9 Storage Investment Analysis
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The document discusses Mainline's Storage Investment Analysis service which calculates the total cost of ownership (TCO) and loaded cost per terabyte of a company's storage infrastructure. The service delivers a presentation of the results, a TCO and ROI calculator, and optionally provides a cost breakdown per storage service class. It helps clients improve infrastructure utilization and identify projects that do not achieve a return on investment. Mainline can also incorporate the analysis into a larger storage assessment to further enhance results.
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- 1. www.mainline.com | 866.490.MAIN(6246) STORAGE INVESTMENT ANALYSIS What are your loaded per-TB costs? Mainline Information Systems | Storage and Data Services Practice Are you cost aware? Knowing what your loaded (hardware, software, staffing and facilities) unit cost is and the detail beneath that unit cost is a key method for improving your environment, whether you are evaluating new technologies or consulting services. Even when you evaluate internal projects, it is beneficial to know how that project will impact your TCO and what is the anticipated ROI. Not all projects will have an ROI if the goal is to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Cost awareness will help you identify projects that dont achieve ROI despite claims to the contrary. Many people do not recognize the TCO per unit until storage becomes the largest percentage of the IT budget and continues to growing. Deliverables include Presentation of the Storage Investment Analysis results TCO and ROI calculator with your detailed results Optional: If Service Catalog/Application Landscaping is included, then each service class will include a cost-per-TB breakdown of staffing, hardware, software, etc., for each service class within the service catalog Service Features Ownership of the TCO and loaded cost-per-unit process calculation Facilitated with a business consultant and a storage expert Easily bolted on to a larger initiative to enhance the results Service Benefits Cost awareness in support of a self-aware service delivery organization Basis for driving good behavior in utilization of infrastructure Do your accounting practices motivate good behavior in the use of IT services? Storage and backup infrastructure is a cost center, and a subset of applications represent profit centers Storage Investment Analysis enables motivating concepts like showbacks and chargebacks. With this structure, departments using storage and backup infrastructure are informed about cost or billed to account for cost. Of course, showbacks are not a motivator without the underlying accounting, and chargebacks drive budgets. Now budgeting shifts to the internal consumers, and all the IT stakeholders are aligned to use IT for what they need. This support model focuses on reducing costs and improving effectiveness and efficiency. This is consistent with defining strategy, identifying gaps, landscaping applications and building service catalogs all focused on building an infrastructure as a service (IAAS). While achieving cost awareness is not mandatory to make initial gains, it is a requirement to sustain those maximized gains over time. Look to Mainline to be your guide in your journey toward cost awareness. Let us help you build your TCO and loaded cost per TB. We can help define TCO of future architectures with the addition of our Data Storage and Protection Architecture and Design service, and define your loaded cost per TB per service class with the addition of our Service Catalog and Design service.
- 2. www.mainline.com | 866.490.MAIN(6246) Mainlines Storage Assessment methodology consists of ten service areas that can be delivered as a whole to exploit the inherent synergy, or they can be delivered as stand- alone services, depending upon where you are in the storage transformation journey. Storage Investment Analysis provides additional value when delivered with the following services within the methodology... Enterprise Storage Assessment with a defined storage strategy reduces up-front data gathering and time spent defining a target environment and provides excellent content in the prioritization of identified gaps. Also see service components synergistic with Enterprise Storage Assessment. Infrastructure Application Landscaping is for most is a missing part of the storage strategy - to work closely with application teams to specifically address their wants and needs. Infrastructure Data Analysis provides an objective measure of the needs of applications through the analysis of metadata, offering a starting point for application landscaping. Storage Investment Analysis is part of Mainlines larger storage assessment methodology Mainline Information Systems | Storage and Data Services Practice EXPERTISE YOU CAN TRUST Eighty-five storage experts skilled in storage solutions from every major vendor Decades of industry expertise in designing, implementing and optimizing storage solutions for environments of all sizes Services covering product implementations, complex data migrations, information lifecycle management, storage assessments, and advanced archiving and protection strategies Residencies and managed storage services to improve storage operations and reduce operating cost Next Steps: Contact your Account Executive, or you can reach us at StorageServices@mainline.com. For more information on our storage services, go to http://mainline.com/storage-transformation. 10110100 10010001 STORAGE STRATEGY WORKSHOP A facilitated and managed approach to defining infrastructure strategy. INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATION LANDSCAPING Facilitate infrastructure and application teams working together to build a score card, score application requirements and agree on the future onboarding process. ENTERPRISE STORAGE ASSESSMENT Define current and target data storage and protection environment, identify the gaps, and provide an actionable roadmap of recommendations. The core of any storage assessment. DATA STORAGE AND PROTECTION ARCHITECTURE DESIGN Define and illustrate both your current and future environment, including both logical and physical diagram modeling growth over 12, 24 and 36 months by data center. STORAGE INVESTMENT ANALYSIS Define and enable a loaded unit cost of storage supporting showbacks/chargebacks through the development of TCO, ROI and CBA. SERVICE READINESS ASSESSMENT Use Mainlines scoring tool to establish a service delivery baseline and compare against your industry average. Use to measure improvement. SERVICE CATALOG DESIGN Organize your infrastructure services into a catalog of your choosing based on strategy, data requirements and agreements with application teams by service class, or build a starting point to update as you learn more. INFRASTRUCTURE DATA ANALYSIS Using an agentless, cloud-based Storage Resource Management tool, define valid and invalid data, recommend residency and retention policies, and classify application data/servers into service tiers. PROCESS ENGINEERING Document and detail ITIL-based process definitions within an IT-based process reference model, starting with storage and backup processes and building an operational guide delivering auditable, repeatable one-way-to-implement infrastructure. INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSITION PLANNING For any large transformation or migration project, define a project plan to be delivered by your team, a third party, Mainline or some combination.