If you are from an Academic laboratory, would you store your data in the cloud? Would you run your analysis on the cloud? Or do you prefer to store and run analysis on your own hardware?
Data storage in the cloud is expensive at around $100 per terabyte pe month. Plus you need to add the same amount for traffic.
It really only makes sense if the scale of the data is very large or very small.
I prefer to store and run on my own hardware, but mostly because I have access to good computing resources and sufficient storage. I use some cloud-services, like Dropbox but data is of course stored locally with that service, and on multiple locations. It is mostly used to sync analysis outputs and such between computers.
Right now it isn't worth the extra expense for me, and there are legal issues about storing most of my data elsewhere. Because my data is sequencing data from patients, it is against various privacy guidelines for me to have that data on servers outside of the country.
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