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Five storage strategies to save money

Filed in archive Planning/Strategy by James Koopmann on July 31, 2008

IT continues to use more and more storage. With uncontrolled growth comes uncontrolled spending. But for the frugal storage shope there are ways to save a dime. A report titled "Five Key Storage Strategies for a Down Economy," Forrester analyst Andrew Reichman offers suggestions on how to purchase storage intelligently while still maximizing resources.



Here are the top 5 categories.
  • Play hardball with vendors
  • Avoid new purchases by reclaiming what you have
  • Audit backup and replication configurations to cut waste
  • Rethink storage network decisions
  • Use a tiering methodology that delivers resultslinks simply
Take a look at a summary write-up at Five storage strategies that will save you money






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