#egress fees

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That feeling when your cloud bill is 5x what you budgeted.

You know the feeling. Your app is a hit in Europe. You're celebrating.

Then the cloud bill arrives. Oof.

You're not being hacked. You're being penalized for your own success. It’s the public cloud's dirty secret called egress fees, and it’s a TCO nightmare.

We’re calling it: the metered cloud model is a trap.

We've been moving our clients to a smarter, fixed-cost model: a France dedicated server.

Why? Think about this:

✓ A predictable, fixed monthly bill. ✓ Zero. Egress. Fees. Ever. ✓ 100% of the CPU and RAM is yours.

We just wrote the full financial analysis, comparing the TCO of public cloud vs. a dedicated server for a high-traffic European operation.

Stop overpaying. See the math for yourself.

Read the full TCO analysis on the official COLO BIRD blog

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Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection - Actifio 10c

Latest @georgeacrump Note: Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection - Actifio 10c

Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). When storing the protected set, these vendors usually store data in a proprietary format, which reduces accessibility and…

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What is a Second-Generation Cloud Strategy?

Latest @georgeacrump Article: What is a Second-Generation Cloud Strategy?

Adoption of cloud services is following a trend similar to on-premises data center infrastructure. Many data centers begin using a single infrastructure vendor, compromising flexibility for the assumed simplicity of a single solution. As data centers evolve, they gravitate toward best of breed infrastructure, with multiple vendors’ infrastructure all working together based on standards.

In the…

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Live 19 Minute Webinar: Making Multi-Cloud Work

Register For The Upcoming Live 19 Minute Webinar: Making Multi-Cloud Work

Multi-Cloud seems to be the next big thing in the public cloud. With multi-cloud, an organization can move applications between cloud providers to take advantage of better pricing or better technology. While it is relatively easy to migrate an application between clouds, moving that application’s data can be a significant challenge. The organization is forced to either keep data in all clouds at…

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The State of Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: The State of Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud

Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud tend to be the direction that most organizations are heading with their cloud strategy. The problem is the path to both of these cloud strategies is full of unexpected twists and turns.

What is Hybrid-Cloud?

While these terms can and often are used interchangeably, there are some basic differences. The Hybrid-Cloud definition typically suggests that one of the…

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SlideShare: Implementing and Leveraging Multi-cloud and Second Generation Cloud Strategies

Latest SlideShare: Implementing and Leveraging Multi-cloud and Second Generation Cloud Strategies

Many businesses are eager to initiate a cloud migration strategy and take advantage of the economic benefits that clouds offer. However, concerns regarding vendor lock-in, proprietary technology, and hidden costs have served as a deterrent for a large number of IT managers. The answer for a growing number of businesses is a multi-cloud strategy where they can create a cloud solution that is…

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Overcoming the Data Problem with Multi-Cloud

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: Overcoming the Data Problem with Multi-Cloud

Multi-Cloud is a hot topic right now in IT circles. Instead of being locked into a single cloud, organizations can shift workloads between clouds as needed. Multi-cloud enables them to receive the best pricing possible on cloud services and resources. The multi-cloud strategy implies a free flow of information and a sense of cooperation between cloud providers. The problem is that while the…

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Looking for a Better Hybrid Cloud Strategy?

Latest @georgeacrump Note: Looking for a Better Hybrid Cloud Strategy?

When a company begins its cloud journey, they often assume they need to move everything to one of the “big 3” (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute). Many organizations want to maintain control of their data and leverage only the cloud computing resources from the big 3. Also, an organization may like the operational expenditure (OPEX) only business model of the cloud but prefer to keep…

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