Reduce Capital Expenditures
 
Many causes of storage expansion are unavoidable. Increased service demands, higher resolution images, etc. However, a significant amount of capacity growth results from avoidable factors such as underutilization of existing capacity, storing duplicate copies of existing files, and retaining files on the data production line that are no longer required. The capacity growth drives costs higher despite the declining cost of per-unit storage. Inefficient processes and lack of effective tools compound the challenges
 
A variety of costs contribute to the overall infrastructure costs required to actually store a Terabyte of data. The chart to the right illustrates some of the common cost categories. total cost of ownership category tco chart
A complete empirical file system analysis yields the amount of overall storage resource that is unproductive, this number can be applied to Total Cost of Ownership data to arrive at the total unnecessary expenditure. The table below illustrates the current industry ranges for the Total Cost of Ownership per Terabyte per year. The table is provided as a point of reference, the values can be overwritten / modified with a company's actual cost data to improve the accuracy of the model.
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total cost of ownership per terabyte
 
DataFrameworks can coordinate more efficient use of high performance, high cost, resources. It can motivate users to complete and offline project data, freeing up valuable resources for more revenue generating projects. A mechanism is required to provide visibility, cost, and trends of storage resource consumption. DataFrameworks provides this functionality out of the box.
 
Actual Customer Example of Costs Associated with Unnecessary Consumption
A complete file system analysis for an actual customer identified 36% of files were unnecessarily consuming storage resources. The following outlines a conservative estimate of the financial impact of unnecessary consumption:
  • 36% of 137 TB unnecessarily consumed = 49.32 TB
  • Most conservative total cost of ownership per terabyte per year $1,843.20 (Amazon S3 first 50TB)
  • Unnecessary costs based on tco per terabyte per year = $90,906.62 per year (49.32 TB * $1,843.20)
 
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