I sat in on a Gartner webinar today that dispels this argument. The cost of energy for power and cooling is increasing as other costs decrease. Those who provide cloud computing services have to pay for the increased energy costs and will pass it along to their users. There is much more to it, of course, but the bottom line is that the cost of storage isn't the issue.  And, of course, we're all aware of the records management reasons this is not a good idea. 

Pat


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"Noveck also said that as storage becomes cheaper and cheaper, especially with the advent of cloud computing, worry about when and how to delete government records becomes less important, and she urged more work on data standardization and the use of data standards to avoid costly storage system upgrades as old data formats become obsolete." 

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