How to measure ROI when moving away from tape

Overview

Notoriously difficult to calculate, IT managers must nevertheless come up with an estimate for the ROI of almost any new IT project.

In the case of data security systems this can be doubly hard because the efficacy of the potential solution (and the consequences of failure) must be taken into account well into the future. While tape-based back-up may be cheaper up front, once governance, compliance and business continuity are brought into the equation, the cost calculations may yield a very different result.

This paper demonstrates a simple methodology for calculating the ROI of moving away from tape-based backup systems.