Objective: Reduce total spend of portfolio by $20m on a $150m cost basis.
Activities:
- contract renegotiations and stakeholder management with Dell and NetApp managed services teams
- large scale backup and storage volume reductions through creative initiatives
- business case development and financial modelling for all initiatives
- redesign backup options and policies offered to consumers to reduce number of copies kept, duration of backups
- ran project to locate and delete any aged/unnecessary backup and storage volumes that had been accumulating across the organisation.
- consolidate storage offerings to customers to reduce consumption of higher tier (high IOPS) platform.
- requirements gathering and business analysis activities for a high impact project to migrate long term retention data currently kept on disk to AWS Glacier and Elastic Cloud Storage.
- Tracking of initiatives and their completion and the extent to which initiatives actually reduce bottom line spend.