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Systematic Capacity Planning White Paper

Storage Horizon Overview
While it’s a best practice for large IT organizations to have capacity management processes in place for service levels and to control costs for networks and servers, such a dedicated, systematic process has been sorely missing for one of the fastest growing components of the IT infrastructure – storage. Even though the unit price of storage continues to decline 25 percent annually, exponential growth of storage consumption by applications, compliance requirements and data-protection strategies are driving storage demand to increase by 50 percent or more per year. This has resulted in 10-15 percent annual increases in storage expenditures. As is probably the case in your company, storage expenses are growing faster than the IT budget and have become a financial burden that can delay the rollout of major company initiatives.

So, the problem isn’t paying too much for storage. The real problem is paying for too much storage, too soon and too often. Without a systematic storage capacity management process in place, it’s been nearly impossible to accurately determine your storage utilization and subsequently your true storage needs. As a result, most storage administrators significantly overprovision storage to avoid shortages. Based on numerous petabytes of production data analyzed by MonoSphere, this has resulted in wasteful average storage utilization of 30 percent. Such poor utilization has created an enormous opportunity to achieve greater value from existing storage assets, while delivering extraordinary CapEx and OpEx savings year in and year out. In today’s Global 3000 companies, the savings can quickly reach tens of millions of dollars.

Creating such a huge financial impact is surprisingly simple with MonoSphere’s Storage Horizon storage capacity management software. Agent-less, easy to deploy and extremely cost-effective, MonoSphere’s Storage Horizon automates your storage capacity management processes by providing an unprecedented, unified view of current and projected storage capacity usage. These processes provide:

With the Storage Horizon, customers have dramatically increased their storage utilization by:

Identifying and re-directing dark storage – Identify and re-direct dark storage to areas of need saves capital and significantly increases storage utilization. Allowing data to grow into existing storage safely – Focus future storage provisioning and purchases only for required areas.  Over-provisioned areas will increase utilization as more and more data gets written to them. Reclaiming over-provisioned storage – Depending on the data growth rate of over-provisioned areas, it may be worthwhile to re-claim storage from over-provisioned areas if the size of the re-claimed storage is large enough – many times re-capturing TBs or more.

As the centerpiece of a systematic capacity management process, Storage Horizon software provides a platform on which your organization can develop well-understood and repeatable “best-in-class” processes for managing, analyzing and planning for storage capacity growth and utilization. Adding even more value, the sophisticated, smart and intuitive GUI helps speed your time to actionable answers and reduces administrative time and effort.

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