3 ways to stretch your backup budget.

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Lets consider this simple analogy…

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Jack and Karen are looking to buy a house.

Jack likes to do things himself and thinks he has an eye for detail that’ll help him choose the right place.

Karen on the other hand decides to hire a professional home inspector before making the final decision.

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This is Jack’s bedroom in year 2 of occupancy.

Jack spent a total of $10,000 on maintenance in 2 years .

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This is Karen’s bedroom in year 2 of occupancy.

Karen spent a total of $2,000 on maintenance in 2 years .

Stretching your backup budget: Option 1 Just as Karen called in her

expert home inspector…

You can allow the experts (Managed Service Providers) to help you with backup - even if your data resides in-house.

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Of course they would!

Would Karen and Jack be willing to pay more for a brand new house in the same location?

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Don’t treat all your data the same way!E.g. Young data is more valuable than older data and hence requires faster RTO/RPO objectives.

Establish different SLAs at different costs for different types of data (or even data sets)

Stretching your backup budget: Option 2

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Both Jack and Karen were able to afford a house and live a good lifestyle because they had the ability to pay on a monthly basis.

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Take the backup asset off your own books.

Switch to Opex by backing up to a service provider.

Pay monthly, based on usage.

Stretching your backup budget: Option 3

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