For several years now, Azure users have been able to drastically reduce the price of their virtual machines by purchasing reserved instances (RIs). Microsoft reduces Azure compute prices – up to 72%

I am happy to announce an improvement to HubStor’s consumption-based pricing model: We now exclude all storage operations and network egress costs from the HubStor markup calculation!

It’s no secret the cost of ownership model for on-premises storage is nothing like the way enterprise cloud storage pricing works.

This week, Microsoft announced a 26% price drop on Hot block blob storage, and an even more significant 38% lowering for Cool block blob storage.

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Cool Blob Storage in Azure. HubStor is pleased to announce immediate support for the new Cool Storage tier.

It’s commonly said that public cloud storage is cheap, but that its data transfer costs supposedly make it unsuitable for long-term cloud archiving.

Do you understand all the pieces of the puzzle pertaining to your in-house storage costs?  Raw versus usable?  Upfront versus all-in?