The new system went live in November of 1999, after a rapid and easy installation. Alfa is starting out with a 1.2 TB configuration, which can be expanded as needed to support new applications and incremental growth. Lower expenses, higher capacity and performance With the Enterprise Storage Server, Alfa expects to reduce operating expenses by 15 percent over the next three years. Storage management and administration costs are also expected to drop. Power consumption decreased by 85 percent.
Maintenance is cheaper, as are our lease payments.
It has all added up to reduced cost of ownership. Meanwhile, we have increased our storage capacity by 400 percent. Alfa has seen another huge benefit in the area of system performance. Most of the latency in our batch windows has simply gone away. Availability of data is much better now as well.