Storage Management Services: Business Case
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Better Performance. Lower Cost.
To remain competitive, you need to exploit every facet of your operations for potential savings and cost reduction. As a result, you likely face having to choose between cost and quality in areas such as storage management.
Fortunately, there is a way to substantially reduce long-term costs, yet still ensure your storage solution has the accessibility, security and scalability it needs.
A Value-Based Approach
At EDS, we take a value-based approach that aligns data with the appropriate level of accessibility, performance and business value it merits. This approach enables you to:
- Save more than 30 percent by optimizing data storage placement
- Improve performance, availability and security of critical data by ensuring high-performance storage when needed
- Gain clarity and understanding of your storage environment and how it can be maximized
- Create an information lifecycle management strategy to guide future migrations
- Reduce waste by using high-capacity/low-power tiers and consolidating data across multiple locations
Solutia
When it came time to find new, innovative ways to lower enterprisewide expenses and improve business processes, Solutia collaborated with its trusted IT provider, EDS.
Using this method, we prioritize and appropriately place your data across our four primary storage tiers:
- Enterprise Storage: Provides a scalable, highly available service in a performance-based storage area network (SAN) environment
- Departmental SAN: Accommodates traditional data center demands using managed services tailored to meet typical application requirements and business loads. This allows for a cost-effective entry point into a sophisticated storage area network environment
- Departmental NAS: Supports small to large non-enterprise applications or small groups with a dedicated, centralized network attached storage (NAS) solution designed for larger Internet Protocol (IP) environments. This flexible service provides a “stepping stone” as business requirements change
- Workplace Storage: Provides a dedicated, remote NAS solution used by end-users, small to medium groups for consolidating several file shares or application servers sharing networked attached storage
Your vital, mission-critical data that requires near-constant availability and high performance is given top priority and receives high-quality storage. Less-critical data is placed on a more appropriate, cost-efficient tier.
Creating Substantial Bottom-Line Value
Currently, this process is helping clients around the world realize substantial savings while enhancing the performance and availability of their data. For example:
- A major insurer projected a three-year net benefit of $945,000 driven by improved productivity, IT cost savings and lease payment reductions.
- A large manufacturer achieved considerable savings, when performance improvements cut the time required for many business transactions in half.
- A sizeable state automobile association projected a five-year net benefit of $29.5 million based on hardware savings, cost avoidance, increased productivity and reduction in support costs.
Safe, Secure and Accessible
When you work with EDS, you'll enjoy the peace of mind that comes with having one of the industry’s most trusted and reputable names in the area of data storage. EDS:
- Manages more than 40 petabytes of storage and more than 300 petabytes of backup data
- Named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports five years in a row
Choose EDS
Find out how EDS can help you meet increasing IT demands, while uncovering new and innovative ways to boost performance and control costs.
- Download the Storage Management Services At-A-Glance PDF, 118K
- Download the Workplace Storage Fact Sheet PDF, 159K
- Download the Departmental NAS Fact Sheet PDF, 166K
- Download the Managed SAN Fact Sheet PDF, 162K
- Download the Information Lifecycle Management Fact Sheet PDF, 1.1M
- Download the Storage Rationalization Assessment Fact Sheet PDF, 141K
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
Consumer Industries & Retail Industry
EDS is behind the continued success of consumer industries & retail companies. Our Storage Management Services let them pay for the storage they need when they need it and gives them peace of mind because their valuable data is secure.