Consolidation is one of the best methods to reduce overall Total Cost of Ownership for growing IT environments. A growing enterprise drives the need for more applications which in turn drives the need for more server and storage resources, usually purchased on a project only basis. This behavior ultimately leads to stranded and inefficient application silos that ultimately can strangle and slow down business process and potential revenue. The limitations of embedded and direct attached storage are well know and driving the movement to eternal network storage approaches. This separation of application and respective data on a shared storage network has been well established in the industry as a guaranteed way to improve efficiency and achieve better resource optimization. BlueArc Mercury & Titan were designed for network storage consolidation to address both application servers and file servers. The unique high performance, scalability and native file system virtualization enable a powerful way to dramatically reduce the number of system required ultimately leading to a competitive Total Cost of Ownership.

Customers deciding to re-centralize and reducing the number of application servers and file servers through consolidation, BlueArc saves in all the core areas of hardware, software, administrative, maintenance and environmental cost savings. The BlueArc Titan & Mercury's performance takes the risk out of consolidation by ensuring that prior application and server islands when re-grouped through consolidation can retain ongoing performance levels while simultaneously improving storage utilization rates and enable more freedom for real-time allocation and ongoing provisioning.

Areas of TCO Cost Savings:

• Less CAPEX Hardware Cost
• Fewer Software Licenses to buy
• Changes in Operation Process resulting in OPEX savings
• Green Energy Efficiency Cost Savings
• Capacity and Performance Optimization
• Centralized Consolidation Cost Savings
• Administrative and Maintenance Cost Savings
• Virtualization Technologies saving Time and Effort

Time and time again customers buy solutions with short term needs in mind and focus only on initial cost per GB when evaluating technologies. This approach never provides a good long term solution and ultimately can drive unforeseen problems, performance limitations and ultimately exhaust every ounce of manpower left to throw at it. If you have reached this point of frustration and need a better strategy team up with BlueArc to help design and architect a better solution and storage strategy for you business. BlueArc has a variety of TCO tools and assessment services available to help develop a sound financial model to help justify the transition to a more effective consolidation solution. By partnering together we can demonstrate the hidden cost and help simplify the infrastructure with cost savings as well as key benefits like environmentally green power savings and providing a more adaptable infrastructure. When leveraging the complete set of virtualization capabilities on the platform, dramatic administrative benefits can be achieved through changes in operational process steps associated with storage provisioning and growth over time.

Primary Consolidation Related Benefits:

• 70% Higher Capacity than the nearest competition
• 16x File System Size of the nearest competition
• 125x The Number of Files Per Directory than the nearest competition
• Less than 1/2 the number of systems requires for performance and capacity scalability
• Best price performance in terms of Euro per IOP
• Unique Green architecture with best performance (IOPS) per unit of energy
• In place upgrade through modular bladed architecture for investment protection