"On your network, you currently have %s servers, with %s storage. Of this storage, %s%%, or %s is used, and %s%%, or %s is free.
Storage utilization can be improved with NetWare 4, making available greater free space today, and postponing network disk storage expansion. This can be done by reducing the real estate consumed by current files and by removing older, infrequently accessed data, thereby consuming less valuable hard disk storage. NetWare 4 utilizes three techniques for space reduction and free space improvement:
- Block Suballocation
- Disk Compression
- Migration of Older Files to Optical Storage: High Capacity Storage Subsystem (HCSS)
Block Suballocation provides for more efficient storage of small files, and conserves space even on large files. Today, the least amount of storage a file can consume is a block. Typically, using NetWare 2 and NetWare 3, the block size is 4K. Any file that is smaller than 4K still utilizes the entire block. Additionally, if the last block utilized by large files consumes less than 4K, a portion of the last block is still wasted. On average, for each network file, 2K of storage space is not utilized due to inefficiencies in block allocation. NetWare 4 reduces wasted block space by suballocating blocks into smaller increments, yielding a 50%% storage improvement per file.
In analyzing your network, it was determined that there is %s of used space that is not already converted to NetWare 4. According to studies by Novell, on average, block suballocation yields a 15%% savings in disk space. You have indicated that via the NetWare 4 upgrade, an efficiency improvement of %s%% can be made by utilizing block suballocation. This will yield a storage gain of %s. The new storage profile with NetWare 4 and block suballocation is %s used space, and %s free space.
To further improve disk utilization efficiency, NetWare 4 utilizes file-by-file compression on the server. NetWare 4 supports rule based compression, allowing you to specify when and which files will be compressed. Any file stored at the server can be compressed with an average of 2.0:1.0 reduction in size. When the file is requested from any client - DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, or Windows - the file is then decompressed and delivered to the user. Disk compression can be implemented using several options:
- Only compress files that havenÆt been accessed in a certain number of days
- DonÆt compress certain files or directories
- DonÆt compress files or directories until the free space gets low
- DonÆt compress unless there is a specified percent gain on disk space as a result
Compression and block suballocation can significantly increase your current free space. After implementing NetWare 4 disk compression and block suballocation, you will have %s%% (%s) used space and %s%% (%s) free space. With an indicated compression ratio of %s to 1, NetWare 4 with compression and block suballocation in combination can yield up to a %s%% increase in available disk space.
Most NetWare users will maintain all files online regardless of the age of the file and the access frequency. According to studies by Strategic Concepts, Inc, up to 80%% of the data on networks is inactive and can be moved to less expensive storage devices such as optical disk or tape. Solutions available on most networks, to eliminate or reduce inactive data from wasting valuable network space, is to limit user disk space on the network, or to utilize an archiving utility to manually migrate, then recall requested files. These solutions incur significant administrative and user expense. With NetWare 4, the opportunity exists to implement less expensive storage such as optical disk while providing automated management of migration and recall.
The NetWare 4 High Capacity Storage Subsystem (HCSS) data migration capability provides a rule based file migration strategy that allows seldom-used files to be migrated to a nearline storage device, such as a read/write optical jukebox. Although the inactive files are moved to a nearline device, all files are still listed in the network directory. Even more, when a user requests the file, it is then migrated back to the system volume and delivered to the user automatically, with no special user or administrator intervention.
On your network after implementing compression and block suballocation, the inactive data on your network (data that has not been accessed in the last 90 days) still consumes %s%% of your network storage, %s. By utilizing NetWare 4, and migrating the inactive data to less expensive optical storage, you will be able to gain an additional %s%%, or %s of storage.
The overall storage benefit capability provided by NetWare 4 would provide you with an immediate %s%% storage gain, freeing %s of hard disk space on your network."
