The Enterprise Backup Software Cost Trap Explained

A backup and recovery system designed around backup software installed on each of the endpoints being protected has fundamental cost disadvantage. If the number of endpoints grows, then more licenses will be needed to be bought, and the cost for those licenses increases linearly.
 
This Offsite Backup ROI Calculator can help show how the cost of backup software grows as your business grows. The initial figure is based on the cost of widely used backup software, which is $600 per endpoint. Often there is additional cost if you are backing up special data types such as SQL or Exchange. This cost is shown in cell B37 of the “ROI Calc” worksheet. The total backup software cost per year is shown in cell B22 of the “ROI” sheet and also includes an additional 20% of the software license cost as a support expense.
 
The beauty of the calculator is that you can change these figures to the exact amount you’re paying to make the final cost comparison as accurate as possible.
 

In the default calculation that you’ll see when you open the spreadsheet, the environment consists of 20 server (or executive laptop) endpoints, with 2TB of total data. Using this case as an example, the total cost of 1-year for backup software and support would be $14,400 – or 25% of the total backup cost of $56,000.
 
Please go ahead and test the offsite backup ROI calculator to see how your existing backup software expenses stack up.
 
Of course, it should be mentioned that Zetta’s service has no software licensing fees and the ZettaMirror agent can be deployed on as many endpoints as necessary. You’ll only ever pay for the amount of data you’re backing up.

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