Archiving Strategies (especially cloud vs. on-prem)

Hi, everyone,

My latest project is to evaluate options and create a long-term archive strategy for our digital assets. I'm wondering if any of you have done this and would like to glean some wisdom from you. 

Before evaluating specific products and solutions, my first task is to build the framework that we'll use for the evaluation. Big considerations are:

1. TCO of storing in the cloud vs on-premises, or maybe a hybrid approach

2. Re-use of digital assets

3. Security and integrity of data

I'm wondering if any of you who have been down this road could share the pros, cons, pitfalls, or good things of how you approached this, or of the solution you chose.

thanks much!

-- Bill Graver

Storage Engineer