Effective Methods of Reducing Storage Costs
Data Centre Storage Economics
Although storage has become an essential infrastructure element within the data centre, many organisations are struggling to justify the cost of increasing storage requirements. Shoden Data Systems offers clients a unique insight into how storage can be viewed as an investment, rather than an ever increasing direct cost.
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Storage is seen as having a poor ROI mainly due to the massive data explosion which organisations have experienced. The focus has been primarily on creating capacity, with less effort spent on providing an architecture which addresses growth and ease of management in the most cost effective manner.
There are many costs which contribute to providing and managing a storage environment, of which most clients determine based on the acquisition costs of purchasing new storage based on a cost per megabyte, upgrading and maintenance costs of the storage hardware and software and the human capacity to operate and manage the environment.
Although these costs are still relevant as part of any purchasing decision, Shoden Data Systems argues that to fully address storage costs, clients need to understand the cost of storage over the term of the investment.
Through analysing and modelling a client’s environment, Shoden Data Systems provides a real view of the costs associated in operating and managing their storage environment for the duration of their storage investment.
The model will also offer a view of the financial benefits and the possible return on investment offered by adopting a Hitachi virtualisation and dynamic tiering solution.
Some other key benefits which the solution offers are:
- The ability to seamlessly migrate data between storage frames,
- Reclamation of 15 to 40% * of traditionally allocated data,
- Reduced storage costs by placing data on the correct tier
- Single pane of management for all tiers
*this is dependent on the type of operating system in use.
