We stumbled upon an interesting article that was written earlier this year entitled the Hidden Cost of the Cloud which outlines the uplift in network bandwidth charges that could be incurred if you used a cloud platform, such as Microsoft’s Windows Azure, Amazon or Rackspace, to host your applications and/or data. Now we’re not making any value judgments around the author’s recommendation to “leave the cloud and buy your own bandwidth to the Internet –- you’ll probably save 50 percent of your monthly bandwidth charges”; however, we do know a thing or two about saving on the amount of network bandwidth that enterprises consume by deploying virtualized WAN optimization.

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