Quantify Benefits Expected Via Improvements
 
To embark upon a data management paradigm shift the expected benefits should be clearly understood. Some benefits like capital expenditure and operating expense savings are easily quantified. However, other benefits like improved file system performance and reduced piracy risks are more intangible.
 

Actual Customer Example of Unproductive Storage Consumption
As the result of the file system baseline analysis, it was determined that 36% of the files on the data production line should not be consuming valuable resources, thereby unnecessarily increasing costs and reducing overall file system capacity for the company.
 
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Considering the environment comprised in the neighborhood of 150 Terabytes of storage, 36% or 54 Terabytes could be reclaimed and used. This amounts to real capital expenditure savings or expenditure avoidance.