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When asked to rank the most important goals for I&O leaders, cost optimization is still a major factor in a 2019 Gartner survey. Read more to understand how you can contain storage budget costs while optimizing your stability, agility and service quality.

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Included in XSi’s newsletter is Gartner Report on Top 5 Emerging Cost Optimization Opportunities for Storage and Data Protection. In fact, XSi even offers a 6th rapidly growing opportunity for data storage cost reductions, likely to be very logical for your post-warranty or legacy assets.

Read Gartner’s Top Five Opportunities in the XSi Newsletter

XSI’s Optimization Service:

Enables a Hybrid Hardware Maintenance approach to maintenance contracts which reduces cost, often consolidates or simplified vendor management and can simplify short or long-term agreements.

Work with an OEM-neutral provider that isn’t striving for a tech refresh, but will instead provide a support model for as long as you choose to retain your storage hardware.

Experience multi-vendor/OEM expertise from a provider that has been in business for 30 years and currently supports 42 highly sensitive federal agencies.

Gartner Report on Top 5 Emerging Cost Optimization Opportunities for Storage and Data Protection, By Julian Tirsu, Michael Hoeck, Santhosh Rao, Jerry Rozeman, Julia Palmer, 27 August 2019. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be

It’s No Longer Necessary to OVERPAY for Data Storage Maintenance

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Benefits of XSi Lifecycle Management & Hybrid Support

I&O Operations can proactively drive down OpEx AND reduce CapEx.
Mission critical risk has been mitigated through investments in redundancy; therefore, expensive OEM maintenance contracts are no longer required.
Post-warranty assets have often reached “stable state,” and IT staff can dedicate more time to key business drivers, as opposed to chasing the bugs of new data storage hardware.
Critical vs. Non-Critical Assessments create the cost-saving rationale for, and the ability to quantify the value of choosing pre-owned storage, servers and networking assets.
Having any post-warranty hardware creates the cost-saving rationale for, and the ability to quantify OpEx savings by using an Independent Support Provider.
ITAM teams will need to stretch their skills beyond software activities, but the Data Center Operations (or Hardware Infrastructure) staff can provide valuable input!
Not all expensive tech refreshes are mandatory. Instead, you have the luxury of keeping older hardware for as long as it operates, or is of value within your unique environment!

Bi-Annual Newsletter Summary

Read our newsletter for insights regarding Cost Optimization for Data Center Storage.

XSI’s Optimization Service:

It’s No Longer Necessary to OVERPAY for Data Storage Maintenance

Benefits of XSi Lifecycle Management & Hybrid Support