Measuring and Managing the Economics of Information Storage
Jakub Swacha · Advances in business information systems and analytics book series · 2013
The chapter addresses the problem of measuring and managing the economics of information storage. By resorting to actual measurements rather than rules of thumb, one can objectively substantiate spending on information storage infrastructure and implementation of specific storage management policies. In the chapter, a versatile model of an information storage system is defined, along with a set of measures pertaining to the respective qualities of information. In addition, aggregate measures are proposed that give an overall view of the information storage system, helping to assess storage management policies with ambivalent results. Finally, the assessment procedure is described.