$Expansion
"As you continue to migrate applications and add users to your network, your storage requirements expand exponentially. Typically, network server storage is increasing at over 50%% annually. The increase in storage requires the purchase and installation of additional hard disk storage, the potential increase in backup system capability, and an increase in storage management tasks such as file system, capacity, backup, restore, archiving, and repair management.
On your network you have indicated that your data set is growing at a rate of %s%% annually. At this growth rate, the network server storage will expand by %s the first year. With a hard disk unit cost of %s per GB, this growth will lead to a storage expansion cost of %s.
At the indicated growth rate, the network will grow to %s in Year %s, an increase of %s. The cumulative costs to grow the network over the %s year analysis period is %s.
As demonstrated, NetWare can reduce the amount of required storage space through block suballocation, compression, and HCSS data migration. Today, using NetWare 4 and the important disk saving features, %s of storage will be made available for additional data set growth. Prior to the growth expected in Year 1, the network will have %s of used space, and %s of free space.
In Year 1, the network data set will grow by %s%%, yielding %s of expected growth. With NetWare 4, not only will the existing data be compressed, but all new data added to the network by users and applications will also be compressed. With a compression ratio of %s to 1, the first year data set growth will be reduced from %s to %s.
Because NetWare 4 has increased the amount of free space available to new data by more effectively organizing the allocation, compressing the data, and migrating the inactive data to less expensive optical storage, much of the data set can be added to the network without increasing the hard disk capacity. In this model, we will only have to add disk drives with NetWare 4 when the disk utilization reaches the original %s%% used. Until this point, your NetWare 4 network server data set can expand with little to no incremental costs.
Additionally, with the NetWare 4 HCSS feature, the online storage will be divided between hard disk at %s%%, to contain the most active data, and %s%% on optical, to contain the least active data. By organizing data based on access requirements, retrieval performance, and storage costs, expenses are minimized by the price advantage maintained by optical over disk, while user performance is maintained.
In Year 1, the storage expansion of %s compressed will yield an increase of %s to the hard disk data set, and %s on optical. This will yield an increase of %s of hard disk, at an expense of %s per GB for a total of %s in hard disk expansion costs, and %s of optical storage at an expense of %s per GB, for a total of %s in optical expansion costs, with a total Year 1 storage expansion cost of %s.
By Year %s, the storage expansion of %s compressed total from today will yield a cumulative increase of %s to the hard disk data set, and %s on optical. This will yield a cumulative increase of %s of hard disk, for a total hard disk expansion cost of %s, and %s of optical, for a total optical expansion cost of %s.
The cumulative storage expansion costs for NetWare 4, using block suballocation, compression, and HCSS, is %s. In comparing NetWare 4 to your current network server topology, NetWare 4 will reduce your storage expansion costs by %s in Year 1, and %s in cumulative savings by Year %s."
$Management
"NetWare 4 reduces network management costs by providing the following administrative features:
- NetWare Directory Services (NDS) reduces network management tasks by allowing for the addition, modification and deletion of users and resources globally, eliminating the need to duplicate the administration tasks at each server. This administration can be centrally managed from any point on the network.
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) reduces the time required to learn and perform administrative tasks.
- Disk Space Management through block suballocation, rule based file compression, and rule based data migration helps eliminate out of disk space errors and manual archiving and retrieval.
- Fault Tolerance including fault tolerant login, read after write verification, redundant directory file allocation tables, disk mirroring and duplexing, can reduce downtime management and eliminate failure and repair labor expenses.
On your network you are performing the following management tasks to administer users and resources on the network:
- Add Users
- Modify or Change Users
- Delete Users
- Assign Shared Resources
- Assign/Change Security
To perform any of these tasks on NetWare 2 and Netware 3, you have to repeat the efforts for each server and service a user accesses because they have independent databases to support user information, rights, and security. With NetWare 4 you will only have to perform the task once. Because of the global NDS database, the assignment or change can take place on any workstation, and is implemented globally across all relevant servers. And not only will the number of tasks be reduced, but you should experience a significant reduction in administrative task time because of the GUI administration console.
