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Storage is a shared infrastructure, an IT supplied service. In this case, any application might easily use up a large percentage of your total space, reducing the space for your retail/capital markets groups. Good cross charging, effective reporting and openness as to what is happening in the storage area is key.

Avoiding the situation where business stops because the filer, the server, or the rig is full is part of the storage due diligence, but equally is the business’ preparedness to purchase/request more storage when they’re told to. There’s edge living, and trying to avoid it the situation, edge living is fine, ignoring the problem until it affects day to day business is poor management, poor business and short term thinking. You might put off several million capex to save you money in the short term, but how much does it cost in emotion, business and support when your settlements system stops because the disk is full.

Making storage a per gigabyte cost helps focus peoples’ attention, do they really need that 200gb disk?

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