Capital Expenditure (Capex) Savings Through Better Utilization
Capital Expenditure (Capex) Savings Through Better Utilization
VirtualWisdom® helps determine optimal use of SAN infrastructure and eliminate over-provisioning (and under provisioning). VirtualWisdom will find underutilized SAN resources, enable re-balancing, and help IT avoid buying additional storage or switch ports, and help determine when and how much future SAN capacity to acquire. Further, it can ensure IT uses the optimal class (tier) of storage and increase utilization of lower cost storage, based on actual measured performance. Finally, by helping reduce investments in SAN hardware, organizations will also spend less on management software licenses.
As an example, we typically find that storage port utilization can be increased by 50% or more. The industry average “all in” cost of a storage port– comprising a storage port, core switch port, and attendant cabling – is currently in the neighborhood of $4,000 per port. If we can help the customer eliminate having to buy an additional 32 ports ($128,000) for one business unit, the cost of deploying VirtualWisdom is easily justified.
Several Virtual Instruments customers have found that this level of objective, verifiable insight empowers them to deliver Tier I SLAs with less-costly Tier II storage devices. The cost benefits here can be very compelling. The price difference between Tier I and II storage can be on the order of $10,000 per terabyte. For example, this national grocery chain uses VirtualWisdom to help increase their use of tier II storage.
