IT budgets are growing at six percent a year – but data under management is growing between 50 and 70 percent or more. Keeping up with the business's data growth while reducing the unit cost of information management requires an understanding of underlying costs.

IMT Partners' Active Cost Management Solution begins with development of a customized cost management model for your enterprise that identifies the total cost of ownership (TCO) of storage management by line of business, types of data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) for each line of business (LOB), location, storage and switching equipment, capital purchase, installation and maintenance fees, administration and facility costs, and many other factors. This will set a baseline for reporting, analyzing and identifying key opportunity for cost avoidance and reductions. The eSCM appliance provides over 50 reports for client to understand key TCO metrics such as:

• Total CAPEX and OPEX
• Year-to-Date CAPEX and OPEX
• Cost per GB/TB by device type, device, vendor, location, and data types
• Cost per line of business (LOB) by data type

We begin the customization of the cost management model by identifying the line of businesses, discovering information about your storage and computing inventory, determining allocation and utilization for each data type by LOB, and developing a custom set of reports that puts you in control of storage and data management costs.

Our Active Cost Management solution does not stop at the customized cost management model. IMT Partners will recommend, install, configure, and integrate best-of-breed products and tools to enable automation of data collection to minimize the effort and costs associated with keeping the model updated. These automation tools and products will enable your organization to allocate the right information to the right storage tier for cost and utilization optimization and efficiency.