This is a procurement model that requires you to forecast and decide at time of purchase or lease, how much, what type, what configuration of resources your organization will need over the life of the asset. Management and operations is  the responsibility of your staff and their skill and experience will determine how well, and how consistently they meet the SLAs you have with the business and application owners.

This is a basic consumption-based, pay-per-use model that aligns your costs to usage. You are only charged for the resources used each month above a base-level amount. It ensures that a reserve capacity is on hand and available without having to overprovision for unanticipated growth or fluctuations of hard to predict workloads. You and your IT staff maintain control over the type and configuration of the solution and are responsible for the management and operation as well as meeting the SLAs to the business and application owners.

This combination of utility pricing and managed services enables you to retain control of the system design configuration, and ongoing operational aspects of your infrastructure. This let's you pay only for what resources you use and provides adequate reserves for when they are needed. And, it provides commitments and guarantees for operations and management so you can be confident that cost savings will be achieved and SLAs will be met consistently. These solutions can be customized match to your specific needs.

This combination of utility pricing and managed services enables you to retain control of the system design configuration, and ongoing operational aspects of your infrastructure. This let's you pay only for what resources you use and provides adequate reserves for when they are needed. And, it provides commitments and guarantees for operations and management so you can be confident that cost savings will be achieved and SLAs will be met consistently. These solutions can be customized match to your specific needs.

All "Storage as a Service" offerings are pre-designed and pre-engineered so they can be easily and conveniently evaluated, deployed, and used. There are typically service level bands or capability choices that provide some flexibility to match to the needs of various application and workload requirements. They cannot be customized in the same way as the utility pricing model. However, they are generally the most affordable and fastest deployment approach when the services levels and capabilities fit your needs. Like a combination of utility pricing and managed services, you pay only for what you use and adequate reserves are in place for when you need them.