Storage expense control

Controlling IT Expenses

Nowadays, the business environments become more and more complex. Because of this, cost reductions are forced in all organization. Beside the cost reduction requirement IT is required to deliver critical services, but the cost reduction does not assist it. After all, how we can solve this conflict of interest?

Dos and Donts

Price does not equal costs. In order to extend the existing storage infrastructure, purchasing additional and low-cost storage solution does not result reducing operation expenses in every case, so this strategy is risky. It means capital expense (CAPEX) in short-term and may produce negative long-term impact on OPEX, and after the infrastructural investment you will have not chance to improve the effect of this investment.

By Hitachi's solutions you can yield real operating expense (OPEX) savings regarding to the enterprise storage infrastructure. If your organization has storage growing in the several past years continuously, you can be sure that the consolidation and other storage/data deployment, reorganization and simplification of storage and data management can result you significant cost reduction.

Using only price per megabyte metric is simple but does not provide complete information for making decision, as it does not contain the operational, management and other incurring costs. Completing this simple metric with some others like energy consuption or possibility to physical accomodation may give a better result, but without considering the future costs the investment cannot fulfil the cost-reducing requirements.

Successful storage strategies require an evaluation of the performance and management needs of current storage platforms. Business objectives must be supported by tecnology strategies and objectives so managers try to find complete solution that can reduce ownership costs, while enable to improve the existing systems and sustainable in a long-term period.

If you face any of these challenges, and you would like to know where to start, contact us. Our experts understand the problem of storage expenses and can provide a wide range of solutions to answer them.