Today, the user administration tasks are being performed on %s servers or services for each network user, yielding annual user administration costs of %s the first year. As the number of workstations increase, the tasks will expand, yielding an expected annual user administration cost of %s by Year %s, for a cumulative expense of %s over the %s year analysis period.
With NetWare 4, the user administration tasks only need to be performed once, rather than on multiple servers. In our model, holding the task times and annual tasks constant, you can reduce annual administration costs to %s the first year. As the network grows, workstations, servers and services are added. However, NetWare 4 tasks are only affected by the increase in users, not by the addition of servers or services. The administrative expense increases to %s by Year %s, for a cumulative administration expense of %s.
This yields a cumulative savings of %s over the %s year period by using NetWare 4 over your current network server systems. Of course, realizing these benefits will depend on management's ability to move network administrative resources to other assignments.
Many companies that have migrated to NetWare 4 have been able to avoid hiring additional network administrative staff. Others have moved this valuable resource into revenue producing areas. In Year 1, you have indicated a %s staff avoidance savings. Over the %s year analysis period, you have indicated a cumulative staff avoidance savings of %s without factoring in growth.
This yields a cumulative administrative savings of %s over the %s year analysis period."
$Availability
"A recent Gallup poll, conducted in the United States, indicated that downtime for a typical business enterprise costs anywhere from $500 to $10,000 per hour in lost productivity and lost business opportunities. Network users must have access to the information and resources they require any time and any where. NetWare 4 is unmatched in security and reliability; both of which contribute to overall network uptime and data and resource availability. Network availability, then, is measured by your ability to access the network, its resources and information.
Lack of availability has two costs: 1. Productivity loss, which is the expense of your users not being able to perform viable work, expensed at their salary for the duration of the downtime. 2. Business loss, which is the expense of not being able to perform your business objectives, expensed at the cost of lost business effected by the downtime, for the duration that the business systems are unavailable.
On your network, you have indicated that on average you are experiencing %s downtime per week. These weekly downtime events are estimated to affect %s users. With an average burdened salary of %s, this downtime costs %s in annual lost productivity. As the number of users and average burdened salaries increase, the annual productivity losses grow to %s in Year %s, for a cumulative productivity loss expense of %s over the %s year analysis period.
With regard to lost business opportunity, your total business revenue today is %s. Weekly downtime is estimated to effect %s%% of the business, or %s annually.
NetWare 4 offers many fault tolerant features to protect your network: redundant file allocation tables, disk mirroring/duplexing, read-after-write verification, memory protection and fault tolerant login to name a few. Fault tolerant login, for example, allows you to access valuable data in the event that a server is down. Users can still login to the network through NetWare Directory Services. And, all this is done in the background. NDS provides the infrastructure for easy, secure availability of and access to resources anywhere in the network.
Other utilities of NetWare 4 supporting continuous network availability include:
- SNMP support: Network alerts that allow for proactive network monitoring and management.
- UPS monitoring: Comprehensive power management capabilities.
- SFT level III: An optional product for non-stop network operations, disaster recovery and ongoing preventative maintenance.
- RAID: NetWare 4.1 also supports fault tolerant software and hardware configurations such as disk mirroring, disk duplexing, and other RAID levels available with third party solutions.
Also contributing to network availability is Novell's extensive testing procedures. Months of extensive testing precedes the release on any NetWare operating system. Testing in the Superlab with over one thousand workstations, of all configurations and operating environments, is standard. Exhaustive beta testing with customers is completed to ensure quality and increase reliability. Finally, third-party hardware and software products are tested, approved and certified for the NetWare platform.
By using NetWare 4 fault tolerant features, it is estimated that the network downtime can be decreased by %s%%. Because of this, you could expect a productivity gain of %s and a business opportunity gain of %s this year. Over the %s year analysis period, the cumulative productivity gain could be %s, and the cumulative business opportunity gain could be %s using NetWare 4.
