True Cost of Moving to the Cloud

Debate erupts at CPA Trendlines Linkedin group.

By CPA Trendlines

One of our regular contributors, Hitendra R. Patil, COO of Pransform Inc. in Chicago, pointed out an article in a CPA Trendlines LinkedIn group post. He noted that Katrina Geety had posted “I was skeptical about a move to the cloud. What it cost our firm.” on The Workflow Exchange.

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She noted that a server crash hadn’t meant any loss of data, since that was backed up, but a new one, related upgrades, downtime and testing meant an unproductive week. “Had I hosted my applications instead, I would have paid $219 per month, a total of $3,723 for 17 months, instead of investing well over $30,000.”