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August 2015 Spend-to-Save --
Part 2 of 2 In this installment, we continue with applying the
concept of “Spend Wisely to Save Money” to building an effective IT
infrastructure, and demonstrate how this approach may result in significant
operational cost savings for the business. Within this context,
Spend-to-Save simply means designing your IT infrastructure with the
goal of “spend on prevention upfront and save on recovery cost when
disaster strikes” in mind. Review: As information technology evolves, IT system has
become increasingly important to any business. In particular, the storage
system which houses all aspects of a business’ data such as R&D,
financial, personnel, customer, transactions, email correspondence, and
more; is at the heart of the business operation. Business operation would come to a halt should the storage system
fail, resulting in loss of revenue and customer satisfaction.
Notwithstanding, storage high-availability capability, the only fail-safe
measure to insure data protection and availability, is often left out of
the initial design due to budget constraint. This omission would introduce
a great risk, as all eggs end up in the same basket. 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. ... Learn more >> |
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