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It’s funny how storage management can make a senior IT administrator nostalgic for the old days. Even before the Internet unleashed a tidal wave of data across the enterprise. We’re talking far back, through the mists of time…to the days of the mainframe. When usage statistics were part and parcel of the operating system, enabling IT departments to implement an internal billing system that forced users and/or departments to finance the provisioning of the IT resources they use.

We at Northern don’t see why we – or you – should let progress stand in the way of a good idea. Which is why we’ve re-introduced “chargeback” in a Windows environment.

Northern Storage Chargeback, a new addition to Northern Storage Suite (available as a standalone or integrated into the suite), is based on a simple, yet elegant idea: make people pay for the storage resources they use. Whether it is configured to charge departments for increments of storage real estate above a certain threshold or places a premium on the types of data stored, Northern Storage Chargeback holds users directly accountable for their storage. Now that careless usage comes at a price, everyone is invested in efficient and economical use of storage resources.

Read more about Northern Storage Chargeback in this issue of Time to Manage. Don’t hesitate to download your free 30-day eval version here to verify how easy the Northern Storage Chargeback software is to implement, even if your organization already is using a charge-back model.

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NORTHERN STORAGE SUITE INTEGRATES NEW CHARGEBACK MODULE Northern Storage Chargeback provides an efficient means of segmenting, auditing and "invoicing" disk space usage.
THE CONCEPT AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF A SYSTEM OF INTERNAL BILLING An in-depth look at the reasons behind why many organizations have taken the decision to implement a system of internal billing.
TALKING WITH... PAT BUSH This installment of the "Talking With-series" is a real life account of the challenges of managing print and disk resources spanning 19 schools.

FIVE STEPS TO A BETTER SOFTWARE STRATEGY
While a vendor may urge an enterprise to buy all of its software from one source to achieve an integrated IT infrastructure, that scenario is an idealized one, according to IDC research.

MICROSOFT CONFIDENT BOUNTIES WILL NAB VIRUS WRITERS
A trio of bounties Microsoft Corp. placed on the heads of virus writers has generated a variety of investigative leads.

CAN THE U.S. STAY ON TOP IN PROGRAMMING?
Programming jobs are heading overseas by the thousands. Is there a way for the U.S. to stay on top?

79 percent voted NO to the above question.

New SysAdmin question of the week:
"Ever wished you could automate your mundane storage tasks?"

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