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Data Management: Understanding the Real Costs
Recent information coming from major outsourcers, systems integrators, and IT departments has confirmed that the actual cost of storing data is currently about $250,000 per terabyte per annum. At first glance this might seem surprisingly expensive: when disk storage can be purchased for as little as $1,000 for a 1-terabyte array, how can the cost of keeping data be so high?
The answer is that many more factors are involved in managing data environments than simple disk storage capacity. Consider the following facts:
In order to meet agreed service levels for data availability, integrity and performance, multiple copies of the data are typically maintained on mirrored devices, off-site disaster recovery facilities and development systems.- Storage devices for industrial use require rugged and/or redundant components, with far greater performance and reliability than is typically provided by low-cost drives.
- Large amounts of expensive cache memory are required to get adequate performance from large storage arrays.
- Significant processing power is required to perform I/O operations and processes to ensure data availability (backups, for example).
- Storage farms and the associated processors require expenditures on energy, space and other environmental factors. This includes both the cost of managing the stored data itself and the associated expenses for air conditioning, sophisticated UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) equipment, and so on.
- Offsite “hot sites” require network bandwidth to maintain data currency.
- Considerable administrative work (for example, index building) is involved in retrieving data and making it ready for analysis.
- Data backup and long-term data retention typically require tape subsystems that can meet specific performance levels in order to guarantee the availability of production data.
The result: for every terabyte of required production data, as many as six or seven terabytes need to be kept online and under management across the enterprise, with associated infrastructure costs to maintain adequate service levels. For these reasons, when a mid-tier service level agreement (SLA) is in place for data, the cost of provisioning a terabyte of data can easily exceed $200,000 per annum.
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