Storage Innovators Scality, Coraid, Crossroads and WhipTail Scrutinize 200TB Amazon Cloud Storage Use Case The hard costs of storing data in a private cloud have long proved elusive to IT managers. On Thursday December 1st, a panel at the very first CloudBeat will examine different storage technologies as they relate to particular use cases - so that we might finally "Understand the True Cost of Storage." The panel's expert participants include Scality CEO, Jérôme Lecat who recently made the controversial, although research-backed claim that private cloud storage is cheaper than public for capacity over 100TB. The other panelists include executives from Coraid, Crossroads, and WhipTail Technologies. Representing venture capitalist investment of over US $100 million, these storage innovators will dissect…