Storage Economics

Build Economically Superior Storage Architectures

Our Storage Economics model reveals that over 4 years storage acquisition costs are just 20 to 33% of their total cost of ownership. That means you need to multiply your capital costs by up to 5 to truly understand of the cost of storage over its lifetime.

But the news is not all bad. There are technologies that can help you get maximum value from your previous storage investments. They reduce the need for future investment to grow at the same rate that your data grows. We call these economically superior storage architectures and their key ingredients include:

• Storage virtualization
• Thin provisioning
• Dynamically tiered storage
• Storage consolidation
• Data de-duplication
• Integrated archive

Hitachi has worked with more than 800 organizations worldwide to:

• Assess storage requirements from a business perspective
• Benchmark the true costs of existing storage infrastructure
• Identify key areas for cost reduction and a path to realize those savings
• Deliver technology solutions that are economically efficient and sustainable