Building a business case for online data protection services

Overview

This White Paper helps managers to build a compelling business case for deploying online data protection services rather than continuing current methods of backup and recovery

This White Paper helps managers to build a compelling business case for deploying online data protection services rather than continuing current methods of backup and recovery – or implementing other onsite alternatives.

In order to show the profitability of reducing operational costs through an investment in Software as a Service (SaaS) backup and recovery, an ROI analysis must:

• Present the changing landscape of business data management, and the challenges this presents for protecting desktops and laptops throughout an organization
• Identify all the costs of current methods (and other alternatives) of data protection
• Estimate the cost savings of online data protection over both current and alternative methods

This paper also highlights additional soft benefi ts; these are diffi cult to quantify yet have very real value to the corporation in evaluating any data protection strategy. Finally, included in this paper is a checklist of cost categories for comparing current methods of savings for adopting an online data protection service.