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Reduce yourStorage Costsby 30%*

*Actual Savings Calculations from DataGlobal Customers


You don´t have to switch to save!

ERS – a view to savings in your existing environment


Customers


DataGlobal Enterprise Resource SuiteERS Savings by Storage Function

Hierarchical Storage Management 25-50% of total Storage Savings

Data Assessment 10% of total Storage Savings

Capacity Management 10-15% of total Storage Savings

Chargeback/Billing 20-25% of total Storage Savings

Service Level Agreements 5% of total Storage Savings

Operations 10-50% total Storage Savings


DataGlobal Enterprise Resource Suite

Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) – 25-50% of total Storage Savings

Balanced Data Storage –Your data always at appropriate level of storage

• Plan your storage to have balance between high cost, high access storage, low cost, slower access storage and archive storage

• Have well defined policies as to the criteria to migrate, archive and delete older files and less accessed files

• Automate migration and archiving polices to assure uniform and consistent enforcement of these policies



HSM – Migration



File Evaluation/Soft Quota – Save 10% on your file storage space

Providing Statistics on file usage and growth

• Set quotas for file usage to limit file growth

• Monitor and report usage patterns

• Allows user to see how data is being used

• Gives user information to decide on disposition of data


Assessment- Reports from a customer



Capacity Management – 10-15% of total Storage Savings

Save 10-15% of your Storage Costs

• Monitor your storage usage with high/low watermarks to check capacity limits

• Forecast long term storage trends to plan for additonal storage capacity

• Analyze storage usage to know which data to migrate to lower cost storage or to archive

• Buy to your needs and requirements, not overbuying or buying under pressure because of perceived shortage of storage capacity

• Avoid event driven purchases



HSM – Capacity Management

50% of Data is moved …


Customer Success

Problem: Continual service disruption due to lack of space

Solution: ERS management for five servers supporting 200TB

Result: Regaining 10% of their resource every 60 days(20TB out of 200TB) with data growth of 1TB per day

Benefit: “The savings that we made from using theEnterprise Resource Suite paid back the investmentin less than 12 months."

Hermann HocksAudi AG, IT Service Controlling,Manager Service Planning



Chargeback/Billing – 20-25% of total Storage Savings

Align Storage usage with Business Needs

• Monthly (frequently) billing allows departments to understand storage usage and costs

• Modify user behavior by identifing unnecessary and redundant data • Allows IT to be on a cost/service basis

• Turns IT into a profit center

• Used by departments to lower storage costs



Charging/Billing


Customer Success

Requirement: Fast, reliable, daily storage reporton millions of files and directories

Departmental billing linked to internal cost centerson Oracle database

Problem: Unmanageable ad hoc scripts managing

180 Windows, UNIX, and NetApp servers

Solution: ERS user-defined policies allowed Boschto charge storage resource use against existingcost centers with updated billing available on a daily basis

Complete success: Corporate-wide deployment in process



Service Level Agreements (SLA) – 5% of total Storage Savings

SLA Management and Monitoring Simplified

• Departmental SLA‘s to be enforced

• Pay only what you use

• Optimal use of resources

• Measurement of Services from an outside vendor and reconcile SLA‘s with service received

• Measurement of Services provided to internal costumors/departments


Reports Storage Performance ERS 2.5



Operations – 10-50 % of total Storage Savings

Simplify your Storage Administration and Overhead

• ERS is a manager of managers, collects data from multiple application vendor for a centralized view

• Single point of management for thousands of servers

• Central console gives common overview of all storage parameters • Substitutes many different expensive Software Instruments

• Policy engines allow consistent and scheduled policy enforcement in hetergeneous systems

• Automated reporting allows data collection at non-critical times

• Less (qualified) staff is needed



Before – Operational Costs

Different Solutions =Increase of Expense

After – Operational Costs

Single Solution, seamlessly integrated = 10-50% operationalSavings


You can have these savings today!



For a demo or quick assessmentplease contact

David RobinsonFred Rehhausser

Call today to see how DataGlobal ERScan save you storage dollars

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