New Feature Spotlight: AI-Powered Storage Utilization Forecasting

As modern enterprises continue to expand their IT infrastructure, enterprise storage teams increasingly find themselves challenged by large and complex data environments.

Data is often stored across NAS devices, SANs, object storage, cloud platforms, and even hyperconverged solutions. As users and business processes across an organization create more and more data, storage fills up—sometimes faster than storage teams can respond. This can cause disruptions to business operations, inflated costs due to reactive purchases, or even unplanned outages and data loss.

Bocada’s newest AI-powered capability helps organizations proactively mitigate these storage issues well before they occur.

 

📈 Utilization Forecasting: Visibility into the Future

With Bocada’s new AI-Powered Storage Utilization Forecasting, users can analyze historical utilization trends for any monitored storage asset and project future consumption patterns.

 

Bocada’s AI model automatically forecasts:

• Future storage usage based on past trends and current growth rates
• Estimated days until a storage system will hit full capacity
• The fastest-growing volumes or shares, helping identify areas of sprawl or inefficiency

This forecasting helps storage teams stop guessing and start planning with precision.

 

🛡️ Stay Proactive & Prevent Disruptions

Running out of storage space isn’t just inconvenient—it can be catastrophic.

 

With Bocada’s AI-generated forecasts:

• Storage teams can plan expansion efforts ahead of time
• Operations teams can avoid last-minute procurement or provisioning delays
• IT leaders can ensure that critical applications remain uninterrupted

Whether it’s scaling existing capacity, archiving infrequently accessed data, or tiering storage to lower-cost options, Bocada gives teams the insight they need to stay ahead of constraints.

 

💰 Save on Storage Costs

Over-provisioning to “play it safe” is expensive. But under-provisioning is risky.

 

Bocada’s forecasting delivers the balance needed to:

• Eliminate unnecessary hardware or cloud storage purchases
• Identify stale or zombie data inflating storage use
• Optimize data tiering strategies to reduce reliance on costly high-performance storage

Forecasts can also feed into broader budgeting and procurement planning, giving storage and finance teams a shared view of future needs.

 

🚨 Forecast-Based Alerts & Auto-Remediation

Bocada pairs its forecasting with powerful automation features:

• Real-time alerts when utilization exceeds configurable thresholds
• Predictive alerts “X” days before a device is projected to reach capacity
• Automated ticket creation in ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow to initiate storage remediation workflows

This turns Bocada from a passive monitoring solution into an active driver of IT service continuity and incident prevention.

 

Available Now in Bocada Enterprise’s Storage Module

AI-powered storage utilization forecasting is available in Bocada Enterprise as part of the Storage Module.

The Storage module supports data collections and detailed storage reporting for storage devices/systems such as NetApp, Data Domain (Dell), Dell PowerScale OneFS, Dell Unity, Cohesity, VAST, and StoreOnce – as well as for cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.

Storage teams today aren’t just managing data—they’re ensuring business agility and resilience. Bocada’s forecasting capabilities help storage professionals and IT leaders make smarter, faster, and more cost-effective decisions.

📅 Request a demo today to see how Bocada Enterprise brings AI-powered intelligence to your storage and backup operations.