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August 2015 Spend on HA SAN to Save TCO
So how do we apply the water tower analogy to wisely building a
storage system that saves money in the long run? By the same reasoning --
incorporating HA redundancy in the system architecture that requires
“additional” initial investment in a second storage system and the HA
equipment, which serves to save on protection against unplanned downtime
and elimination of planned downtime, for the long haul. Let’s take a look at a sample global company that operates 24x7, has annual revenue of $60 Million and 600 employees, with average annual salary $30,000 per employee working 50 hours per week. Assuming that a planned outage affects 10% of the workforce, 50 hours of downtime in a year results in the following costs, which add up to $208,500 during a 3-year period. If our sample company had Loxoll HA-AP
enabled HA SAN instead of a simple RAID architecture to begin with, it
would have had to make additional capital investment, but because the HA
SAN helps to prevent unplanned downtime and supports on-business-hour
maintenance, which practically reduces downtime to zero, the additional
investment yields the long-term savings on TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) is
a whopping 52% over the same 3-year period! Hence, we strongly recommend
the Spend-to-Save strategy, spend upfront on prevention to save on
recovery cost when disaster strikes, for your consideration: |
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