Client Challenge
- Our client was focused on a cost reduction strategy across its technology estate
- Following on from our initial assessment, Storage was identified as a target area, selected due to its ever-increasing cost profile
- While unit costs for Storage are continually decreasing, regulatory and legal requirements are driving volumes exponentially, while business demand continues to grow
- Management Information around the consumption and usage of data was difficult and labour-intensive to compile and failed to provide the required insight
- Capacity and Demand Management processes were immature
What We Did
- Built a baseline of current storage capacity by Data Centre and technology
- Assessed the Capacity and Demand Management processes against TORI’s maturity assessment model
- Built a cost model to forecast the cost impacts of the various options available to address the core issues
- Reviewed in-flight projects impacting the Storage estate
- Reviewed available data and identified gaps
- Built capacity models for each Data Centre, identifying capacity constraints
- Reviewed current technology and vendor mix
Outcome & Results
- Production of a comprehensive capacity report detailing:
- Data Centre level points of capacity exhaustion
- A review of in-flight re-fresh programmes and identification of issues therein
- Assessment of dedicated storage impacts
- Identification of unaddressed technical debt
- Provided recommendations and templates for building required Management Information
- Developed governance model and process definitions for deploying effective capacity and demand management
- Identified key levers for impacting cost base over the next 3-5 years, including significant (£10m+) cost avoidance of new hardware investment