All I can say is that I am moving everything I can to cloud object storage from my Netapp because of 2 cents vs. $2 for GB of storage.
Also Netapp wouldn't be my third chios on the next purchase of storage
Where are you getting 2 cents ?
S3 is ~3 cents, glacier and nearline are 1 cents ... what are you buying that costs 2 cents ? (genuinely curious)
and I am starting to try out Google Cloud Storage, I think that they out preforms AWS
I don't get all this relationship between "cloud object storage" and the dawn of Netapp as stated in the storagemojo article. For me Netapp is, like said by KaiserPro, a multi-purpose system where I can do FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, with HA, snapshots etc., where I can host my VMs, my Windows files, my block-access disks for Databases etc.. It's not the place were I'd just put files that I'll serve via a S3-like API interface...