{"id":3574,"date":"2012-09-11T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/sep\/11\/how-much-cloud-storage-do-you-really-need\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:47:26","slug":"how-much-cloud-storage-do-you-really-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-much-cloud-storage-do-you-really-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How much cloud storage do you really need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unlimited ability to store data in the cloud is something of a dream come true for organizations that previously struggled to meet capacity requirements and keep up with fast-growing data stores, but lately, some new questions have arisen: How much&nbsp;cloud storage&nbsp;space do you really need? What data should you keep, and what should you throw away?<\/p>\n<p>How can you evaluate your existing storage infrastructure to estimate your cloud storage needs? Answering&nbsp;these questions&nbsp;doesn&rsquo;t have to be complicated; you just have to ask yourself what your needs are and be honest about the answers.<\/p>\n<p>There are some basic cloud storage capacity planning questions that need to be answered. Rick Cook, a TechTarget writer,&nbsp;outlines&nbsp;the available capacity planning tools available and talks at length about how to best estimate your needs. He recommends asking five simple questions.<\/p>\n<p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>What data storage capacity planning tools do you have &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unlimited ability to store data in the cloud is something of a dream come true for organizations that previously struggled to meet capacity requirements and keep up with fast-growing data stores, but lately, some new questions have arisen: How much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}