The Storage Economist

If you look near the bottom of this blog page, on the right side you will see a collection of some of my white papers on storage economics. The first one listed is a short paper outlining the 33 different types of costs that we have documented and characterized over the past 6-7 years.

Great article from the UK, my compliments to our EMEA EVP Michael Vaeth.

After a long-absence from the HDS blogosphere, I’m eagerly back online to share ideas and success stories. During the past 18 months since my last entry, I have traveled no less than 225,000 miles, consulting, training and mostly observing what is going in global economies, local IT cost pressures as well as hearing the ‘common [...]

I have been working with several large clients the past month, and have seen again first hand the importance of making storage architecture changes that are consistent with where one is. I know that sounds like bad english…. and it probably is. IT planners and architects want to take advantage of new technologies to improve [...]

I attended a CSC Consulting conference this past week, and listened in on a forum on Virtualization, and the operational benefits of this approach with servers and storage. I was intrigued to hear the comparisons and differences between server virtualization (and hypervisor) and storage virtualization. Some of the talk went into how virtualization helps reduce [...]

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.

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 [...]

I have to apologize for allowing 4 weeks to pass between postings. My son was married last week, and between work trips to Mexico and Chicago over the past month, my time has been limited.

I have been a bit neglectful of writing about the 32 types of storage ownership costs. This entry is an extension on item #26 – Storage Performance as a cost of ownership.

A couple of years ago, I was consulting for a large Canadian Telco customer. They told me they were achieving 80TB-per-person for their storage infrastructure. I found this ratio impossible to believe. As we got deeper into the topic, I found that many of what I considered basic labor functions were not factored into that [...]