I want to arm you with the knowledge needed to properly navigate storage efficiency guarantee contracts and arrive at a safe system sizing, with reasonable assumptions.
This is another of my generic, vendor-neutral posts aimed at helping the audience be aware of certain important things that I often see overlooked.
How does one navigate the small print around storage data reduction guarantees? What are you entitled to if the vendor misses the mark? And how do you minimize your risk when faced with certain sales teams that are determined to win even if it means huge customer risk?
Do you know your data makeup? And how it may affect a capacity guarantee? But, more importantly, how it will affect your overall efficiency?
Let’s start with a nice reductio ad absurdum example to illustrate what I mean.
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