Organizations want to reduce storage costs, improve storage utilization / reduce over provisioning & postponing unnecessary storage purchase.

WIPL will conduct a baseline analysis of storage capacity utilization by assessing: Current capacity, over provisioned capacity, capacity at risk, reclaimable storage, capacity forecast etc at storage, host and application level, WIPL will also expose areas of potential risk in the customer’s existing storage allocation processes and offers best-practicerecommendations and provides a road map for improvement

Identifies over-provisioned storage or orphaned LUNs that can be reclaimed for other storage users and hence increase utilization intern reducing costs acquires new storage at a reduced cost by delaying new storage purchases until absolutely necessary. Storage densities are increasing while the cost of storage is decreasing