Storage economics

Usable backup capacity: Compare quotes on equal terms

Three quotes for the same backup repository arrive with three different capacity figures, and none of them mean the same thing. One states ...

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Storage economics

Immutable retention costs: Why deleted jobs use space

A backup job is deleted after a workload is decommissioned, and the capacity chart does not move. The restore points that job produced are ...

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Storage economics

Backup retention costs: What another year really adds

A request to extend backup retention from one year to two is usually costed by doubling something. The instinct is understandable, since ...

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Storage economics

Cloud vs. on-prem backup: Price the recovery scenario

Cloud and on-premises backup storage are almost always compared on what it costs to keep data: a price per terabyte per month against a ...

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Storage economics

Backup storage costs: Build a three-year budget

A three year backup storage budget that consists of one purchase price and two years of silence will be wrong, and the error usually ...

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Storage economics

Backup storage sizing: Budget for growth and churn

A first pass at backup storage sizing produces a number that is correct for the estate as it stands today. The platform, though, is bought ...

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Storage economics

Backup storage refresh: Expand or replace?

A backup storage refresh rarely announces itself as an architecture decision. It arrives as a support renewal quote with a date on it, and ...

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Storage economics

Backup storage procurement: Compare complete solutions

Three quotes arrive for backup storage and each one prices something slightly different. One states raw capacity, another states capacity ...

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Storage economics

Backup storage power and rack costs: What to include

Two backup storage options are compared on hardware and software, a decision is taken, and the equipment arrives in a room somebody else ...

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Storage economics

Backup storage headroom: How much should you budget?

Headroom on a backup repository is usually a round proportion, carried over from the last platform or from whatever the previous ...

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