Storage Infrastructure Today:
├── On-Premises SAN (100TB)
│   ├── Hardware cost: $1M CapEx
│   ├── Power/cooling: $50K/year
│   ├── Maintenance: $150K/year
│   ├── Personnel: 3 FTE @ $300K/year = $900K/year
│   └── Subtotal: $1.1M/year
│
├── Backup (Tape)
│   ├── Media cost: $50K/year
│   ├── Off-site storage: $100K/year
│   ├── Manual management: 1 FTE = $100K/year
│   └── Subtotal: $250K/year
│
└── Total Annual Cost: $1.35M
    Plus: Compliance violations, slow disaster recovery, operational overhead

Problem                    →    Cloud Solution
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High cost                  →    70% cost reduction via tiering
Inflexible scaling         →    Unlimited, instant scaling
Slow disaster recovery     →    Minutes instead of hours
Manual backup management   →    Automated lifecycle management
Geographic limitations     →    Multi-region replication built-in
Compliance violations      →    Automated enforcement
Operational overhead       →    APIs and automation

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│         Hybrid Storage Architecture               │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                   │
│  Tier 1: Hot (On-Prem SAN)                       │
│  ├── Size: 5TB (active data only)                │
│  ├── Cost: $50K/year (20% reduction)             │
│  ├── Speed: < 1ms latency                        │
│  └── Use: Production databases                   │
│                                                   │
│  Tier 2: Warm (S3 Standard)                      │
│  ├── Size: 20TB (recent archives)                │
│  ├── Cost: $450/year (30-day minimum)            │
│  ├── Speed: < 100ms latency                      │
│  └── Use: Recent backups, archives               │
│                                                   │
│  Tier 3: Cold (S3 Glacier)                       │
│  ├── Size: 50TB (compliance archives)            │
│  ├── Cost: $180/year (retrieval in min/hrs)      │
│  ├── Speed: Minutes to hours for retrieval       │
│  └── Use: Long-term retention, compliance       │
│                                                   │
│  Tier 4: Archive (Glacier Deep/Tape)             │
│  ├── Size: 25TB (7+ year retention)              │
│  ├── Cost: $25/year (retrieval in hours/days)    │
│  ├── Speed: Days for retrieval                   │
│  └── Use: Compliance holds, off-site            │
│                                                   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Total cost: $705/year (vs $1.35M current)
Savings: 99.95% (!)

Current (On-Premises SAN):
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Physical capacity: 100 TB
Utilization: 40%
Used capacity: 40 TB
Amortized hardware: $1M / 5 years = $200K/year
Operations: $100K/year
Power/cooling: $50K/year
Maintenance: $150K/year
Total: $500K/year ($12.50/TB/year for utilized capacity)

Cloud Solution (Hybrid):
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Hot (SAN) capacity: 5 TB @ $5K/year = $5K
Warm (S3 Standard): 20 TB @ $0.023/GB/month = $5.5K/year
Cold (S3 Glacier): 50 TB @ $0.004/GB/month = $2.4K/year
Archive (Deep): 25 TB @ $0.001/GB/month = $0.3K/year
DR replication: $2K/year
Operational cost: 0.5 FTE savings = $150K/year
Total: $165K/year

Cost Reduction: $500K - $165K = $335K/year (67% savings)

Current State:
– Backup management: 1 FTE @ $100K/year
– Storage administration: 1 FTE @ $100K/year
– Monitoring & troubleshooting: 0.5 FTE @ $50K/year
– Provisioning (external): 0.5 FTE @ $50K/year
Total: 3 FTE @ $300K/year

Cloud Solution:
– Automated backups: 0 FTE ($0)
– Self-service provisioning: Included ($0)
– Monitoring (automated): 0.2 FTE @ $20K/year
– Optimization (quarterly): 0.3 FTE @ $30K/year
Total: 0.5 FTE @ $50K/year

Savings: 2.5 FTE @ $250K/year freed capacity
Additional value: Can redeploy to projects = $300K+

Current Risk Profile:
– Disaster recovery RTO: 8+ hours
– Recovery cost per incident: $500K (average)
– Annual incidents: 1-2
– Compliance violations: 2-3 per year
– Fine per violation: $50K-500K
– Total risk cost: $1M+ per year

Cloud Solution:
– DR RTO: < 15 minutes (automated failover)
– Recovery cost: Near-zero (automated)
– Annual incidents: 0.1 (90% reduction)
– Compliance violations: 0 (automated enforcement)
– Fine cost: $0
– Total risk mitigation: $900K+/year value

This is RISK MITIGATION, not just cost savings.

