Quantum ROI Tool

Quantum Corp. announced availability of a dynamic online tool that offers end users a realistic view of the economic benefits of adding the company’s deduplication technology to their backup process.

Leveraging results seen by surveyed Quantum DXi-Series customers and industry-specific analytics developed by IDC, the Quantum ROI Calculator enables IT managers to easily compute the potential ROI and calculate the potential cost savings from deduplication.

A new IDC white paper, sponsored by Quantum, quantifies the significant savings in storage media costs, increases in staff productivity, reduced downtime, and average payback that Quantum DXi-Series deduplication solutions can deliver. For example, over three years, Quantum deduplication customers saw an average return of $4.75 for every $1 invested.

Quantum’s new ROI Calculator is designed to enable users considering adopting deduplication technology to quantify its potential economic benefits. Based on the same research behind the IDC white paper, the ROI tool enables users to vividly see the impact deduplication could have on their own operations:

• IT managers can easily compute the potential ROI and evaluate the cost savings of investing in deduplication.
•  Users receive immediate results summarizing their organization’s expected ROI from adopting deduplication, visually illustrating the average annual storage environment cost savings, end user productivity savings and IT staff productivity optimization over a three-year period.
• Users can register to download a report of their results, which offers a deeper analysis showing specific areas where their organizations can improve the efficiency and economy of their data protection environment.

The IDC white paper, Demonstrating the Business Value of Quantum Deduplication for Data Protection (IDC document #231835), shows that customers using Quantum DXi deduplication solutions typically saw the systems pay for themselves with savings in just seven months. This helped drive the three-year ROI of nearly 5:1 noted above.

Additional findings in the IDC white paper include:

• Organizations were able to optimize data storage utilization, saving an average of 93 percent ($412,000 per year).
• IT storage staff productivity increased by 61 percent following the adoption of deduplication.
• By reducing downtime and restore time, and eliminating backup bleed over, operations yielded user productivity savings of more than 3,100 person-hours annually, for an average savings of $166,000 per year.

Jon Gacek, president and CEO, Quantum: "IDC’s report demonstrates the tremendous ROI Quantum deduplication solutions deliver for protecting ever-increasing data volumes in both physical and virtual environments. Customers of all types adopt our solutions because we provide a unique combination of industry-leading technology, expertise and value."