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Storage virtualization has been proven to reduce many different types of storage related costs. Most notably the costs of migration, asset purchase, cost of waste, floor space, electricity and many others are reduced with controller-based, heterogeneous storage virtualization. When building a business case to move to a virtual, flexible, content-and-information-cloud architecture, these cost areas are most noticeable and demonstrable.

For more specifics on some of these cost areas, here are a few of my earlier blogs for reference:

Migration

• Remastering vs. Migration
• Cost of Migration – The TCO Surprise

Power

• Top 4 things to really impact costs in 2009 – Part 1
• Environ Econ

Waste

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My one key message (for the past 12 years) is that cost reduction is not accidental; it takes a determined and structured approach. I have simplified the process to be 3 steps: identify, measure and reduce. Some previous blog entries on these topics are here:

• Think Like an Economist, Talk Like an Accountant, Act Like a Technologist
• TCO Reduction: A Customer Perspective
• So Let’s Do a TCO

Identify