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The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise
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Industry expert Barb Goldworm, Focus Consulting, interviewed and documented the experiences of three enterprise customers who adopted a Data Domain deduplication storage solution within their data center. ROI, total savings and payback periods were documented. In this paper, Ms. Goldworm demonstrates how Data Domain deduplication storage offers proven cost savings and a strong, persuasive business case across a variety of business and technical scenarios.

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This paper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection. Three organizations in different industries are discussed as case studies. Each company was examined based on these four criteria. For each of these companies, operational issues were the driving force behind the purchases — the IT managers involved in the decisions wanted more reliable backups with less operator intervention. However, each company’s results show a substantial cost savings as well.

Deduplication, or the process of eliminating redundant data that is written to a storage device, is an enabling technology that has gained significant traction over the past several years. Deduplication storage for data protection delivers three primary benefits:

  • Shortens backup times through disk-based storage and deduplication rather than tape, allowing backups to fit within required backup windows
  • Makes data replication over a WAN realistic by reducing the amount of data transferred
  • Permits data to be retained within the data center for longer periods due to smaller data sizes.

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