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Clearing the Clouds: Lucidity in Storage Optimization

Name: Clearing the Clouds: Lucidity in Storage Optimization
Uploaded: 2024-04-04T16:45:03+00:00
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: YouTube talk (Mike Austin) presenting a customer case study where implementing Lucidity substantially reduced storage costs and operational effort. The…

4 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube talk (Mike Austin) presenting a customer case study where implementing Lucidity substantially reduced storage costs and operational effort. The customer’s storage spend fell from $1.5M/year to an estimated $750k–$1M/year depending on further cloud migrations; operational effort dropped from 100 days to 2 days of FD/DevOps effort.

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$1.5 million per year.

Between $750,000 and $1,000,000 per year (range depends on additional workloads migrated).

100 days of FD effort (approximately one-third of a person’s time).

2 days of effort.

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So this is an example of a customer where they were running into budget constraints, you know, they couldn't manage. You know, they're, they're having challenges with their cash flow, all of those sorts of things. And storage was costing them $1.5 million per year. Now, post lucidity, it's going to cost them somewhere between 750 and 1 million per year. And that, the delta on that is really depends on how many more workloads they end up migrating into the cloud. Okay. It's not that. You know what I mean? As they add more, there's going to be some flexibility increases as they add more applications in and whatnot, right? And then the operational efficiency, it was costing them 100 days of FD effort to manage this. Right? So it's almost a third of a person's time just managing this. You got your DevOps time and imagine the challenges of we had an outage and it's due to storage and you know, those sorts of things, right? And when we put in lucidity in this customer, it went from 100 days of effort to two days of effort.