Ideas International Puts Storage Consolidation Planners in Control with a Powerful New Online Tool That Helps Assess the Greenness of Storage Solution Implementations
October 15, 2007 - Sydney, Australia
Ideas International Limited (ASX:IDE) has today announced the release of a new software tool that is specifically designed to help enterprise storage buyers model alternative storage consolidation scenarios.
The new STorage Analysis Report (STAR) from Ideas International presents users with a unique opportunity to easily model “before and after” scenarios as the first stage in planning a storage consolidation project. With this tool, users can compare their current storage installation against a comprehensive list of storage product and capacity options to quickly identify consolidation alternatives.
Outcomes from STAR allow users to determine key consolidation planning criteria including the relative environmental impact (or “greenness”) of adopting various storage consolidation strategies. By using the tool, a storage purchaser can rapidly evaluate how energy-efficient one solution may be over another and then have a baseline for determining likely power and cooling cost savings.
STAR is a companion tool to the Ideas International Server Consolidation Analysis Report (CAR), which has been very successful at helping enterprise server buyers model their server consolidation initiatives.
The CEO of Ideas International, Mr. Ian Birks, said: “We are pleased to be able to further enhance our offerings to provide independent storage selection tools for infrastructure technology buyers. We are committed as a firm to providing actionable research tools that help users cut through the hype to make informed purchasing decisions.”
STAR provides a comprehensive review of major online disk storage products (including Storage Area Network, Direct-Attached Storage, and Network-Attached Storage products) marketed from circa 1997 to the present. It covers a range of environmental and capacity data, including dimensions, rack U-values, heat and power requirements, maximum weight, RAID usage, and average capacity utilization.
Once users have inventoried and entered their current storage installations, they can then define various parameters for the proposed consolidated infrastructure, and explore a range of solution alternatives to achieve the desired target environment.
Full functional specifications and local country pricing for the target storage solutions can be evaluated from data held in the Ideas International online Competitive Profiles database.
STAR is available immediately and is provided as an online tool starting at USD 9,000 for an annual subscription service with quarterly data updates. More detailed reference information is available at www.ideasinternational.com/star .
About Ideas International
Ideas International Limited is the
leading provider of comparative product
and services research to information
technology (IT) infrastructure vendors
and purchasers worldwide.
The company counts all of the major
global vendors of server and storage
equipment as it customers, along with a
fast growing number of large IT buyers.
The company has research offices located
in Sydney, New York (USA), and
Oxfordshire (England).
For further information or interviews /
photos, please contact:
Ian Birks
CEO and Managing Director
Ideas International Limited
Phone: + 61 (0) 2 9472 7702 (direct)
Mobile: + 61 (0) 408 64 11 22
E-mail:
ianb@ideasinternational.com
