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I am absolutely blown away with the 100 PB for every customer... Meaning all together they must have somewhere in the exabyte to zettabyte range or are completely betting on the fact that no one will be able to/actually be willing fill this/their cloud. I guess I am just not used to the fact that on average most people have at least a 1 TB hard drive or hard drives that add up to 1 TB...

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> I am absolutely blown away with the 100 PB for every customer...

Its 100PB free for 1 month, if you commit to transfer in at least 1PB in the first three months, and commit to keep at least 1PB for 12 months (Its "up to 6 months" free of 100PB, but more than 1 month free requires greater than 1PB commitment.) At $0.01/GB/mo, 1PB of data for 11 months (12 months minus 1 month free) is a $110k commitment.

Its not "100PB for every customer", at least not free, its a variable size discount that covers up to 100PB for 1-6 months of a 12 month commitment period for customers able to make up-front commitments of $110k or more.

1. It's only free for "up to" 6 months, and a client that moved 100 PB is not wanting to migrate away after 6 months merely to play on the free temporary space (at $0.01 per GB per month, that's what a million bucks a month starting on the 7th month ? That's a great incentive to give it free as a starter)

2. It's only if you upload at least 1 PB of data in the first three month, which removes a lot of companies and only leaves the serious heavy data potential customers

It would be insanely easy to copy data over and over until you hit 100PB. This number still seems crazy

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