More than likely storage is one of the largest costs in your IT budget. Rapid data growth, hidden licensing fees and prohibitive EOL support costs make it hard for you to accurately predict actual costs beyond purchase price.
What if you could improve storage TCO by up to 54% over eight years?
That’s what Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) discovered when it analyzed the total cost of ownership of a Dell SC4020 flash-optimized storage array over eight years as compared to competing offerings from two other industry-leading storage vendors.
The ESG lab analysis was quantitative in that it compared the cost of acquisition (hardware and software), support, management and power and cooling over eight years. ESG found that the TCO of the SC4020 was impressively lower than its competitors, crediting major savings to its compact cost-effective design, software and management features. Unlike the competing solutions, the SC4020 is protected with a perpetual storage software license that stays with the array when the system hardware is upgraded.
ESG’s final verdict? “With the release of the SC4020, Dell has pioneered the push to provide feature-rich enterprise-class solutions and support for organizations with less than enterprise-class budgets and requirements.”
Let’s find some time next week to discuss how Dell is redefining the economics of storage with an enterprise-class array that lowers your total cost of ownership.