CASE STUDY
$250 Thousand in Waste Prevented by Storage Efficiency Monitoring
1
major new application needing more free space than was available.
75%
wasted space hidden on a storage array.
$250k
budget savings thanks to avoiding a major storage asset purchase.
In Their Own Words
“With Visual One Intelligence®, we are able to place and manage storage more strategically. This allowed us to reduce our overall costs, improve our storage performance, and significantly lower the amount of time and effort required to do analysis and tracking.”
-IT Manager,
Large Auto Parts Retailer
SCALE OF THE PROBLEM
30% or more of on-premises storage capacity is frequently wasted due to over-provisioning and poor capacity management.
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.
New Application Needed – But There’s Not Enough Space!
A large auto parts retailer, relying on an infrastructure spread across seven data centers, needed to allocate storage for a new application.
Instead of buying a new array, they hoped there might be an alternative solution to the application requirements – as well as to their ongoing challenges with manual storage data collection and reporting.
Lost-and-Found Storage Space Saves the Day
Visual One Intelligence® integrates automated forecasting and analysis tools to provide storage efficiency monitoring – a series of reporting capabilities that identify wasted space and opportunities to reclaim storage space (and improve asset ROI).
For example, Visual One searches each device, pool, and volume for how much free space and “orphaned storage” there is in the enterprise infrastructure.
Orphaned storage looks like it is “in-use” because it is allocated, but it no longer serves any purpose. This adds to costs and reduces perceived available capacity – all while remaining hidden in most environments.
With just a couple of clicks in the Visual One Intelligence® dashboard, the hide-and-seek ends. Our detailed reporting quickly identifies which arrays have orphaned storage and how much of the array is orphaned. That way clients can spend their time on more important things, like re-allocating the storage for better use.
$250,000 Emergency Purchase AVOIDED
The customer was surprised by the insight quickly provided by Visual One Intelligence®. After a quick set-up (no additional tools or product installations required), they immediately found that 75% of a particular array was orphaned.
Six months before, the IT team had undergone an intense data migration project. This particular array had data from the migration that was no longer needed, but the LUNs nevertheless appeared allocated.
Excited about these findings, the IT manager was able to show how this free space could be used for the new application. The company did not have to buy new storage, saving themselves $250,000. And with unified visibility into all of their arrays regardless of manufacturer, their team saved time and felt more confident making decisions.
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