Storage Solutions: Storage Consolidation
According to the Gartner Group, enterprise open systems storage requirements are doubling annually.
With such explosive growth, enterprises cannot afford to have poor capacity utilization of deployed storage assets. However, numerous studies show that of the storage capacity deployed, an average of 40% of this storage is utilized, leaving more than 60% of storage assets unused. While this issue alone is not alarming, the fact that most enterprises do not have the tools to measure this utilization, and therefore continue to purchase more storage without warrant, is cause for concern.
We operate significant amounts of storage on behalf of our customers and we have first hand experience with the practice of consolidation and achievement of maximum storage efficiency.
Through consolidation you can reduce expenditures and achieve higher utilization of storage assets. Our solutions have saved companies millions of dollars a year through storage consolidation projects. Generally these projects begin with professional assessment using sophisticated tools to collect information about storage utilization, file aging, and data base efficiencies.
With this gathered information, detailed reports are produced that help identify the efficiencies and inefficiencies in the storage environment, including storage hogs and underutilized assets. From here it becomes easy to identify the next steps in consolidation and utilization improvement.