Save Costs
Protect the Environment
Digital Sovereignty
We provide reliable and effective Data Hygiene services to academic institutions, non-profits and public organizations.
What we do
Save money
Lower and predictable costs: Remove redundant backups and orphaned buckets, and simplify your data topology for easier management. Eliminate hidden egress fees, oversized storage charges, and surprise bills.
Pay for what you truly need—once.
What we do
Digital Sovereignty
Data sovereignty & ownership: Keep sensitive data under your policies and jurisdiction—no ambiguity about who can access or store your information.
Stronger security & compliance: Reduce exposure from broad cloud access, regain full control over encryption, retention, and audit trails to meet regulatory requirements.
How we make it happen (fast, safe, measurable)
- Audit & prioritize: We identify stale, duplicated, and sensitive data and rank what to keep, archive, or delete.
- Automated cleanup: Safe de-duplication, compression, and metadata normalization to shrink storage needs before migration.
- Secure migration: Encrypted transfers, validated integrity checks, and staged cutovers that eliminate downtime.
- Policy-first landing: We implement retention, access controls, and audit logging aligned to your compliance needs.
- Cost & impact report: Clear before/after metrics—cost savings, performance gains, and risk reduction you can show stakeholders.
The Payoff
- Typical clients cut storage-related spend by 30–60% within six months.
- Fewer security incidents and faster compliance audits.
- Faster queries and analytics pipelines—improving time-to-insight and team productivity.
Your Data. Your Capital.
Save costs
Save the environment
use case #1 / Amsterdam library
44% cost reduction
Out of the Cloud achieved a 44% cost saving in cloud storage for a special collection library in Amsterdam. The library hosts an ever growing number of digitalized old books. By thorough analysis of data usage, user behaviour and contract details, a new storage strategy was devised and implemented. The resource optimization resulted in almost halving the expenses of its service.
use case #2 / museum audio tour
Self hosting leads to improved visitor experience
A museum in The Netherlands hired a media company for hosting its audio tour. The offered professional services were beyond the needs of the client. By migrating to self hosting, Out of the Cloud was not only able to save costs for the museum, but also enriched the visitor experience with much more interactive and up-to-date content.
use case #3 / university
Ghost server removal
A "ghost server" (also called a zombie or idle server) is a server that is powered but not performing any useful work. At a university, such server was identified and after verification, it was decommissioned, reducing the institute´s carbon footprint.
use case #4 / local first aid
Digital sovereignty
A local first aid organization was facing a serious issue. Its website supplier, a creative & digital agency, revised their target market and decided to end the contract. Consultants of Out of the Cloud migrated the website and trained the first aid volunteers, preventing vendor lock-in.