Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. In many ways, data protection has unsettling similarities to insurance: it’s required, it’s expensive, and one hopes never to need it. And, like insurance, one’s objective is to have enough but not too much. To that extent, there is an inevitable cost/benefit business case analysis to any data protection purchase.
In evaluating the business case for data protection products, four primary criteria are used:
Purchases avoided
Direct savings
Labor savings
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
This paper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection.
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