Once Fidelity National Information Services made the decision to embark on a path involving integrated tiered storage from Hitachi Data Systems, tangible OPEX and CAPEX savings were not far behind.

Findings in this case study regarding the tiered storage project's ROI, intense savings, and short payback period bear witness to early Hitachi Data Systems claims that a tiered storage deployment is capable of yielding significant reductions in both OPEX and CAPEX costs.

Fidelity National Information Services realized dramatic savings across the board thanks to the development of several virtual tiers of storage and the ability to seamlessly migrate data between the tiers. Just some of the savings came included deferred expenditures in extra hard disk capacity, reductions in labor costs, improved efficiencies in storage management, and faster, more reliable data protection.