Is it time to curb your growing storage costs?
There’s never been a better time to review your storage investments.
Hitachi helps organizations assess the true costs of their storage infrastructure, including both capital and operating expenses, to identify opportunities for reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO) of storage.
Economize your storage.
Partner with Hitachi Data Systems to build a strategy that will help you transform your current storage infrastructure into an economically sustainable storage environment that is free from capital waste and under utilized technology assets.
Don’t just re-invest. Re-assess.
HDS' approach to storage economics helps demonstrate the true value of relatively complex storage architectures and allows ROI analysis to become a routine part of the storage investment decision-making process.
– Storage Economics:
Assessing the Real Cost of
Storage, IDC, December 2008
The past several years of IT procurement have left many IT organizations with underutilized and oversubscribed storage capacities. Now, with a squeeze on capital and credit, many organizations are forced to do more with less.
Understanding the true costs associated with your organization’s storage requirements is the first step to creating a lean, dynamic and cost-efficient storage environment that maximizes your existing storage assets and investments. Hitachi’s has worked with more than 600 organizations worldwide to:
- Assess their storage requirements from a business perspective,
- Benchmark the true costs of their existing storage infrastructure,
- Identify key areas for cost reduction and a path to realizing those savings, and
- Deliver technology solutions that are economically efficient and sustainable.
Enabling economically superior storage architectures.
Hitachi’s vast experience in applying its Storage Economics model to customer environments shows that storage acquisition costs equate to just 20-33% of the total cost of ownership of storage over 3 to 4 years. That means you need to multiply your capital costs by up to 5x to get a true understanding 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 and reduce the need for future investment to grow commensurate with data growth rates – we call these economically superior storage architectures.
Some of the key ingredients for economically superior architectures include:
- Storage virtualization
- Thin provisioning
- Dynamically tiered storage
- Storage consolidation
- Data deduplication
- Integrated archive
Why economize your storage with Hitachi?
- Save for a brighter future. During lean economic times, Hitachi is focused on ways to help customers maximize their existing storage investments through increased utilization and economically superior storage architectures.
- Maximize IT agility. A flexible, dynamic storage infrastructure dramatically increases utilization and the ability to respond to changing business needs, enabling you to maximize return on storage assets while ensuring IT service levels are met.
- Give sustainability the green light. Building a lean, green and eco-friendly storage infrastructure is paramount to reducing the environmental impact of IT. Storage Economics can help you to reduce power and cooling costs for a more sustainable IT infrastructure and a greener future.
Interested? Engage with Hitachi to discover how we can help to Economize your Storage.
Proven models. Real results.
Hitachi has brought its Storage Economics methodology to more than 600 enterprises worldwide. Through this process, we have uncovered several key challenges facing today’s storage and IT professionals:
- Acquisition cost accounts for just 20-33% of the total cost of storage – the remaining costs come from an additional 30+ contributors to storage TCO.
- Up to 75% of an organization’s current investment in storage is wasted, because just 25% of storage capacity is utilized.
- Transferring data to “the next technology” will cost you around US$76,000 per terabyte.
Achieving an economically sustainable storage environment.
See how real companies have identified their storage inefficiencies, then overcome them by implementing economically superior storage architectures.
Fidelity National Information Services achieved payback within months after deploying a virtualized, tiered storage architecture. Furthermore, the storage solution is projected to save FNIS more than US$27 million over three years. Learn more about the technologies and business factors that are driving this amazing return on investment. Download the case study.
The University of Utah Health Sciences Center responded to alarming storage growth rates by implementing a virtualized SAN infrastructure. Watch as director of IT and operations, Jim Livingston, discusses the financial benefits delivered by the new environment, including an amazing 127% ROI within 14 months. View the video.
A leading global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million savings by reducing physical storage 40 to 60 percent.
See more savings in this case study.
Join ESG’s Mark Peters as he discusses the economic value of virtualizing heterogeneous storage with Atos Origin CTO Marc Perrineau. Learn how Atos Origin has approached and implemented storage virtualization and the benefits it has delivered to the organization.
Overstock.com: Streamlining Data Migrations to Reduce Cost and Risk with Virtualized, Tiered StorageESG analyst Mark Peters interviews Overstock.com IT/storage leaders to uncover how virtualizing their multivendor storage environment has transformed their storage infrastructure and processes. Hear how leveraging tiered storage for data migrations has reduced risk and migration time in an environment where application downtime directly equates to lost revenue.
Information you need to reduce storage costs.
Learn how you can identify and reduce storage costs with these informational resources.
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In today's economic environment, IT managers must find ways to add efficiency to their data centers and to drive costs out of, and value into, their storage infrastructures. This white paper relies on ESG research to demonstrate this, showing users are focusing on storage strategies and priorities that promise to deliver a better ROI.
Your data center has hidden costs - Storage Economics can help you discover them and reduce them. Watch and listen to David Merrill, Chief Economist and Global Business Consultant at Hitachi Data Systems explains how you can get a handle on your storage costs.
This paper examines trends and empirical results gathered by Hitachi Data Systems consultants and IT analysts which indicate that providing multiple tiers of storage to meet enterprise IT demands can positively impact return on investment (ROI) and reduce in capital and operating expense.
Read the IDC report to discover a comprehensive financial model for analyzing storage TCO, developed by Hitachi Data Systems. This report outlines how companies can benchmark TCO and then introduce technologies and processes to drive improved ROI and TCO.
David Merrill, Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to reduce the cost of your storage architecture, and what the analysts are saying about storage economics.
In an era of explosive data growth and flat or diminishing budgets, organizations must evaluate potential technology purchases not only on their technical merits but on their economic merits as well. Storage virtualization, tiered storage and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software can all deliver significant economic benefits to the organization by helping to increase storage utilization and overall efficiency while reducing costs and complexity.
Noted industry analyst Tony Asaro interviews Hitachi Chief Storage Economist David Merrill regarding how this economic tumble is affecting the IT industry. View to learn how you can proactively navigate your organization through this downturn.
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