White Papers, etc

White Paper: Use and Abuse of Storage

posted on 08 June 2008 17:21

A management view by ATOS Origin

Storage accounts for a large and increasing proportion of the IT and data centre budgets. As the amount of stored data grows exponentially, enterprises are challenged to meet greater expectations for storage facilities that are agile, secure, fast and deliver high availability. At the same time there is remorseless pressure to reduce cost and improve value for money.

This ATOS Origin white paper takes a management view of the way costs can be optimised. Practical ways of achieving economies of scale are combined with the appropriate use of exciting new techniques such as thin provisioning, tiered storage and data de-duplication, to deliver the business goal of greater value for money. Meanwhile, emerging commercial models for utility storage and internal chargeback are vehicles for improving business alignment as well as providing flexibility and scalability.

Read the white paper to find out more.

Download file: 1745-1007 Use and Abuse of Storage WP1.pdf