Northern Storage Suite delivers financial returns in three ways: by improving utilization of existing resources, by reducing the pace of hardware investment and by reducing the need for administrative intervention in data management.

Through Northern Storage Suite's abilities to identify and reclaim poorly utilized storage space customers are able to cut resource consumption by an average of 30% within the first 30-days of operations. Northern Storage Suite extends hardware investment intervals. Reduced need for hardware investment impacts on administrative costs, energy costs and pure hardware costs in terms of simple disk and disk arrays.

Finally, Northern Storage Suite reduces the single largest cost associated with storage provision and maintenance - administrative costs - in two ways. Through delegation to end-users, reporting and automation features, NSS is able to remove and streamline administrative tasks; reducing the administrative cost per megabyte. And by reducing overall data center size NSS is able to reduce the source of storage administration costs.