GDT Cloud Storage Design Assessment Helps Fortune 100 Chip Builder Boost Performance, Predictability & ROI

GDT performed a comprehensive cloud storage design assessment and provided prioritized recommendations that have helped our customer streamline and standardize storage, improve performance and forecasting, and increase ROI.

In the discovery phase, GDT leveraged automation to analyze the full storage environment, including workloads, applications, and platforms. GDT experts interviewed company stakeholders, including the procurement and infrastructure teams and other business decision-makers, to understand business needs, objectives, and priorities. GDT used the inputs to define and prioritize recommended solutions.

As a result of the assessment, GDT created service-level tiers for storage, matching workloads to the right storage tier. For each tier, GDT defined clear parameters for adding capacity and performance and provided the monthly cost per Gigabyte of storage, whether on-premises, cloud, or managed cloud.  The customer has used these storage tiers to simplify workload forecasting and budget planning. Reliable performance forecasting and capacity planning has enabled our customer to plan purchases well in advance and achieve higher asset utilization.

They’ve been able to update and right-size storage and re-allocate workloads to mitigate latency and overprovisioning, increasing performance and ROI and accelerating time to results and project completion.

Additionally, GDT provides updated quotes quarterly to update their standards. GDT’s work has enabled the procurement team to simplify their workflows, create a service catalog for departmental chargeback, and align more closely with the infrastructure team.