People who watch the numbers in corporate offices will go for this: A data
center manager now can utilize a free online service to determine storage
capital cost savings due to deduplication and have the dollars-saved
information ready on demand if asked for it.
Storage management and disaster recovery provider Acronis on July 15 made
available a
new calculator that is designed to estimate the storage savings an
organization could obtain using deduplication to improve storage capacities.
The calculator asks users for three pieces of information: the number of
servers and workstations being backed up, the data change rate, and the overall
cost of storage hardware and software. Based on this information, users can
obtain accurate reports on how much storage space would be saved through
deduplication, the dollar savings and the percentage of savings, Acronis Senior
Director of Marketing Bob Thaler told eWEEK.
Acronis also has made available a second calculator, one that charts ROI for
more general data center budget items, such as staffing, power and cooling, and
resources.
"IT managers, if they're not looking specifically for ROI in storage
hardware and software or dedupe, but they are looking for ROI for disaster
recovery or for overall ROI for time, money, people and resources, they're both
available free on our Website," Thaler said.
"Secondly, if customers want to use it internally, or attach it to an e-mail
and send it to a colleague and say, 'Take a look at this, it's a good starting
point for assessing how we can save money,' we can zip it up [in a Zip file]
and make it a stand-alone module they can run on their own desktops,"
Thaler said.
For example, a customer with 10 servers and 2TB of data that changes 5 percent
per day and is kept for four weeks will save about $20,000 in storage costs
annually, Thaler said.
Acronis' latest product, Backup & Recovery 10, was
released July 9.
Storage management provider Aptare offers a freely downloadable, informative
whitepaper on storage ROI at this Website.
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