Storage economics

Backup storage consolidation: When does it save money?

Consolidating several backup repositories onto one platform is usually justified before it is modeled. Fewer support contracts, less rack ...

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Storage economics

Backup egress costs: Estimate a full-site restore

Most teams using cloud backup storage have never calculated what a full-site restore would cost to pull back. The monthly storage bill is ...

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Storage economics

Backup deduplication ratios: What to verify in a quote

A deduplication ratio in a quote reads like a property of the product, the way rack units and drive slots are properties. It is not. It is ...

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Storage economics

Backup compression: Why savings vary by workload

Compression is one of the few things in a backup platform that behaves predictably, as long as the data type is known. The trouble is that ...

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Storage economics

Small IT teams: Count backup administration costs

Every backup comparison has rows for capacity, support and maintenance, and none for the person who runs it. In a team of three or four ...

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Storage economics

Backup storage TCO: Appliance vs. software-defined object storage

Most backup storage decisions are still made on a single number: the quoted price per terabyte on the day of purchase. That number is easy ...

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