Storage Economics

STORAGE ECONOMICS

Build economically superior storage architectures & give your organisation competitive strength

Abtech UK partners with world leading Storage vendor, Hitachi Data Systems, whose 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 available 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

Abtech UK works together with Hitachi to provide for their clients:

• Assessment of 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

Top 3 Reasons to Economise Your Storage

• Save for a brighter future. During lean economic times, you can capitalise on your existing storage investments through increased utilisation and economically superior storage architectures.
• Maximize IT agility. Flexible, dynamic storage infrastructures increase utilisation and your ability to respond to changing business needs while ensuring IT service levels are met.
• Give sustainability the green light. Storage Economics can help you reduce power and cooling costs for a more sustainable IT infrastructure and a greener future.

Proven model. Real results.

Hitachi Data Systems have applied their storage economics methodology to more than 800 enterprises worldwide. They 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: labour, equipment, maintenance and downtime.

Through this process, we have uncovered several key challenges facing today’s storage and IT professionals:

• Acquisition costs account for just 20 to 33% of the total cost of storage – the remaining costs come from an additional 30+ contributors to storage TCO
• Up to 75% of an organisation’s current investment in storage is wasted, because just 25% of storage capacity is utilised
• Transferring data to “the next technology” will cost you around US$76,000 per terabyte

Click here to read the HDS EBook: 6 Essential Strategies for Economising your storage

What should you do now?

If you want to understand your existing storage infrastructure, it's capacity and current utilisation as well as a more in-depth look at the true costs involved, then give our Storage specialists a call today to have a free, no obligation chat about your needs.

We can offer;

• Expert advice and an unbiased opinion on current infrastructure capabilities and costs
• Knowledgeable and informed account managers who keep you abreast of all technological developments which might affect your organisation
• System design and optimal configuration support from initial enquiry/project start through to implementation and beyond
• On-going after-sales care and advice to help you scale your systems in-line with organisational needs - we're with you for the long term

Click here to view a success story from Abtech UK utilising HDS Storage Technologies

Call us on 0845 456 2393 or email us via our contact page for further information