but we're talking about cost reduction (TCO) and the argument holds: at scale, if you halve the cost-per-bit for storage, then the TCO should drop dramatically and very close to half. The argument isn't about indexing, security, auditing, or whether Hawaiian pizza is an abomination to humanity.
only if the cost-per-bit of storage made up the bulk of the variable costs of backup.
My point is that I don't think that holds. That cost is likely not trivial, but I think the other variable costs make up a large percentage of total costs of a backup (again - because data by itself on a drive in storage somewhere is useless - it's the ability to access and use that data that organizations are paying for)
but we're talking about cost reduction (TCO) and the argument holds: at scale, if you halve the cost-per-bit for storage, then the TCO should drop dramatically and very close to half. The argument isn't about indexing, security, auditing, or whether Hawaiian pizza is an abomination to humanity.