strategies—and what steps they’re taking to regain control.
Learn about the impacts of surprise cloud storage charges to organizations like yours and the steps that they have to take to mitigate those unwelcome surprises.
Companies and individuals represented included a mix of company sizes ranging from companies of less than 100 employees (2%) to companies of more than 20,000 employees (24%). Individuals represented by the survey included job levels from senior individual contributor (13%) to Executive, VP, or C-level (19%). More than half had responsibility for both technical and budget approval for cloud storage decision-making. Nearly 60% had 250TB - 1PB in public cloud storage. A majority (71%) used cloud storage for both application storage and backup use cases. Finally, BI or analytics use cases were the most common applications using cloud storage (60%), followed by digital or media asset management (58%) and AI or machine learning (57%).
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