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“Facts are stubborn things.”<\/i><\/span>
\n — John Adams<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A reader asked me to make a list of ten rules of storage management which he could run his enterprise on, without breaking his budget or running out of storage. A sort of Generally Acceptable Storage Principles, that correlates to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Perhaps we should start a group called GASP \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n

Rule 1)<\/span> Never run out of storage – Running out of storage will stop your business.
\n Rule 2) <\/span>Storage is king – Your business requires access to its data storage assets to remain in business. Without your data, you are out of business.
\n Rule 3) <\/span>Know your available storage now! – How much actual, tangible, available storage do you have now.
\n Rule 4) <\/span>What is your storage balance? – Was there any change in your daily storage balance of available storage, and storage reserves. Why?
\n Rule 5)<\/span> You can’t manage storage on a monthly basis – Available storage is used daily with unpredictable spikes and valleys. A monthly synopsis may tell you that you are running out of storage too late to react and head off a storage shortage that negatively impacts your business
\n Rule 6)<\/span> Forecast your Storage – what is your forecast growth for the next 6 months, can your available storage inventory last that long
\n Rule 7)<\/span> Storage problems don’t just happen – There will always be leading indicators prior to a storage failure, or available storage shortage . Learn the signs.
\n Rule 8)<\/span> Unused storage has a cost – Unused storage inventory costs money to maintain. Empty disks cost money to purchase and keep spinning. What is your unused storage holding cost?
\n Rule 9)<\/span> Know the Internal Rate of Return for your storage -Any underutilized business equipment has a carrying cost. Service, support and upgrades for under utilized storage is wasteful.
\n Rule 10)<\/span> Maintain good relations with your storage customers – Alienating your storage users will create storage backwaters and raise the overall cost of storage.<\/p>\n

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