Economic Impact of Storage Virtualization

HDS works with several other large oil/gas customers with global operations and storage infrastructure environments that are very similar to XYZ. Great strides have been made with these clients to reduce unit cost of managed storage, as well as ancillary OPEX costs that contribute to, or are associated with, storage TCO. Although each client is different with the technologies and storage operation maturity, intelligent-controller-based virtualization and integrated tiered storage has been a fundamental strategy in new storage architectures with most all of these clients. The nature of the oil and gas industry is such that continuous improvements in ROA and TCO are essential for strategic planning and tactical implementations.