Capacity Management Cuts Costs

December 19, 2007: With the release of its latest storage capacity management software, MonoSphere is touting big savings for medium and large organisations, claiming that the new version can cut power and cooling costs in half.

The company claims “millions of dollars” in power and cooling costs can be shaved alongside significant reductions in capital expenditures by deploying its latest Storage Horizon capacity management software.

With calculations based on an organisation with 2.5 petabytes of storage at 40 percent utilisation and a cost of $20,000 per terabyte, the firm claims that the software can realise power and cooling savings of US$3 (AU$3.49) million over the hardware’s three-year lifespan thanks to intelligent capacity management and a doubling of storage utilisation.

With the analyst at Gartner claiming that by 2008 half of the world’s data centres will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment, MonoSphere is pitching capacity management software as not just a cost cutting tool, but a necessity.

“When evaluating storage capacity management software, most companies consider the immediate capital cost savings achieved by purchasing less hardware, because of increased utilization that is the result of systematic capacity management,” said Frank Kettenstock, vice president of marketing at MonoSphere. ”While this is immediately visible and substantial, some companies may not realize that the power and cooling savings are also very significant, allowing organizations to allocate the money to other projects.”

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