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Lady Backup continues with Part 2 in looking at a recent IDC analysis that shows the business benefits from backup transformation with EMC.
As we reviewed in Part 1, there is a clear financial benefit from modernizing your dated backup transformation with EMC. In fact, companies in a recent analysis from IDC saw a 5-month payback from their investment into EMC.
In total, IDC shows a reduction of nearly $3 million per year in benefit to the business, measured in in three key areas:
- Hard costs: More than half, or $1.7 million in annual savings, came from reducing backup transformation costs. This includes $627,000 from eliminating tape-related costs and $909,000 from reducing backup storage capacity requirements with deduplication.
- IT productivity improvements. The IT team is a big winner in this transformation backup. On average, 37 hours per week were spent on backup and recovery related issues, including lengthy restores, restarting failed backups, and physically managing tape. After backup transformation, 9 hours are spent per week on backup and recovery related tasks, a 75% improvement.
- End user productivity improvements. In the “before” scenario, users spent an average of 54 hours per year waiting for recoveries. Doesn’t sound like a lot? That’s more than a work week of annual productivity wasted. Now, they wait only a matter of minutes – 13 minutes on average in an entire year, according to IDC.
I’ve included a graphic to show you the distribution in annual cost savings. Click on the Hyperlink below to access the graphic:
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What does this tell us? It says that a modern backup infrastructure provides better service to the business at less cost.
In the final part, we’ll look at what companies changed in their backup environment.
All of the details about this study can be found on a dedicated Web page. And we invite you to join the conversation using #IDCROI. LB
Click here to view first part of this series of articles.
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