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“You mean each day? We can change the terms of our lease on a daily basis?”
Joni thinks that’s not possible. “OK, so how much does it cost? This can’t be cheap.”
“How about $10 per terabyte?”
Mateo’s puzzled at that. “What do you mean, $10 per terabyte?”
“I mean we can get 1 terabye of online storage for about $10 per month.” Toshio
grins as he says this.
“What?” Joni’s dumbfounded.
“Yeah, that’s it. We can get as much storage as we want, and our systems
automatically upload all incoming data from our drones. The net difference would be
that our average monthly storage costs would be at least 50 percent less than they
are now. And that’s not counting the power savings, the time saved doing backups, or
the fact that we wouldn’t have to configure any more new hardware.” Toshio isn’t quite
sure, but he thinks the actual storage costs could be less.
“Toshio, you’ve got to be kidding. We can save tens of thousands of dollars in
storage costs. This is huge.” As Joni says this, in the back of her mind she’s
thinking, “If it’s true.”
“Well, it’s good; I don’t know about huge. We’d have additional
development costs to set up our systems, and that will take some time.”
“Toshio, give me a plan. I want a plan.” Mateo’s thinking what these
savings could mean to their next two quarters … and beyond.
“I’ll give you something next week,” Toshio says.
“I want it by Friday, Toshio.”

“How about $10 per
terabyte?”
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STUdy QUeSTIonS

Q6-1 Why is the cloud the future for most organizations?
Q6-2 What network technology supports the cloud?
Q6-3 How does the cloud work?

Q6-4 How do organizations use the cloud?
Q6-5 How can Falcon Security use the cloud?
Q6-6 How can organizations use cloud services securely?
Q6-7 2026?
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