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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

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

/ hour

Average Annual Reporting Costs

/ year

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

% of storage

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

% of storage

Purchases Avoided due to Improved Capacity Planning (VSI 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

Workload Placement Cost Avoidance

Capacity Planning Cost Avoidance

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

saved

Chargeback / Showback Cost Avoidance

saved

Annual Costs That Are Preventable with VSI

per year

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