Fact: It takes more than low-cost disk solutions to drive down the total cost of storage ownership.
What's the storage planning trend that enables best practices and reduces costs?
It's no secret that organizations are looking at how best practices and the latest technologies might reduce their total cost of storage ownership.
Intelligent tiered storage is a best-practice-based approach to managing storage and meeting compliance requirements. Our resident experts in storage solutions are always eager to share the strategic thinking behind a tiered storage architecture game plan. They know it is critical to understand the capabilities of each solution instead of applying the proverbial "band-aid" to a problem that may reappear in the future accompanied by unnecessary expense.
How do you arrive at legitimate numbers to support your storage decisions?
You can lower storage-related operating expenses (OPEX) over three years with multitiered storage-by as much as 15 percent over the OPEX of a single-tiered architecture. According to David R. Merrill, author of Tiered Storage Economics: Defining and Calculating the Economic Benefit of Tiered Storage Solutions, to arrive at an accurate conclusion, it is essential to consider all cost-savings areas, along with "calculation methods, and proofs related to reducing labor, capital expense (CAPEX), waste, and infrastructure with a tiered storage architecture."
Merrill is quick to point out that "price alone does not equate to lowering operating expenses or reducing the total cost of ownership." In fact, he states that "trends observed by Hitachi Data Systems consultants and IT analysts... indicate that purchasing only cheaper disk solutions to reduce short-term capital expense can produce a negative long-term impact on operating expense."
No need to throw out what may have worked in the past. Look for its new place.
Tiered storage enables data and applications to be stored on tiers that vary in such aspects as performance, cost, availability, and recoverability. Multitiered, storage can be managed with a single image of integrated but segmented storage tiers via a single point of control. This allows data to be moved seamlessly through the tiers, optimizing support to business applications and end-users, even though multiple products and vendors may be included in the architecture.
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