More and more expensive data to store

Digital transformation, yes, but at what cost? Rising electricity costs and fears of potential power cuts this winter are beginning to worry users and some center operators. data storage.

Companies are called upon to massively migrate to the cloud. It is not only a question of keeping data in storage warehouses, but above all of using massively remote software services on remote servers, whether it is payroll management, accounting, invoicing, etc. Support functions and the core business are increasingly managed using cloud tools. A scheme supposed to generate savings, since the cost of services is directly proportional to the use made of them by the company, and no longer fixed, like the time of the purchase of licenses.

But cloud costs are likely to spiral. The first alarmist messages are beginning to emerge. At the end of August, Octave Klaba and Michel…