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Storage Economics
PROTECT & MANAGE DATA
All too often, organizations do not gain the storage
benefits they expected from purchasing the least-
expensive disk technology. In large part, this is because,
on average, disk technology comprises only 30 percent
of the total cost of ownership, while the elements that
make up the other 70 percent are commonly overlooked.
In our Storage Economics Analysis, Forsythe models your
storage environment from a technical and financial
perspective, helping you evaluate your operational
expenditure (OPEX) and capital expenditure (CAPEX)
options in the context of an overall storage strategy. This
helps you explore and assess alternative storage
decisions and their financial impacts.
The Forsythe Approach
Forsythes Storage Economics Analysis includes a series
of interviews with key IT and financial decision makers,
encompassing service-level considerations for business
units and end users, as well as your current-state
technology and economic profile. We help you establish a
baseline total cost of storage for the current environment
and the next three years. In addition, we help evaluate
data management and storage technologies, review
operational effectiveness, and create an economic model
of your storage environment.
The result is a clear perspective on technological and
process upgrades, OPEX and CAPEX reductions, and
financial options. Using Forsythes modeling calculations,
we can quickly assess your storage environment,
providing immediate value in point-purchase decisions
and aligning your storage strategy to an overall
economic plan.
Forsythe has conducted hundreds of ROI and TCO
modeling projects across all industries and organization
types. This has led to the development of a unique
approach that draws on Forsythes technical and
economic expertise, and has met with excellent reviews
from our clients IT and financial decision makers.
Supporting todays rapidly changing storage needs requires strategic planning and insight into the
available alternatives. Budgets are tight developing transparency and economic clarity around
operational and capital storage expenditures is smart business.
Information Strategy & Economics
Storage Economics
At a Glance:

Sustain long-term OPEX and CAPEX
reductions in your data management and
storage environment

Determine financial decision making metrics

Create an information management
framework for all levels, from the
boardroom to system administrators
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For more than 35 years, Forsythe has delivered forward-thinking advice, technology, and operation-enhancing solutions. As an
independent advisor, Forsythe can help you address every aspect of your infrastructure, including how new solutions may
affect the bigger picture. Working with every major provider, Forsythe acts as your single point of contact for managing the
cost, effectiveness, and risk related to your information systems.
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8/07
Reduce the Total Cost of Your
Storage Environment
Forsythes Storage Economics Analysis helps you realize
significant savings in annual storage budgets. We look
beyond the unit price of disk storage to provide
recommendations aimed at lowering your total cost of
ownership. We quantify OPEX savings over three years,
evaluate the trade-offs between OPEX and CAPEX
expenditures, and review the potential inconsistencies
between the useful life and book value of current assets.
Ultimately, this helps you understand the financial levers
available to improve your storage environment.
These savings can come from:

Technology acquisition costs

Maintenance fees

Asset utilization

Outage time reduction

Tiers of storage in use

Resources used for data protection and replication

Resources used for the test and development
environment

Staff to manage and administer storage

Data migration methods and the time it takes to retire
aged storage assets

Data center environmental costs
22%
Utilized Disk Capacity
12%
Non-utilized Disk Capacity
8%
Storage Network (SAN)
20% Labor and Contracts
9%
Disaster Recovery (WAN)
9%
Backup and Recovery
8%
Hardware/Software Maintenance
5%
Environmental Costs
5%
Outage Time
2%
Miscellaneous
Storage TCO Typical Profile
20%
12%
22%
8%
8%
5%
5% 2%
9%
9%