Orange Information Systems Group - Pressure on television broadcasters and post production houses to reduce capital expenditures and operational expenses means technologists must look beyond simply lowering HDTV and SDTV content storage acquisition costs and search for additional ongoing operational savings.

Storage Economics - Four Principles for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership

Pressure on television broadcasters and post production houses to reduce capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenses (OPEX) will continue through 2011 and beyond. Technologists must look beyond simply lowering HDTV and SDTV content storage acquisition costs and search for additional ongoing operational savings.

The HDS strategic framework for Storage Economics is proven to help IT organizations achieve economically superior deployment and growth of their storage and see sustainable and measurable OPEX cost savings. These savings include reduced waste, data remastering, reduced labor time per terabyte of capacity, lower costs of growth, reduction in power, cooling, floor space and mainte- nance fees for a unit of storage capacity. Some of these organizations' economically superior architectures let them defer capital spending by reclaiming or recovering existing but stranded capacity. The first step is to define and measure current costs since an organization cannot improve what cannot be measured. This is the core of econometrics and key to providing continuous improvement of the storage domain.

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