Fact: It takes more than low-cost disk solutions to drive down the total cost of storage ownership.

Remember, the approach is to consider your options: You may find that you can incorporate existing "cheaper disk" into a tiered storage architecture. This could help reduce CAPEX and OPEX, while still delivering the levels of service that are required by the business applications that the specific "cheaper disk" will support.

We've done the research to help you arrive at your own best conclusions.
Hitachi Data Systems has developed a storage economics library of papers, methods, tools, and service offerings to help you reduce OPEX costs. You may want to begin researching your storage strategy with "Storage Economics: Identifying and Reducing Operating Expenses in the Storage Infrastructure" www.hds.com/tools/whitepapers.html.

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