Actual Storage Utilization And Your IT Bottom Line

By Pillar Data Systems

Even as IT budgets tighten, the growth of corporate information and data mining (the utilization of information for business intelligence) mean that the need for storage is increasing faster than ever. You may have realized efficiencies with server virtualization, but your array utilization is likely to be very poor (on average less than 40%). And, while there are ways to improve your utilization rate (use more existing capacity), the resulting performance impact on your applications tend to make those approaches unrealistic (using the capacity will create contention with the existing applications). Thin provisioning can help, but as virtual capacity becomes utilized, you need to add physical capacity to improve application performance; the vicious cycle has no end.

Pillar Data Systems is keenly aware of these issues. In fact, these are some of the very issues that were in mind when the company was founded and our technologies were designed. There is a way to build an expanding storage system that will meet your needs for now and the future without breaking your IT budget.