CASE STUDY
Millions Saved by Finding Hidden Storage Space
730
terabytes of orphaned storage discovered and re-used.
$500k
savings from planned storage purchases avoided.
$1.5M
total savings after a few months of using Visual One.
In Their Own Words
“Before Visual One Intelligence®, our challenge was the amount of time it took to identify inefficiencies. We simply didn’t have the technology in place to perform this analysis.”
-Enterprise IT Director,
Fortune 500 Airline
SCALE OF THE PROBLEM
30% or more of on-premises storage capacity is frequently wasted.
WASTE RISKS
Storage assets have a lifespan of 3-5 years, further compounding the financial impact of unaddressed storage waste.
POTENTIAL GAINS
Enterprise storage arrays can cost $100,000 – $500,000 each, making wasted space costly and more likely to force more purchases sooner in the future.
Opportunities for Savings Blocked by Infrastructure Invisibility
Faced with the need to reduce spending, a forward-looking airline infrastructure team needed to identify ways to get more value out of what they already had.
Without easy access to critical and reliable data, they were looking for assurance that their 100+ arrays were operating optimally and efficiently. They knew that they needed reliable and integrated data in order to make strategic infrastructure decisions.
Centralized Visibility Unlocks Savings Opportunities
The airline needed something that would serve as a single source of truth, consolidating all of their infrastructure data into one dashboard and reporting immediate details about data placement.
Visual One Intelligence® combines storage, compute, and cloud data into a single dashboard and reports at enterprise and device levels about how much space is used, unused, provisioned, hidden, and more. Placement details help IT teams right-size workloads, manage tier placements, re-allocate hidden free space, and more.
$1.5 Million Saved in Just a Few Months
Using Visual One Intelligence®, IT leaders at this airline discovered unclaimed storage and identified inefficient workload placement.
The hidden free space alone totaled over 730 TB of immediately available orphaned storage. The company had been paying $1.30 per GB, so simply identifying this one area of inefficiency resulted in the airline avoiding spending $1M on storage.
That wasn’t the only cost savings that the airline was able to reclaim. Visual One also pinpointed systems where storage user pools were overused, allowing workloads to be re-allocated resulting in avoided storage purchases – saving $500,000.
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