10 Reasons why Public Cloud is Not for Your Data Storage

GoogleDrive, OneDrive and Office365 outages are all reasons for the public cloud storage hype to calm down.  These disadvantages below are at the same time ten advantages of professional local network storage, Like NETGEAR's ReadyNAS.
 
-  Privacy concerns (remember those personal photos of celebrities leaking from iCloud or Dropbox). It's like putting a safe with all your money on the busiest road in town, someone will stop by and try to take it.

-  Bandwidth constraints – often no editing / working on data at local speeds possible, with the additional risk of outage
-  The obvious vendor lock-in
-  With perfect proof again end of 2015 with Microsoft OneDrive changing it's mind - pulling the plug on "unlimited storage"

- higher and unforeseeable cost as cloud vendors just may change Terms and Conditions over time and even baseline rates are quickly very high if you store more than a few GB. "Unlimited storage?" It is like a free lunch.
- You can only add storage capacity as per the cloud vendor's policy  – the customer has actually no control. With local network storage, you decide.
-  Limited cost models to choose from. Again, depends on the vendor. Some of them you cannot even talk to. With NETGEAR's ReadyNAS storage, you choose the cost model: work with your IT partner and decide to put this in capex or opex, keeping things  transparent, flexible and calculable. You choose your hardware expense, upgrade path, time to replace or expand, service level agreements. No surprises.
-  Flexible access to your data. Public cloud offerings come with no better access than local storage – with ReadyNAS you get the advantages of cloud from the ReadyCLOUD web-portal, from mobile devices, from PC or Mac via a tray app. But without all those disadvantages above, and without the risk of internet connection outage. The data is safe in your own location.
-  Complete location independence? Not a Public Cloud special although that is part of their sales pitch. You can actually edit and work on files on ReadyNAS seamlessly – regardless if you are local or remote thanks to the advanced sync and remote access functionality (check it out – access your remote files just as if they were locally in your Windows explorer). And when accessing data locally (like in the office where most people have their workplace), you get the bonus of blazing local LAN performance. You can also set up replication or automatically schedules backups between multiple sites.

- Extra data protection features - most are missing on public cloud, or they are services you have to purchase. For example, protection against accidental file removal or wrong edits. Or preventing your staffers from uploading malware-infected data. NETGEAR's ReadyNAS offers (free) point-in-time recovery with exclusive snapshot technology, block level replication, (free) real-time antivirus software, and (free) offsite replication to the cloud if you wish, or a second ReadyNAS - onsite or offsite.
-  Public Cloud does not offer the most secure access – but NETGEAR ReadyNAS does - it offers remote access that is enterprise grade VPN-based. As opposed to unsafe port-forwarding solutions with many NAS vendors, or known public login screens from public cloud vendors that can be hacked by 15 year old script kiddies.
-   Public Cloud can never reach the highest level of privacy – with ReadyNAS you OWN the hardware and you configure additional levels of privacy. To the extend of having a part not even connected to the internet. That is why we have many happy customers in the government-, medical-, military- and intelligence sectors across the world. CIA Director John Brennan addressed the hack of his cloud email account for the first time last Tuesday, calling it an "outrage" that shows the challenges that face the intelligence and national security communities in the modern age. He put a bit too much trust in the public cloud, instead he could have stored his data on a ReadyNAS. Our pricing starts under $300.
By the way, one of the candidates for the presidency of the USA does not trust the public cloud, she was already running her own email server years ago. Another thing you could use your ReadyNAS for!