Calculator Test - Visual One

Step 1: Current Storage Environment

Total Space in Your Storage Environment (TB)

Your Storage Costs per TB (a 2019 Gartner study found that the average annual storage cost per raw TB of capacity was $738)

/ TB

Your Average Employee Salary (a ZipRecruiter study found that the average Storage Architect salary in 2023 was $147k)

/ year

Yearly cost of your current SRM or infrastructure management and reporting tools

/ year

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Step 2: Employee Output

Staff Time Spent Building Reports (weekly)

hours / week

Staff Time Spent Modeling Trends (weekly)

hours / week

Staff Time Spent Building Capacity Planning Forecasts (weekly)

hours / week

Other Staff Time Spent Managing SRM / Spreadsheets (weekly)

hours / week

Average Hourly Wages Within Your Department

[calculator calculator-510 class:AverageHourlyWages class:form-control class:dollar "(employee-salary / 52) / 40"] / hour

Average Annual Reporting Costs

[calculator AverageAnnualReportCosts class:form-control class:dollar "(employee-salary * .025) * (StaffTimeSpentBuildingReports + StaffTimeModelingTrends + StaffTimeBuildingCapacity + SRM)"] / year

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Step 3: Cost Avoidance

Storage You Expect to Gain Annually by Recovering Orphaned Storage, ie: Hidden Free Space (Visual One Intelligence Client Average = 2% / Year)

% of storage

Storage You Expect to Gain Annually by Optimizing Workload Placements (Visual One Intelligence Client Average = 1% / Year)

% of storage

Purchases Avoided due to Improved Capacity Planning (Visual One Client Average = 2% / Year)

% of storage

Cost of an Outage (A 2021 ITIC Survey found the costs of outages exceed $300k per hour for 91% of organizations)

Value of Business Unit Cost Visibility (Chargeback / Showback Reports)

Orphaned Space Cost Avoidance

[calculator orphaned_total class:dollar class:orphaned_total class:form-control "(orphaned_space * 36900)"]

Workload Placement Cost Avoidance

[calculator workload_total class:dollar class:workload_total class:form-control "(storage_gained * 36900)"]

Capacity Planning Cost Avoidance

[calculator capacity_total class:dollar class:capacity_total class:form-control "(purchases_avoided * 36900)"]

Outage Cost Avoidance (Visual One Client Average = 1 Prevented Outage / Year)

[calculator outage_total class:dollar class:outage_total class:form-control class:dollar "cost_of_outage"] saved

Chargeback / Showback Cost Avoidance

[calculator chargeback_total class:chargeback_total class:form-control class:dollar "value_of_business"] saved

Annual Costs That Are Preventable with Visual One

[calculator preventable_costs class:form-control class:dollar "(orphaned_total + workload_total + capacity_total + outage_total + chargeback_total)"] per year

Return on Investment

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