Current Scenario (Manual Scaling):
– Add 10TB storage: 3-4 weeks, $50K project cost
– 5 projects per year × $50K = $250K/year

Cloud Scenario (Instant Scaling):
– Add 10TB storage: 5 minutes, no project cost
– Scalable with business growth, no waste
– Savings: $250K/year

Year 1:
  Storage cost reduction:          $335,000
  Operational efficiency:          $250,000
  Disaster recovery efficiency:    $900,000
  Growth/scaling savings:          $250,000
  Adoption cost:                  ($500,000)
  ──────────────────────────────────────────
  Net Year 1 Benefit:            $1,235,000
  ROI:                            247%

Year 2 & 3 (Annual Recurring):
  All benefits above:            $1,735,000
  Adoption cost:                 $0 (amortized)
  Enhanced optimization:         +$100,000
  ──────────────────────────────────────────
  Annual Benefit:                $1,835,000
  ROI:                            367%

3-Year Total:
  Year 1:                        $1,235,000
  Year 2:                        $1,835,000
  Year 3:                        $1,835,000
  ────────────────────────────────────────
  Total 3-Year Benefit:          $4,905,000
  Average Annual ROI:            327%

Availability Improvement:
├── Current: 99% uptime (87.6 hours downtime/year)
├── Cloud hybrid: 99.99% uptime (52.6 minutes downtime/year)
├── Difference: 87 hours fewer outages
└── Business impact: Revenue protection, customer satisfaction

Recovery Improvement:
├── Backup creation: Hours → Minutes (5x faster)
├── Restore speed: 4-8 hours → 15 minutes (20x faster)
├── Verification: Manual → Automated (error-free)
└── Impact: Reduced incident impact, faster MTTD/MTTR

Compliance Automation:
├── Manual audits: Quarterly, 50+ violations per audit
├── Automated checks: Continuous, 0 violations
├── Audit prep: 3 weeks → 1 day
└── Impact: Zero compliance fines, audit confidence

Provisioning Speed:
├── Current: 3-4 weeks (procurement + setup)
├── Cloud: 5 minutes (API call)
└── Impact: 300x faster time-to-value

Scalability:
├── Current: Limited by physical capacity, takes months to add
├── Cloud: Unlimited, instant
└── Impact: No more "can't scale" barriers

Geographic Reach:
├── Current: Single data center (regional risk)
├── Cloud: Global (11+ regions per provider)
└── Impact: Support international customers, disaster recovery

Data Protection:
├── Encryption: Automatic (AES-256)
├── Replication: Geographic redundancy (3+ copies)
├── Versioning: Complete history (point-in-time recovery)
└── Audit trail: CloudTrail logs every access

Compliance Standards Supported:
├── HIPAA: Automatic encryption, audit logs
├── PCI-DSS: Data isolation, encryption, monitoring
├── GDPR: Data residency, right to deletion, DPA
├── SOC 2: Third-party audited, type II certified
└── Impact: Regulatory compliance = risk elimination

Current Model (Capex):
├── Hardware upfront: $1M (major budget impact)
├── Costs lumpy: Big purchases, then quiet
├── Forecasting: Difficult (vendor lock-in risks)
└── Growth: Expensive (new purchases required)

Cloud Model (Opex):
├── Monthly bills: Predictable, based on usage
├── Costs linear: Pay for what you use
├── Forecasting: Easy (historical trends)
└── Growth: Seamless (no CapEx required)

Week 1: Discovery
- Audit current storage: capacity, usage, growth rate
- Identify hot/warm/cold data: Access patterns
- Document compliance requirements: HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, etc.
- Cost analysis: Current annual spend

Week 2: Architecture Design
- Tiering strategy: Hot on-prem, warm cloud, cold archive
- Replication strategy: Multi-region, RPO/RTO targets
- Security design: Encryption, access control, audit
- Migration plan: Phased approach, testing strategy

Week 3-4: Planning & Approvals
- Detailed migration schedule
- Vendor selection: AWS, Azure, GCP comparison
- Resource allocation: Team, tools, budget
- Executive approval

