Innovative Solutions to Avoid and Reduce Storage TCO
IMT Partners has developed a set of innovative core solutions with a clear goal in mind - Helps our clients to actively seeking for better ways to significantly avoid and reduce the TCO associated with delivering storage services to line of businesses. These solutions have been applied to clients in various industries including Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, High Tech, Energy and Utilities, Life Science, and Pharmaceuticals.
We have developed industry-first appliance (eSCM) to be used as the primary tool to enable our clients to measure, analyze, report, plan and validate the TCO avoidance and reductions as well as develop business-case ROI before implement any storage and data management initiatives. In addition, we have developed the Automated Information Management methodology (AIM²) to provide our team of expert business analysts, technical solution architects, and project managers to tailor the solutions to meet each client’s unique requirements while maintain consistent results in our solution delivery. IMT Partners leverages client’s existing investments in tools and introduce best-of-breed agent-less tools from our network of technology partners.
Our core solutions for avoiding and reducing storage TCO include:
The following key findings have resulted in substantial TCO reductions for our clients:
- 35 - 50% of stranded storage capacity can be reclaimed for future needs
- 25 - 50% switch ports are not assigned which can be consolidate to reduce operation costs
- 40 - 60% TCO reduction (cost per GB) by migrating SAN and DAS-based data to lower-cost storage platforms
- 35-50% of (aged over 6 months) files can be archived to lower-cost storage
- 10-15% of files can be purged immediately due to inappropriate contents or violating company security policies
- 5-10% of files owned by unknown users which can be archived or purged
- 15 - 35% of applications storage are reaching critical thresholds (90% of storage provisioned)
- 30 - 50% of applications utilized less than 25-30% of allocated storage within the next 6-9 months