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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Fusion
Created by Guest
Created on May 12, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system.

being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monitored by Fusion Data Catalog would allow for Systems Administration / operation administration teams to provide the ability to show back to users / departments how much data they are storing with the organisation, and what the cost (total or per month) that that storage was incurring.  This would help with user management of the amounts of data stored, as well as the monitoring and reporting requirements for many customers who are required to provide this level of reporting today. 

At present this capability can only be provided by exporting all the data as an excel file, and then manually manipulating the output to add in additional custom fields that allow for the cost per storage tier to be manually added, after adding the cost per tier, custom formulas then need to be created in the excel file to calculate the actual costs incurred per user / group.

Idea priority High

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