Hi Brian,

 

Is there a similar free software? J

 

Atenciosamente,

 

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Analista de Suporte

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De: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] Em nome de Brian J Greenberg
Enviada em: terça-feira, 29 de setembro de 2009 12:41
Para: Stafford, Geoff
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Assunto: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup cost calculator

 

Hi Geoff,

 

I think I may have what you need.  I started a boutique company that deals specifically with managing data storage and reporting on it in unique ways.  Our Storage Forecaster service sounds exactly like what you're looking for.  It specifically does storage consumption modeling of your backup environment.  We can provide the most accurate simulations of how your backup environment will behave and consume storage resources over any period of time.  Additionally, we can show you how much money you'd have to spend on tapes, tape storage slots, and disk if you use a VTL or DSU, etc. as well as strategies to reduce costs.  It's the best forecasting tool I've ever used for being able to accurately budget storage costs in a backup environment, that's why I wrote it.  Here is the link to a case study.  Drop me an email if you'd like to learn more.  I'd love to help.

 

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Brian J. Greenberg

General System Dynamics LLC

brian AT gsysd DOT com

http://gsysd.com

 

On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Stafford, Geoff wrote:

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I’m working on a little exercise to determine what it costs us to backup a TB of data (or whatever other size) and, being a computer geek and not a finance major, I’m struggling with it a little bit.  Given the amount of pieces to the puzzle from media servers, LAN vs SAN backups, physical tapes, virtual tapes, offsite storage/transportation, 3yr amortization/depreciation, etc it’s becoming quite a daunting task.  I’m actually trying to make this a valid number vs the Shot in the Dark™ method which I’ve usually seen done with these things.  Also, I really don’t want to have to spend money on another reporting tool to tell me how much I’m spending on backup plus I’m not really trying to turn this into a true chargeback model….more like budget justification and demonstrating cost savings for removing ‘legacy’ data.

 

Any help on the formulas you used or the costs you figure out would be greatly appreciated.

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