Total Cost Of Ownership
The GridBank™ archive offers significant savings over storage systems, including ILM solutions. The GridBank™ Platform reduces total cost of ownership in two ways:
Minimum or No Manual Intervention – The GridBank™ archive saves money by minimizing manual intervention through policy-based management, automated data recovery, and self-configuration of new nodes.
Free to Use Non-Proprietary Hardware Components – Based on clusters of low-cost servers, the GridBank™ Platform’s heterogeneous architecture offers the potential for significant cost-savings, enabling administrators to seek the best prices for storage cluster components. Because component costs tend to decrease over time, cost-conscious administrators can reduce their average cost per gigabyte by spreading out purchases.