Deliverables:
- Current state assessment
- Target architecture diagram
- Migration plan with timeline
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Risk mitigation strategy

Cost: $150K (consulting + analysis)
Expected Benefit: $0 (planning phase)

Month 2: Infrastructure Setup
- Week 1-2: Cloud account setup, networking
- Week 3: Pilot application selection
- Week 4: Storage provisioning (cloud)

Month 3: Pilot Migration
- Week 1: Backup current environment
- Week 2: Migrate pilot data (5-10TB)
- Week 3: Validation & testing
- Week 4: Performance baseline, cost tracking

Deliverables:
- Cloud infrastructure live
- Pilot data migrated (validated)
- Cost baseline established
- Performance benchmarks
- Team trained on procedures

Cost: $200K (tools + infrastructure + labor)
Expected Benefit: $0 (pilot phase)
Risk: Low (pilot only, production untouched)

Month 4-5: Warm Data Migration
- Migrate recent archives (1-2 PB) to S3 Standard
- Set lifecycle policies (→ Glacier after 90 days)
- Enable cross-region replication

Month 6: Cold Data Migration
- Migrate older archives (2-3 PB) to Glacier
- Enable long-term retention policies
- Set up compliance holds

Month 7: Hot Data Optimization
- Right-size on-premises SAN (reduce from 100TB to 20TB)
- Offload less-critical databases to cloud
- Optimize cache/performance

Month 8: Cleanup & Optimization
- Decommission old tape infrastructure
- Archive old hardware
- Document learnings

Deliverables:
- 100% of data in tiered storage
- On-premises infrastructure reduced
- Automated backup working
- Multi-region replication active
- Team proficient with cloud tools

Cost: $300K (migration labor + data transfer)
Expected Benefit: $400K (cost reduction, operational efficiency)
Risk: Medium (production systems, phased approach mitigates)

Month 9-10: Performance Tuning
- Fine-tune tiering thresholds
- Optimize retrieval patterns
- Implement advanced features (S3 Select, Athena)

Month 11: Cost Optimization
- Enable intelligent tiering (automatic)
- Implement recommendations
- Evaluate commitments/reservations

Month 12: Governance & Compliance
- Formalize governance policies
- Implement tagging strategy
- Set up chargeback/cost allocation

Deliverables:
- 20-30% additional cost savings
- Automated governance working
- Team self-sufficient
- Documentation complete

Cost: $100K (optimization + fine-tuning)
Expected Benefit: $500K+ (savings + risk mitigation)
Risk: Low (mature, proven approach)

Month   Activity                Cost      Benefit      Cumulative
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1       Planning               $150K     $0           ($150K)
2-3     Pilot                  $200K     $0           ($350K)
4-8     Production migration   $300K     $400K        $50K
9-12    Optimization           $100K     $500K        $550K

Total Year 1:                  $750K    $900K        $150K

Risk: Data loss during migration
→ Solution: 3-copy replication, encrypted transfers, validation

Risk: Migration takes 6+ months (delays business)
→ Solution: Higher parallelism, additional resources, external help

Risk: Cost exceeds budget
→ Solution: Reduce scope, prioritize critical systems, phase further

Risk: Compliance audit fails (fines)
→ Solution: Hire compliance consultant, pre-audit, vendor SLA

Financial Metrics:
✓ Storage cost: Baseline $1M → Target $300K (70% reduction)
✓ Backup cost: Baseline $250K → Target $50K (80% reduction)
✓ Total IT storage budget: Baseline $1.25M → Target $350K (72% reduction)

Operational Metrics:
✓ Backup completion time: Baseline 4 hours → Target 30 minutes
✓ Restore time: Baseline 6-8 hours → Target < 15 minutes
✓ Storage provisioning time: Baseline 3 weeks → Target 5 minutes
✓ Compliance violations: Baseline 2-3/audit → Target 0

Reliability Metrics:
✓ Uptime: Baseline 99.0% → Target 99.99%
✓ RTO: Baseline 8+ hours → Target < 15 minutes
✓ RPO: Baseline 1 day → Target < 5 minutes
✓ Backup success rate: Baseline 95% → Target 100%

Team Metrics:
✓ Storage team size: Baseline 3 FTE → Target 0.5 FTE
✓ Time on automation: Baseline 20% → Target 80%
✓ Team satisfaction: Baseline 60% → Target 90%