CASE STUDY
“Capacity Planning Automation Reduced Our Reporting Time by 50%” | Fortune 500 Financial Institution
Overview
“Including the efforts needed to maintain our prior tool’s infrastructure, we saved an entire FTE – plus significant cost savings between the tools.”
– Capacity Planner,
Fortune 500 Financial Institution
The Problem
Monthly Capacity Planning Reports Were Too Time-Consuming
To perform effective capacity planning for 300 PB of storage, this two-person team needed faster, more accurate historical data from their devices. Although they used a management tool to collect this data from their multi-vendor storage environment, the process was difficult and time-consuming.
Meanwhile, using the data required them to build and maintain tedious spreadsheets, each separately designed for specialized tasks like forecasting. “It took a good two weeks just to do monthly reports,” said one of the capacity planners. That left less than half the month to accomplish anything else.
The Outcome
Automated Capacity Planning Reports
Visual Storage Intelligence’s® vendor-agnostic data collectors take in and sort infrastructure data with no need for external management. Teams can generate any of their 60+ reports in just a few clicks.
Tasks that seemed impossible in Excel – like change forecasting and volatile trend modeling – are accessible in minutes on Visual Storage Intelligence’s® dashboard.
The Impact
Reporting Time Cut in Half
By using Visual Storage Intelligence®, the team gained back more than a week per month in reporting time to use on new projects moving the organization forward.
“Including the efforts needed to maintain our prior tool’s infrastructure, we saved an entire FTE – plus significant cost savings between the tools.”
