SAN Total Cost of Ownership Study

Understanding the cost of ownership is fundamental to the design and management of a storage infrastructure that optimizes business efficiency and maximizes business value. Many of the latest storage technologies and software tools have been designed to reduce the total cost of ownership and it is therefore essential that the organisation understands their current state.

The Tectrade SAN Total Cost of Ownership Study will:

Discover

• Current burdened cost of the SAN environment
• Current key performance measurements for SAN operations

Recommend

• Improvements to existing SAN environment
• Alternative strategies to reduce costs and improve service levels

Key Stages of the Study
Define the full cost to run the current SAN environment, including:

• Hardware
• Software
• Ongoing maintenance
• Staffing
• Power and cooling
• Footprint

Business Value

• Quantify the current total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Identify areas where SAN costs can be reduced
• Improve service levels
• Increase availability, capability and scalability