|
contents | business | |||||||
| Study: 'Vizioncore VRanger Pro Reduces Backup Costs' Vizioncore announces the findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on Vizioncore's behalf. Having conducted in-depth interviews with Schwan's, a packaged food supplier that has deployed Vizioncore's vRanger Pro, Forrester Consulting found the organization had reduced the overall cost of its backup and recovery, improved the performance of backups and reduced the number of failed backup application upgrades. Forrester Consulting's study yielded several key findings: - ROI of 210%: Based on Schwan's deployment of 570 virtual machines, the risk-adjusted ROI for that organization is 210%, with a breakeven point after deployment (payback period) of four months. - Cost Benefits of $394,710: Schwan's reduced the licensing and maintenance costs associated with its previous traditional backup solution, eliminated engineering effort resulting from backup failure and failed upgrades, reduced unexpected downtime and improved server time to recovery. Forrester Consulting calculates the present value of the total benefits to be $394,710. - Increased IT Staff Productivity: With Schwan's previous backup solution every system engineer was involved in the process, and upgrades to the system would have to take place during an available maintenance window – typically over a weekend. Failed upgrades forced the organization to postpone and delay other projects and exposed the production environment to data loss. vRanger Pro has eliminated upgrade failures and allowed four engineers to dedicate time to other projects, delivering an estimated IT staff productivity gain of $18,029. - Improved Server Recovery: As Schwan's virtual environment has matured the need for system level recovery has increased. The organization relies on MSMQ to handle system-to-system message queues for anything from credit card transactions to sales orders. Prior to the implementation of vRanger Pro it would take at least two days to recover systems; after the vRanger Pro implementation the recovery process is nearly instantaneous. The complete report can be viewed here. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |