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Take control of data infrastructure costs

Infrastructure costs keep climbing as legacy decisions, AI demands, and licensing fees add up. Fragmented hybrid environments obscure your true spend. Gain unified control across on premises and cloud to uncover waste, optimize resources, and lower costs.

How to save on infrastructure costs

NetApp can help you find the waste, move data to the right tier, and cut spending without hurting performance.

Find savings in your environment

Full-stack observability reveals usage, performance, and cost across your hybrid estate, helping reclaim capacity, reduce overprovisioning, and cut unnecessary hardware. IDC reports average cost savings exceed $541,000.1

Put data on the tier it needs

Automated tiering moves cold data off premium storage and onto lower-cost capacity, on premises or in the cloud. GigaOm estimates automated tiering can reduce flash capacity requirements by up to 80%.2

Stop prepaying for capacity

With NetApp® Keystone®, pay only for what you use and cut storage TCO by up to 50%. Reduce support costs by about 30% compared to traditional CapEx models.3

Cut migration costs

VM migrations used to mean manual reconfigurations, budget overruns, and extended downtime. NetApp Shift Toolkit changes that math. By automating the conversion of VM formats across hypervisors, you can reduce migration time by up to 70%.4

What’s your primary cost challenge?

How organizations are improving cost control

Thor

We’re a vastly different looking organization than we were before the transformation—faster, more nimble, and cost-effective.

Scott Sibert, Director of Information Technology, Thor Motor Coach

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Uncover five hidden costs

We break down what’s increasing infrastructure spend and show how observability, data placement, consumption models, and vendor flexibility can reduce waste and improve cost control.

Dive deeper

Six ways to save on flash

Rightsize your storage to cut your flash footprint.

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Gain data visibility

Learn practical ways to cut infrastructure costs without slowing performance.

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Optimize virtualization costs

Build greater flexibility and cost control into your VM infrastructure.

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Scale capacity on demand

Flexibility meets control in one storage subscription.

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FAQs

Large enterprises optimize infrastructure costs by improving visibility, increasing flexibility, and consolidating where possible. Full stack observability helps identify where costs originate, adopt consumption models that scale with demand instead of locking you into fixed capacity, and consolidate workloads onto fewer, more efficient systems.

NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights turns raw data into actionable decisions that boost efficiency, optimize resources, and make sure every dollar drives performance.

Balance innovation and cost control by prioritizing the systems creating the most operational or financial strain first. Don’t overhaul everything at once. Pick the systems causing the most pain, fix those, and prove the value before you scale.

  • Prioritize high-impact bottlenecks first.
  • Pilot new technology on non-critical workloads before betting the business on it.
  • Use a hybrid model: public cloud for burst demand, private infrastructure for the steady, predictable stuff.

Track time-to-savings realization, capacity utilization, and cost per workload delivered. These three metrics tell you whether an investment is improving efficiency, reducing waste, and delivering measurable business value.

Organizations can reduce procurement costs through stronger vendor negotiations, better capacity planning, and more disciplined purchasing models. Procurement savings rarely come from one big move. They come from a handful of disciplined habits applied consistently.

Start by automating the predictable areas: provisioning, backups, routine monitoring. These are high-volume, low-complexity tasks, which make them perfect for automation and terrible uses of human time.

  • Centralize automation intelligence but allow local overrides for compliance-sensitive workloads.
  • Automate routine functions globally; customize rules only where regulations demand it.
  • Start with VM provisioning and backups. They’re the easiest wins with the fastest payback.

NetApp Console™ simplifies hybrid cloud management by centralizing visibility, monitoring, and automation for optimized performance and cost efficiency.

Build dashboards that surface utilization trends across your entire environment. You can’t eliminate what you can’t see, and most enterprises are sitting on more idle capacity than they realize. NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights gives you the full-stack observability to spot these gaps, whether it’s an oversized compute instance or storage nobody’s touched in months. Once you can see it, you can act on it.

Switching to a storage-as-a-service model means leaving unpredictable spending behind. With NetApp Keystone, you only pay for the capacity you use, turning storage into a predictable operating expense. This approach can cut your total cost of ownership by up to 50%, while slashing maintenance and support costs by around 30%. No overprovisioning, no unused capacity sitting idle—just efficient, flexible storage that scales with your business.

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