YouTube video by Mike Austin (Proper Visibility, Episode 3) explaining differences between Microsoft 365 and Office 365 with a focus here on Office 365 storage practices. In this segment Austin describes identifying inactive SharePoint sites that consume large amounts of purchased additional storage and presents an anecdote where cleanup reduced client costs dramatically.
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You also see that there's other products out there, right? And so you'll see things like, you know, a good example is we've got a lot of clients that are using additional storage for O365. When we see that, we want to get them into. Into our tool. And the reason for that is usually we can go in and we can show the actual usage of a product and go in and take a look and see how much storage are they using now. A lot of times they're buying it for SharePoint sites. And we can show SharePoint sites that are, you know, eating up terabytes of data or, you know, lots and lots of storage. And, you know, they're not even. They're not even active sites, right? So, you know, because we can go in and take a look and see, okay, what SharePoint sites are in use, how much storage do they have, when was it active, Right? So if we kind of look at this from the perspective of when was things active? These ones have never been active and they're eating up storage, right? So again, this is just a small account, but we found terabytes of storage that are in data. So we can go and they can kick off a cleanup process. We had one client that was spending half a million dollars on additional storage. We went in and we were able to show them, well, you don't need all that. Look at this. You can go clean this up. And they kicked off a project, I think internally. It cost them 30 grand, and they were able to reduce $400,000 of incremental storage costs.