We are all familiar with the buzz in the IT industry over the last number of years on server virtualization and how it helps organisations to save money by consolidating their server environment and having a small number of servers running at a higher level of processor utilisation,  rather than having a large number of servers running at 5-10% utilisation which are eating up datacentre space and creating a massive power and cooling bill every month.

Did you know its possible to achieve similar savings on your storage environments, even if you haven’t implemented server virtualization?

We recently completed a storage project using a Compellent SAN solution for a large customer in the healthcare sector. They had a scenario where they were allocating LUN’s (chunks of storage) to individual systems. In some cases these LUNs were only using a fraction of the allocated storage e.g. a 750GB LUN with only 100GB of Data.