Low TCO with software storage solutions- here’s how

Software storage solutions have been in use since their introduction to the IT world and have become quite popular. The reason behind this is that these solutions offer many benefits to the enterprises, such as; reliability, ease of use, scalability, cost savings and much more.

Among all these, cost savings is the most important thing that enterprises give preference too. This is because everybody wants to save as much money as possible and software storage solutions can help do that and significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the company. Let us see how in this article.

Low Startup Costs with Software Storage Solutions

Whether an enterprise buys traditional hardware solutions or software-definedstorage solutions, there are still some initial startup costs. In the case of hardware solutions, there are a lot of startup costs as enterprises have to pay for the hardware, service and any other additional features as well, not to mentioned, the delivery and freight charges.

However, with such solutions, there is no such case. In software storage solutions, enterprises have to just pay an initial price for the service and for only the features that they require. Not for each and everything else. Enterprises can always add more features along the way if they need them but at initial startup, they have the option to get only the features that they require. Unlike hardware setups where enterprises have to pay for each and everything during the initial startup.

Low Service & Maintenance Cost with Software Storage Solutions

Software storage solutions also have very low maintenance costs as opposed to hardware-based storage solutions. This is simply because software storage solutions like software-based SAN are software based, these are independent of any hardware and hence, gone a need to maintain any hardware.

The only maintenance cost would be training if needed. IT staff might need training for software storage solutions but even so, this is not an issue.

Easy Scalability with Software Storage Solutions

Software storage solutions offer really easy scalability. Whenever an enterprise wants to scale up and add more storage or scale-out and add more performance, enterprises can easily do this with just a few clicks. This way, there is no need to buy expensive hardware to upgrade storage and performance, with software storage solutions, all this can be done within a single storage solution in just a few clicks.

Conclusion

Software storage solutions have proven to be very cost-effective on numerous occasions and this is because of the fact that they are low maintenance, have no high initial startup costs, are easily scalable and follow a pay-as-you-go model. These solutions not only reduce the TCO of enterprises but also gives them a reliable storage solution as well.

George Williams is a Senior Technical Content Marketer at StoneFly Inc. StoneFly is a pioneer in the creation of the iScsi storage protocol, enterprise storage, hyperconverged, backup and DR, and cloud solutions.