Comparing cost of service
Posted By jsklavounos
Hello again, Here’s something to think about. When you compare the price of our LiveVault service against the cost of your existing solution there are some things to keep in mind.
1. Time: Calculate the cost of the time it takes to change tapes, take them offsite and to confirm the tape’s contents.
2. Equipment: This cost includes the tape drive, software, and tapes. Not to mention the cost of your technical services personnel maintaining the software and hardware. There is no hardware or software cost for National Data Protect’s LiveVault - only the service itself.
3. Recoverability: It’s hard to put a price on this, but how much is it worth to you that your data is guaranteed retrievable vs. the up to 50% failure rate of tapes?
4. Versioning: With tapes, you can most commonly get back up to 10 versions (based on two - one week tape rotation). With our LiveVault service, you can retrieve as many as 136 versions on a 30 day retention plan.
When comparing these costs you will see that is really makes sense to go with a fully automated, secure, and guaranteed solution such as National Data Protect’s LiveVault service.
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