We have implemented VPLEX Local in two different locations. Now the customer wants to switch into VPLEX Metro, but expects us to provide him with TCO/ROI analysis.
I've not done this but try to measure the outage costs. Even then you don't have it all covered but it's a start.
The objects of the business impacts where you can't put a price on
Legal/Regulatory
Life-threatening issues in hospitals, for example
Reputation
And so on…
Look into risk assessment too. This should clarify some things as wel. A risk assessment is an important step in protecting the business. It determines various natural or man-made threaths that can disrupt processes in the organization and its facillities. A common misconception is that most threats to continuity are a result of natural disaster. Statistically, these threats account for less than 1% of IT service unavailability. That leaves us with 99% attributable to other threats. It's more important that you protect yourself against man-made threats. Focus on those too
Be aware VPLEX is an Active - Active environment. For example: If at one site a database corruption occur it is synchronized to the other site as wel. The power of RecoverPoint is you can go back to whatever your retention policy is. Same example as above but you can choose till which point in time you would go back too. This can be minutes hours and so on. So, VPLEX is mainly for Site failovers and therefore Disaster Recovery while RecoverPoint is more a restore function
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Posted November 21st, 2013 05:00
I've not done this but try to measure the outage costs. Even then you don't have it all covered but it's a start.
The objects of the business impacts where you can't put a price on
Legal/Regulatory
Life-threatening issues in hospitals, for example
Reputation
And so on…
Look into risk assessment too. This should clarify some things as wel. A risk assessment is an important step in protecting the business. It determines various natural or man-made threaths that can disrupt processes in the organization and its facillities. A common misconception is that most threats to continuity are a result of natural disaster. Statistically, these threats account for less than 1% of IT service unavailability. That leaves us with 99% attributable to other threats. It's more important that you protect yourself against man-made threats. Focus on those too