* Availability results are not included in total Cumulative Savings, Net Present Value or Internal Rate of Return projections."
$Upgrade Cost to NetWare 4
"Upgrading your network servers may require expenses including software license upgrades, planning, implementation, and training costs. NetWare 4 makes upgrading less expensive by providing competitive upgrade pricing from any network operating system platform and from previous versions of NetWare.
NetWare 4 reduces planning, implementation and training expenses with the following features:
- Quick software load from CD-ROM
- Default installation settings to simplify configuration
- In-place upgrade tools and across-the-wire migration tools to make migrating easier
- Third party planning tools to assist in directory planning and migration
- Novell Authorized Education Centers (NAEC), to help with all your training needs
Your NetWare 4 investment will require the following expenses above those that would already be required to accommodate network growth:
- Software License Costs: %s
- Hardware Upgrades: %s
- Planning: %s
- Implementation: %s
- Training: %s
It is estimated that the total incremental cost to upgrade to NetWare 4 is %s.
Please consult your Authorized Novell Reseller for more specific pricing."
$Return
"As more applications are migrated to your network, your client-server expenses continue to grow. Understanding the expenses to expand and manage your network can assist in reducing client-server computing cost, thereby allowing you to gain from the benefits of client-server computing while holding the line on expenses. According to a February 1994 Gartner Group study, 73%% of network ownership consists of personnel - not technology costs. Therefore, in addition to counting and reducing traditional hardware and software costs, companies are just as focused, if not more so, on decreasing so called 'soft' or 'hidden' costs.
Additionally, it is critical to plan for 100%% availability of network data and resources. Lack of availability can lead to a reduction in user productivity, and in loss of business.
Novell NetWare 4 minimizes expansion expenses, improves network performance, increases reliability and availability and attacks the 'soft' costs that make up the largest portion of the cost of network ownership. As with any information technology investment, management of the investment and company resources is key to realizing all of the cost reduction benefits available with NetWare 4. In addition to saving money, NetWare 4's easy-to-use network management saves time, allowing support staffs to focus on delivering improved service and needed applications. NetWare 4's flexible management capabilities can free Information Systems specialists from mundane administration tasks to use their talents as a competitive advantage giving network users the tools and information they demand.
Based on a %s year analysis of your network, upgrading to NetWare 4 will require an estimated incremental investment of:
- Software License: %s
- Hardware Upgrades: %s
- Planning: %s
- Implementation: %s
- Training: %s
- Total Cost: %s
At the same time, it is projected that the upgrade to NetWare 4 will yield a reduction in storage expansion costs by providing block suballocation, compression, and automated data migration. Additionally, central global management of users and resources can reduce administrative expense.
Projected return of migrating to NetWare 4:
- Cumulative Reduction in Storage Cost: %s
- Cumulative Management Savings: %s
- Total Cumulative Savings: %s
- Internal Rate of Return: %s%%
- Net Present Value: %s
- Break Even in Months: %s
Additional savings, not included in return calculations, can be achieved when considering the improvement in data availability using NetWare 4. These savings can amount to cumulative productivity and business opportunity gains as follows:
- Productivity Gains: %s
- Business Opportunity Gains: %s
While the standard business school techniques of measuring the return on investment are no longer sufficient when considering information technology investments, it is a good place to start. In addition, management and Information Systems specialists should agree on what is to be accomplished with investments in information technology and ensure that the IS plan supports the business plan. This approach looks beyond the hardware and labor savings cited above into how the investment can improve business processes, support marketing and customer service, and improve competitiveness. While not included in this analysis, NetWare 4's biggest opportunity may be in allowing management to move valuable resources from lower level tasks into projects that improve the bottom line for the company and that improve employee productivity and morale.
NetWare 4 provides unmatched scalability, connectivity to internetworks, complete and established infrastructure, and the services of file, print, directory, messaging, management, routing, and security that customers demand. On a cost basis, NetWare 4 offers tremendous value and a solid information technology investment."
