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> To backup 25GB of data with synchronous replication a business may easily pay from $150 to $500+ in storage and maintenance costs- and that's per employee.

Per year? Per month? Dollar numbers for maintenance, without a time period, have no meaning.

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Um. No, that's likely per month. I work for an online backup provider; the industry price is up to about $5 per gigabyte month. I don't know our price list, but I'm also comfortable saying that rate based on looking for an online backup provider myself.

I think Google meant per year here because Google apps product pricing is $50 per user per year which gives 25GB of space per user.

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