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Rahim Amir

This company wants to help universities get around Microsoft 365's extra costs as it moves away from unlimited cloud storage

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  • Arcitecta's new Mediaflux Connect 365 allows universities using OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams to migrate to cheaper storage before Microsoft's pooled education limits hit their finances
  • Microsoft's current list price for storage capacity is $360,000 per petabyte yearly after its recent update eliminated its no-limit offering, and universities that tend to have large amounts of data could see themselves paying a lot more as a result
  • Moving a petabyte of data to a third party, however, can take up to 105 days thanks to Microsoft's enforced throughput cap

Arcitecta, the Melbourne-based data management firm behind the Mediaflux platform, has launched a tool aimed at universities staring down the end of free, effectively unlimited Microsoft 365 storage.

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