The greatest savings potential is the introduction of TIER storage/memory classes.
Different requirements need different approaches.
In the past, companies either managed to do without any storage system in the IT or decided on a high-end storage system. Driven by the big storage manufacturers (with fear of total data loss) completely oversized systems were sold and installed.
Fiberworks recommends data classification. In the first step, our experts discuss the impact on existing business models. This helps quickly separate the wheat from the chaff, making it clear that fast growing file servers should be considered a different storage class than a SAP system, for example.
However, all data in the SAM is often stored on expensive FiberChannel drives 4X mirrored with high redundant backup.
Assuming an average data growth of 50-80% per year would mean very good news for storage manufacturers and unnecessarily burdens on any IT budget.
Based on your business model and any existing infrastructure, our experts will develop optimized approaches, which can generally be mapped to 3 to 5 tier levels.
The price difference between a high-end storage (TIER 1) and TIER 5 can easily be a factor 1:10!!!. 80% of the data is predominantly to be incorporated in lower TIER classes. An enormous savings potential exists.
Interested? – Contact us – Fiberworks is manufacturer independent and has unrivaled knowledge and experience in the area of planning, implementation and operation of complex data centers. We would be happy to offer you performance/profit based consultancy services. If you are not fully satisfied with our consultancy services, then you do not have to pay us!