Open-source alternative  ·  Object Storage

Replace Azure Blob Storage with MinIO.

S3-compatible object storage with erasure coding, encryption, versioning, and lifecycle management. Runs on commodity hardware. No per-GB egress fees, no storage tier complexity.

You'd keep~R44 400 to ~R222 000/year

Current licence  ·  Object Storage

Azure Blob Storage

~R44 400 – ~R222 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Replace with  ·  Object Storage

MinIO

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R222 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Azure Blob Storage's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Hot (10 TB)

R44 400/yr

R3 700/month

Estimated monthly

With MinIO

Keep R44 400/yr

Hot (50 TB)

R222 000/yr

R18 500/month

Estimated monthly

With MinIO

Keep R222 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Azure Blob Storage grows around 10% per year on average. MinIO hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR98kR197kR295kR393kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R358kR22k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.58M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Azure Blob StorageMinIO, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other object storage migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.