About The Cloud Storage Guide
The Cloud Storage Guide was created to give an overview of the most popular and most widely used cloud storage platforms for businesses, highlight their strengths and weaknesses, and provide comparisons and insights into using each platform to help you decide which is best for your specific use cases. It also gives tips on how to reduce headaches and implementation time when adopting a new storage platform.
With many organizations moving data into the cloud, choosing the right platform and making use of all the benefits is a challenge. Evaluating platforms and figuring out how to get them in a usable form is complicated, especially when trying to find drawbacks or complications for a specific platform. Platform websites do a decent job of explaining the benefits; determining the weaknesses and limitations is significantly more difficult.
The Cloud Storage Guide aims to be a single resource that collects these issues along with the benefits and provides tips on how to get started quickly and use storage platforms to their maximum potential.
Created by the team at movebot.io
Movebot is a data migration tool that businesses use to migrate data between clouds, from on-prem to cloud and vice versa, and between cloud tenancies. Because Movebot is cloud-agnostic and supports the most cloud platforms, the team is uniquely positioned to understand the complexities and nuances of different cloud storage platforms, especially information that's not readily available.
The idea for The Cloud Storage Guide was sparked after troubleshooting with thousands of customers about issues with their storage configuration and implementation, and their frustrations of not having anywhere to explain the complexity, quirks, and limitations of the storage platforms they were working with.
A single resource that highlighted these concerns in an objective manner would be invaluable, both for migrating clients and users simply wishing to learn about the differences between storage platforms, and so The Cloud Storage Guide was born.
Values, purpose, and data sourcing
While created by the team at Movebot, The Cloud Storage Guide is intended as a separate information resource that is platform agnostic and objective, accurate and verifiable, and community-sourced.
Platform Agnostic and Objective
The Cloud Storage Guide is not sponsored by any particular storage platform, so won't try to persuade users by claiming that one platform is always better than another. Instead, we take an objective approach to plainly state the benefits and drawbacks, and from there, suggest what kinds of organizations or use cases we believe are best-suited to a specific platform based on our experiences and interactions with users.
Accurate and verifiable
Information in The Cloud Storage Guide is verified whenever possible, ideally from a primary source such as provider documentation. However, this is not always possible in all situations, such as getting information from company sales reps about timeframes for upgrades when exceeding storage limitations.
Because multiple storage platforms are evaluated in this guide--and sprawling documentation can have conflicting information--some content may become outdated as platforms evolve. If you find this to be the case or have more recent insight, please get in touch so we can update the information on the appropriate pages.
Community-sourced
While our goal is be provide the most comprehensive, informative source on cloud storage platforms, there is too much information and too much nuance for us to create the resource on our own, even with our experience.
As a result, you may find that some pages have different contributors based on their own personal experiences and/or expertise. Information on these pages require a verifiable source before being added to the guide.
These external contributions may be linked back to the author when requested, or provided anonymously.
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To contribute to the cloud storage guide, please see our Contribute page.
If you notice any errors or have suggestions for pages, reach out to us on our Contact page.
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