Perhaps the most interesting (though sort of irrelevant) part from a linked page on the site is that "cloud" storage is being sold as a one-time cost. A great deal (depending on price) if you ask me!
(I'm the author of the linked-to entry.)
One of my favorites remains when we were prototyping our next gen of servers for some compute next to quite a lot of disk. We had a prototype design, but we weren't done testing it, and someone needed a grant spent _now_, so they bought that design.
Unfortunately, that was the Dell R715/R815 family, which you may recall, had some...unique performance characteristics, so we didn't go with those for the final model, but had to deal with the support of them thereafter.