Storage Horizon
Benefits
Understanding why systematic storage capacity management is so critical
for reducing storage infrastructure costs is certainly a necessary
first step. But it only gets better when you discover the substantial
benefits of deploying MonoSphere’s Storage Horizon software as
the centerpiece of a systematic capacity management process. Featuring
automated, “best-in-class” processes for managing, analyzing
and planning for storage capacity growth, you can finally enjoy the
significant ROI that results from managing storage utilization versus
storage allocation. Unlike any other comparable solution, Storage Horizon
storage capacity management software delivers measurable benefits to
IT Management and storage teams.
FOR IT MANAGEMENT
Because CIOs and CFOs constantly look for major cost savings programs,
implementing storage capacity management has become the top storage priority
at many large firms. The diagram on the right shows a straightforward
example of how economically compelling this solution can be.
If a company has 1 PB of data and their storage is 40% utilized, it
would have purchased 2.5 PB of storage (1 PB / 40% = 2.5 PB). At
$20,000 per enterprise TB, 2.5 PB costs $50M. With energy costs
for power and cooling at about 12% of purchase price over a 3 year period,
that costs $6M over three years.
Using Storage Horizon, the company increases its utilization to 80%. They
would have only purchased 1.25 PB of storage and energy costs are halved,
saving $25M in CapEx and $3M in energy over 3 years.
For data centers looking to improve the management of their
storage capacity, the financial benefits of implementing Storage
Horizon far exceed the economic benefit of all other cost containment
projects in IT.
FOR STORAGE TEAMS
For storage teams, using the MonoSphere Storage Horizon storage capacity
management solution and “best-in-class” processes can restore
proactive, economically efficient control of the complex open system
storage infrastructure. By reducing the high rate of change and
the number of last-minute disruptions in the storage environment, administrators
can focus on higher leverage activities.
This solution enables the storage team to:
- Automate data collection and analysis for storage environment
reporting.
- Understand how you’re meeting corporate usage goals through
high level and detailed views of your storage environment.
- Calculate the storage costs of applications, business units, departments,
etc.
- Determine when additional provisions or purchases are required
by analyzing how storage is configured and used by hosts, VMware
servers, databases, and storage systems.
- Quickly locate the best available storage to provide hosts which
are configured to satisfy application requirements.
- Proactively identify when new provisions are necessary and locate
disks where new storage can be provisioned.
- Avoid emergency out-of-hours provisioning or purchases by receiving
early warning of potential out-of-storage problems.
- Develop clear,
accurate, and objective cost justification for future storage purchases.
1 Enterprise Strategy
Group, 2007.
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