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maintenance ’
Apr 24th, 2009 |
By Martin Glassborow |
Category: All, Storage
We often talk about trying to make capital acquistions cost neutral in less than eighteen months; a reduction in Opex to offset the capital cost. Vendors are often complicit in this, as I mentioned in my previous entry, inflated maintenance costs mean that is often cheaper to refresh and take the bundled maintenance offered with a new system than to continue to pay maintenance on the legacy kit.
Tags: cost, David Merrill, HDS, maintenance, migration, OPEX, refresh Posted in All, Storage |
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Apr 21st, 2009 |
By Martin Glassborow |
Category: All, Storage
Many companies are working on a three-five year refresh cycle, but should this be increased to seven? What needs to happen to make this so?
Tags: budgets, DMX, EMC, enterprise, maintenance, migration, refresh, V-Max, vSphere Posted in All, Storage |
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Mar 26th, 2009 |
By Martin Glassborow |
Category: All, Storage
Depending on the age of the arrays and depending on the software sitting on the arrays and especially if the arrays were out of warranty periods; the maintenance costs are generally so high that it simply does not make economic sense to keep them around.
Tags: cost, maintenance, migration, power, space Posted in All, Storage |
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Feb 22nd, 2009 |
By Chris Evans |
Category: All, Storage
Understanding the reasons for migration is a great place to start in developing a strategy. Seasoned IT professionals will know that change for change’s sake is not a good thing; “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – the old adage says, for good reason. Data migrations will introduce change into an environment and with change comes risk. However there are practical reasons to perform migrations.
Tags: capacity, cooling, cost, enterprise, environmental, features, maintenance, migration, performance, provisioning, strategy, support Posted in All, Storage |
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Feb 21st, 2009 |
By Martin Glassborow |
Category: All, Featured, Storage
Stephen has a post here about pricing, about getting close to your vendor and developing a relationship with just a few trusted partners. Nice idea but in any relationship there needs to be some tension to keep it fresh and alive; otherwise you find yourselves doing something because you have always done so, it becomes comfortable.
Tags: cost, list price, maintenance, pricing, RFP, street price, TCO Posted in All, Featured, Storage |
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