Gain significant economic benefits for your organization with flexible storage solutions from Hitachi Data Systems. Our Storage Economics methodology assesses the true costs of your storage infrastructure, including capital and operating expenses. Identify opportunities to reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) of storage. Choose helpful tips and strategies from the resources below:
“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.”
- IDC, December 2008
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The Storage Economics methodology benchmarks 33 elements of storage cost to
identify both CAPEX and OPEX savings.
When you need more storage, reach for your pool not your pocket.
Understanding the costs associated with your organization’s storage requirements is the first step to creating a lean, dynamic and cost-efficient storage environment. It will make the most of your existing storage assets and investments.
Hitachi has worked with more than 800 organizations worldwide to:
For more information, please read our E-book: 6 Essential Strategies for Economizing Your Storage.
Our deep experience with our Storage Economics model in customer environments 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 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. 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:
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We have applied our Storage Economics methodology to more than 800 enterprises worldwide. We know that total cost of ownership cannot be confused with purchase cost only. The true cost of owning enterprise storage capacity breaks into a small number of well-known categories: labor, equipment, maintenance and downtime.
Through this process, we have uncovered several key challenges facing today’s storage and IT professionals:
University of Utah projects
more than US$1.6 million in
savings over three years after implementing a three-tier
storage infrastructure.
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See how your peers in these real companies have identified their storage inefficiencies and then overcame them by establishing economically superior storage architectures.
Fidelity National Information Services: Calculating the ROI and Cost Savings of a Move to Tiered Storage
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.
University of Utah Health Sciences Center Storage Economics 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.
Global Financial Institution: A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets
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.
Atos Origin: The Economic Value of Virtualizing Heterogeneous Storage
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 Storage
ESG 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.
Learn how you can identify and reduce storage costs with these informational resources.
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Reducing Costs and Risks for Data Migrations
Best Practices and Recommended Storage System–based Data Migration Techniques.
Storage Economics with David Merrill
David Merrill, Chief Economist of Hitachi Data Systems describes the principles of storage economics, the 33 point calculation used to show you how make your storage infrastructure more efficient and increase your ROI.
The Business Value of Intelligent Tiered Storage
Mark Peters, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), discusses the economic benefits of Hitachi's Intelligent Tiered Storage capability for unified block and file data environments; and how organizations can decrease TCO and gain faster ROI business value using Hitachi storage solutions.
ESG: Hitachi’s Approaches for an Increasingly Cost-Conscious Data Storage World
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.
On-demand Webcast: Options and Strategies to Reduce Storage Ownership Costs
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.
White Paper: Defining and Calculating the Economic Benefits of Dynamic Tiered Storage Solutions
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.
IDC Executive Brief: Assessing the Real Cost of Storage
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.
Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage 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.
The Economic Effects of Virtualization, Tiered Storage and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Software White Paper
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.
Videocast: Addressing the Economic Challenge Q&A
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.
Containing storage costs has gone from an objective to an imperative. With the entire storage community seeking to reduce TCO, a robust online community of activists and resources has emerged. Now is the time to join the conversation.
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