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Asigra Inc.: White paper: hardware cost implications of data
protection software; Asigra Provides Financial Evaluation of Hardware
Costs, Common Oversights that Blow the IT Budget, and how Costs can be
Reduced
(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
RDATE:16102007
LONDON -- Asigra today announced the availability of a White Paper it
has published on the subject of the hardware requirements and resulting
costs when investing in data protection software solutions.
The Paper, entitled "Hardware Cost Implications of Data Protection
Software; calculating TCO (total cost of ownership) without hardware
costs is a dangerous illusion", explores the different areas of a
business' hardware that can be affected by data protection software,
providing hypothetical scenarios of what these costs might be and how
they can be reduced.
Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra, observed: "Far too
often the financial evaluation of TCO ignores the hardware implications
of the data protection software. This one simple oversight is often
devastating to the IT budget and careers of the evaluation team,
particularly for companies with multiple offices, whereby remote
offices are now legally required to be included in a company's data
protection policies."
According to ESG, Yankee Group, Gartner, Taneja and others, as much as
50-80% of crucially important organisational data resides in the ROBO
(remote office/branch office). Unfortunately, the more offices that are
protected, the more hardware is affected and the higher the costs. The
vast majority of data protection software needs an agent to reside on
every application server and workstation being protected. Then there
are local data protection servers, which are required at every site,
duplicated data issues, and ROBO WAN considerations, whereby data
transport increases will require WAN optimisation equipment. It is
therefore more important than ever for businesses to carefully evaluate
their full data protection costs and look for ways in which to
anticipate and reduce them.
Following is a hypothetical scenario of the total hardware costs of
data protection software, which is used throughout the White Paper to
illustrate the level of hardware costs to expect in each area of a
business:
For a business that has 2,500 servers, 20,000 workstations and 80 ROBO
sites, over 3 years:
- Agent hardware costs = ~$3,000,000
- Local data protection server costs = ~$640,000
- Centralised data protection media server cost = ~$64,000
- ROBO data protection storage (one of the 3 below):
- ROBO burdened disk storage = ~$13,725,000
- ROBO de-duplicated burdened disk storage = ~$3,431,250
- ROBO burdened tape storage = ~$2,745,000
- Centralised data protection storage (one of the 3 below):
- Centralised burdened disk storage = ~$13,725,000
- Centralised de-duplicated burdened disk storage = ~$3,431,250
- Centralised burdened tape storage = ~$2,745,000
- ROBO WAN Optimisation = ~$930,000
This provides a total data protection hardware costs for NON-de-duped
disk of $32,020,000
OR
A total data protection hardware cost with de-duped disk of $11,496,500
OR
A total data protection hardware cost with tape storage of $10,124,000
However, the Asigra Televaulting software is completely agentless,
which eliminates the agent hardware costs. It also de-duplicates the
data, which typically reduces protection storage requirement by four
times. Given these advantages, a user can expect to reduce their total
cost of ownership by about eight times.
Using Asigra Televaulting, the hypothetical scenario would only have
costs totalling ~$4,135,250, which is much less than any other
equivalent data protection software solution.
About Asigra
Asigra is the award-winning leader in remote office/branch office
(ROBO) online backup and recovery for enterprises and managed backup
service providers. The company's flagship product, Televaulting, is
used by global enterprises in the financial, insurance, legal,
government, healthcare and retail industries with more than four
petabytes of data protected. Asigra technology is used by hundreds of
service providers worldwide who offer backup managed services to
companies ranging from SMBs to Global 2000 enterprises. The agentless
remote site backup and recovery solution provides simple, centralised
management of the data protection process while eliminating the capital
and operational expenses associated with agent-based solutions. Founded
in 1986, Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with partner
offices around the world.
CONTACT: Asigra
WWW: http://www.asigra.com
Rosaline Mills, PR Consultant, Bamboo PR Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)845 2577115
Tel: +44 (0)7951609706
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