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3 ways to stretch your backup budget
Nov 28, 2014
We explore 3 ways that organizations can get more out of their backup budgets, using simple analogies.
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3 ways to stretch your backup budget.
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Lets consider this simple analogy…
…because we want you to get a better deal.
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Jack and Karen are looking to buy a house.
Jack likes to do things himself and thinks he has an eye for detail that’ll help him choose the right place.
Karen on the other hand decides to hire a professional home inspector before making the final decision.
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This is Jack’s bedroom in year 2 of occupancy.
Jack spent a total of $10,000 on maintenance in 2 years .
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This is Karen’s bedroom in year 2 of occupancy.
Karen spent a total of $2,000 on maintenance in 2 years .
Stretching your backup budget: Option 1 Just as Karen called in her
expert home inspector…
You can allow the experts (Managed Service Providers) to help you with backup - even if your data resides in-house.
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Of course they would!
Would Karen and Jack be willing to pay more for a brand new house in the same location?
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Don’t treat all your data the same way!E.g. Young data is more valuable than older data and hence requires faster RTO/RPO objectives.
Establish different SLAs at different costs for different types of data (or even data sets)
Stretching your backup budget: Option 2
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Both Jack and Karen were able to afford a house and live a good lifestyle because they had the ability to pay on a monthly basis.
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Take the backup asset off your own books.
Switch to Opex by backing up to a service provider.
Pay monthly, based on usage.
Stretching your backup budget: Option 3
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