I had an old stack of articles, destined for my airplane downtime/read-time. I came across a great article that I must have missed from last month’s Storage Magazine, this article is Power costs put the squeeze on storage. I recommend the read, even if you do not have TCO models that need to be updated.
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I started last summer writing about the 32 elements that make up storage TCO. After 8-9 months now, it is time to wrap this list up, and move on to discussions and topic of applying the 32 cost types to decisions and strategies.
Actually, I have blogged about the last 2 items, remastering and security in […]

People have been reading my blog, or have heard me speak somewhere and often ask about the ‘money’ involved with Thin Provisioning or the order of events and the relationship to cost reductions. I have concluded that there is not a separation of the Storage Costs and the Cost Reduction Events. This is an easy […]

Of the 32 types of storage ownership costs, number 30 is probably the most discussed, and has the most effort extended toward this cost category. #30 is the cost of risk associated with a catastrophic outage or disaster.
Describing this storage TCO element is easy: Companies that do not have a disaster recovery or business continuity […]

We are getting near to the end of defining the 32 types of costs associated with storage ownership (TCO). I am sorry describing these 32 has taken so long in this blog approach, please feel free to download papers and other materials from my blog library area if you cannot wait for me to finish […]

This is item #28 of the 32 types of storage ownership costs. This single category generate more discussion than almost any other items in the list of 32.
The basic premise is that high rates of waste (white space, unallocated, allocated but not used) represents an opportunity cost to the IT department, since capacity was purchased […]

Happy New Years. I realize my colleagues in Asia still have a few weeks until that phrase is meaningful, nevertheless we hope for the best in this new year.
Continuing on with storage economics and the total cost of ownership for storage. We have discussed 25 of the 32 cost categories in previous blog entries, these […]

The storage infrastructure is more than the spinning disk or tape, there is a lot of network investment to make it all work. These next 2 categories of storage TCO are related to the storage network.
Cost # 24 - Local SAN Infrastructure - Do not infer from the acronym SAN that this is just the […]

This is item #23 of 32, the categories that make up storage ownership costs. This next one is often deemed a soft cost, but how data is stored and made available to developers can be factored into the cost of storage ownership. The basic premise is that when developers are testing new apps, or creating […]

Forget the title here, these next two storage cost categories are not really related.
#21 Cost of Compliance - For many industries, the compliance laws dictate how data is stored and retained over time (several decades for some). There is a real cost of data life cycle management, remastering and moving data over the course of […]