Lack of information is a leading factor in excessive storage costs today. The inability to quickly access information around who is using what storage and for how long encourages prudent administrators to keep data much longer than needed.
Fortunately, Servergraph’s Chargeback feature is both an effective data management tool and, more specifically, a financial management tool for monitoring storage use and applying cost based on a customizable billing model. Administrators can use this tool to monitor storage overuse and motivate individuals to keep their storage use to a minimum. At the press of a button, Chargeback quickly provides information on who is accessing and using storage.
Chargeback is available in both Servergraph Professional and Data Protection Expert.
Servergraph provides a totally flexible and customizable billing model by allowing companies to create separate billing rates for different tape media, onsite versus offsite storage, or by quota levels. Servergraph performs completely automated billing by application based on network usage (amount of data being moved across the network), occupancy (amount of disk space taken up in storage), or a hybrid of both. From setting up a basic billing model to a complex one – Servergraph makes it easy for your organization to choose the metrics that best apply to your environment.
Download the Servergraph Professional datasheet on how to Effectively Manage Your Storage Assets with Chargeback.
Data Protection Expert offers a number of reports and graphs to track storage use across a multi-vendor environment. The Billing Charge bar chart and the Billing Trend line graph, for example, are completely customizable to match the billing model at any site. By setting up billing groups through an easy-to-use interface, administrators can determine the base fees, tiered billing rates, fee periods, and currency type for both stored data and data that is transferred across the network for any number of clients or groups. Chargeback comes standard with all Data Protection Expert installs.
*Note: Chargeback for Servergraph Professional is an add-on feature and not part of the standard package. Please inform your Servergraph representative if you are interested in including Chargeback with your purchase.
