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Hitachi Data Systems has developed Storage I.T. Economics, a

strategic framework for cost-reducing storage investments. Since

2001, many midsize and large I.T. centers have used this

framework to achieve an economically superior way of deployingand growing their storage.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY

Use cost reduction asA MEASUREMENT FOR

STORAGEimprovement. Remember,YOU CAN'T

IMPROVE WHAT YOU CANT MEASURE.

Align I.T. technical andoperational investment

ideas to business benefitsand cost improvements.

Apply metrics toeverything: to asingle storage

system, a particulartier of storage, thebackup-and-restoreprocess, and disasterprotection costs.

Make econometrics part ofyour I.T. strategies and budgets.

Develop managementdashboards to measurewhat youve spent over thelifetime of your assets.

Here are a few of them:

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Nov Oct Dec

Dollars

Assets

55%

65%

40%

60%

75%

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10

20

30

40

50

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DataJa n F eb Ma r A p r M ay Ju n J ul Au g S ep No v O ct D ec

Dollars

Assets

55%

65%

40%

60%

75%

PRICE DOES NOT EQUAL COST.These architectures may not be the cheapest

to buy,BUT THEY ARE CHEAPER TOOWN OVER TIME.Understand andchoose the best ones for your environment.

CHOOSE ECONOMICALLY SUPERIOR

STORAGE ARCHITECTURES

Key ingredients:

VirtualizationDynamically

tiered storage

Different disk types

within the same

storage system

Thin provisioning

Unified storage

Integrated

archive

Capacity

on demand

Policy-based

storage provisioning

Power-down

disk, MAID

Deduplication,

data compression

depreciation

2 purchase or depreciation

3. Hardware maintenance

4. Software maintenance

5. Storage management labor6. Backup and disaster recovery labor

7. Migration, remastering

8. Data mobility

9. Power consumption and

10. Monitoring

11. Data center floor space

12. Provisioning time

For the full, extended list, download the Four

Principles for Reducing Your TCO white paper.

KNOW ALL 34 KINDS OF MONEY

Here are a few of them:

As many as 34 DIFFERENT TYPES OF COSTScan be used to create a baseline FOR TOTALCOSTof ownership per terabyte.

cooling

Hardware

Software

THE REAL COSTSof storage infrastructure

ARE NOT ACQUISITION BUT OPEXrecurring costs that managers must identify and reduce.

OUR STORAGE I.T. ECONOMICS

METHODOLOGY GIVES YOU THETOOLS TO DO THAT.

DO YOU KNOW YOUR

THE KEYis to start MEASURING I.T.INFRASTRUCTUREwith a TCO baseline.

TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP?

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