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Storage Fusion’s Latest Release of SRA Delivers Enterprise Class SaaS Storage Analytics using a Dramatic New Pricing Model
November 2009 by Marc Jacob
Storage Fusion announced the newest release of its comprehensive SRA (Storage Resource Analysis) service using a flat rate pricing model that sets a new standard for cost effective SaaS (Software as a Service) delivery. The new release of SRA combines all of Storage Fusion’s analytic modules into a single unified service with a small monthly subscription fee. Using truly non-intrusive SaaS technology, SRA delivers enterprise analytics at a fraction of the cost of consultant services or on-premise resource management applications.
Since its launch less than a year ago, SRA has helped organisations reclaim petabytes of storage capacity and has provided CIO’s with the information they need to reduce capital expense and optimise the performance of their heterogeneous storage estates. Storage Fusion customers come from a wide range of industries and include companies as diverse as BGC Partners (formerly Cantor Fitzgerald), O2 and Reuters.
The new release of SRA is Storage Fusion’s most powerful version to date and includes a comprehensive set of analytics that report on system utilisation, capacity allocation and disk tiering based on workgroup classifications. It also includes the recently-announced environmental module that calculates power consumption of storage hardware down to individual disk drives.
In the past, Storage Fusion’s SRA service fees were based on the amount of disk storage capacity being analysed. The new model totally eliminates this multilevel pricing structure. SRA’s complete range of enterprise class analytics is included in the flat monthly service charge no matter the total storage capacity or number and location of data centres.
