Reducing or a least slowing the growth of storage costs is a top priority facing IT organizations in 2019. In this live webinar with Storage Switzerland and SolarWinds, you will learn the three steps IT professionals can take to lower storage costs WITHOUT buying more storage (the typical vendor answer). The biggest challenges are that IT professionals don't arm themselves with the tools they need to be successful, take the next step in their career path and of course, save their company money. Join our on demand webinar and learn: 1. How to Eliminate/Resolve Storage Problems - Not Throw Hardware at the Problem 2. Plan and be prepared for capacity growth and performance demands 3. How to manage multiple vendor's storage systems without replacing them

1. 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero -
How to Slash Storage Costs
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2. OurSpeakers
Kevin M. Sparenberg,
Community Manager
George Crump,
Founder and Lead Analyst

3. What Are Your
Storage Priorities?
● Meet Capacity Demands
● Improve Performance
● Reduce Costs

4. What Are the Typical
Storage Vendor
Answers?
● Meet Capacity Demands
= Buy another (shelf/array)
● Improve Performance
= Buy an All-Flash Array
● Reduce Costs
= Blank Stares

5. How Can You Reduce Costs?
● Solve storage problems instead of
throwing hardware at the problem
● Identify old data and archive or delete it
● Plan, don’t react to capacity growth and
new performance demands
● Lower operations cost by simplifying
array management

6. How to Solve Storage
Problems Instead of
Throwing Hardware at
the Problem
● Alerting to hotspots
● Visibility across application
stack
● Cross-stack IT data correlation

7. Identifying Data
Management Candidates
● You have plenty of storage
systems - is your data on the
right one?
● Identify capacity consumers
(users / applications)
● Old files, dormant VMs

8. Planning for the Future
● Upgrading for performance and
capacity is expensive because it is
reactive
● Planning allows for budgeting, gives
time to negotiate
● Also ensures that the new system is
properly sized based on forecast
● Overbuying and underbuying are
both expensive

9. Lower Operations Costs
● Multiple storage systems are the
reality of the modern data center
● Most “consolidation” solutions
are either too expensive or too
risky
● Look for a dashboard that works
with existing storage system
software instead of replacing it

10. Summary
Cost reduction will always be a priority
○ Planning and greater insight is the key
○ The problem is most IT professionals
don’t have the tools to plan and gain
insight

11. @solarwinds
The Value of a Unified Monitoring Solution
Storage Resource Monitor

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The Benefits of Integration with the Orion® Platform
Cost Reduction Single platform for Cloud – Network – Applications – Websites – Servers – Virtualization – Databases – Storage – Logs
Fewer vendor contracts
Faster resolution of issues
Connected IT teams
Automation of alerts and resolution
Availability Single connected view of entire IT stack
Complete view of internal and external networks
Root cause correlation
Automated response to alerts
Scalability SMB to large enterprise
400,000 elements in a single instance
Expand as you need
Flexibility Multi-vendor solution
Integration to third-party products
Continuous improvement Regular product development and enhancement
Expansion of supported vendors
SolarWinds® Academy training services
Community 150,000+ registered THWACK® community members
Knowledge center

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Before – After
From
Non Integrated
To
Integrated
SimpleComplex

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Storage Resource Monitor
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• Multi-vendor storage array unified performance monitoring
• Capacity planning across multiple vendor arrays
• Array and disk operational health and status
• Highly configurable alerting and reporting
• Map application software and infrastructure dependencies.
• Fully customizable dashboards
• Integration with other Orion™ modules for end-to-end visibility
• Automated dependency mapping
Out-of-the-box support for major vendor arrays:
• IBM®
• Hitachi®
• Dell®
• EMC®
• Huawei®
• InfiniDat®
• NetApp®
• Pure Storage®
• HP®
• Dot Hill®
• Kaminario®

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16. Thank you!
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17. 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero -
How to Slash Storage Costs
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