In this economy, maximizing what you have and cost justifying what you need now becomes a much sought-after skill. The IT budget and the storage budget along with it are not growing in many organizations. There are excellent, low cost solutions available that can optimize the file servers or NAS systems that host this data. These technologies work either in-line or as a post process to compress and/or deduplicate primary storage by as much as 90% or more. In our next entry we will look at what you can do to optimize block based storage to help better invest budget dollars.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/maximizing-the-storage-budget—capacity-optimization