ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming Volume 3

System-managed storage

As your business expands, so does your need for storage to hold your applications and data, and so does the cost of managing that storage. Storage cost includes more than the price of the hardware, with the highest cost being the people needed to perform storage management tasks.

If your business requires transaction systems, the batch window can also be a high cost. Additionally, you must pay for staff to install, monitor, and operate your storage hardware devices, for electrical power to keep each piece of storage hardware ...