1. Data Storage Requirements 2012
IAKFiler1/IAKFiler2
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These have not been in the budget for the last two years.
These filers hold data for Providence Imaging Associates, including email, image file
temporary storage, shared storage, home directories, and cross-replicated data for disaster
recovery (DR).
These filers should be replaced, as both of them are approaching constant maximum CPU
usage, and both will reach maximum capacity by the end of 2010. After this time,
snapshot capacity will continuously degrade until snapshots are no longer possible. In
addition, DR data replication will also be seriously degraded, to the extent that full DR
may not be possible in the event of a filer failure.
Replacement cost of these filers are $35,000 each.
Total, this portion: ........................................................................................... $70,000.00
Estimated time: ..................................................................................................... 15 hours
AKFiler6/AKFiler7
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These have reached their 5-year lifecycle.
These filers hold data at Providence Alaska Medical Center, including shared storage,
home directories, applications, Oracle databases, and most importantly, Epic reporting
data.
Performance of these filers may be impacted by projected workload increases.
Limits in deduplication size, allocatable aggregate size, and volume size cause
unnecessary administrative overhead, and increase the potential for failure or data loss.
Total, this portion: ......................................................................................... $220,000.00
Estimated time: ..................................................................................................... 30 hours
Storage growth
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Current data growth rate is 35% per year. This data growth rate is not projected to
appreciably shrink in the coming year; in fact, it is likely to increase, owing to the new
possibilities for data manipulation and generation supported by Epic and projected future
development efforts (Amalga).
With a fully-funded budget for growth, we will be able to continue to meet the demands
imposed by the new technologies being developed and deployed in this environment.
Total, this portion[1]: ...................................................................................... $95,000.00
Estimated time: ..................................................................................................... 20 hours
TOTAL COST[1]: ..................................................................... $385,000.00
TOTAL TIME: ................................................................................. 65 hours
NOTES
[1] $20,000 may be subtracted if the AKFiler6/7 upgrades are funded.