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How does ROI compare with tapes and a LeapServ?
BitLeap® Beats Tapes, Dollar for Dollar!
BitLeap’s automatic backup solution is more affordable than traditional physical media backup plans like tapes. Before you even factor in the cost of installing and setting up a tape device, the initial hardware cost alone can often be almost twice as much as a LeapServ.
After you have purchased a tape backup drive or library system, you will need to replace your data tapes and your cleaning tape every year. The graph on the right shows this cost for a typical 10 tape rotation system using approximately $50 tapes to backup up to 20GB of data. This cost graph includes only a mere $1 per business day of the year (240 total days) for the labor to maintain your tape system. Typical tape backup plans will require anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour a day of maintenance just to conduct your backups. This does not include additional manual labor involved when data needs to be restored or the tape system must be cleaned.
Affordable Scalability
What’s more, if your data backup needs grow in the future, a tape solution requires you to buy all new equipment that can handle larger volume tapes. On the other hand with BitLeap, you simply upgrade your service. Let’s say your backup needs grow from 20GB to up to 50GB in 2007.
Look how the increased costs for backing up more data with BitLeap gradually go up in comparison to the large second capital expenditures with a traditional tape-based system.
Comparing Apples to
Oranges
It is great that BitLeap’s backup system is more affordable than most properly maintained tape-based backup solutions, however, that is not the real point. BitLeap’s backup system offers so much more value and service than a tape-based system that you are indeed comparing apples to oranges. Just read through the Tape vs. LeapServ™ or the Why not use a tape backup system FAQs to see all of these differences. Most of all it is service, BitLeap makes sure that your backups are done correctly all of the time and provides you with someone to call for help when you need to do a restore. Tape-based systems leave you on your own to manage and support your important data backups.
Bandwidth Efficiency
You do not need a T1 to automatically backup your data!
Data transfers to your offsite storage can run continuously as files on your network storage are changed or on a schedule. Either way, you only transfer the files or the parts of files that have changed. This backup technique allows you to keep your data up to date offsite with relatively small amounts of bandwidth.
BitLeap’s offsite backup service can work on almost any broadband connection, from DSL to Cable. Since most of the data on file servers does not change on a daily basis, many gigabytes of data can be kept in sync without diminishing your office’s bandwidth at all.
Download Any File Version
Time is money, BitLeap helps you save both by giving you instant access to previous file versions through a secure website.
Have you ever worked on one file, such as a presentation, over the course of several days or weeks? If you have, you probably know the frustration of making a change and wishing you could go back and get one of your previous versions. Doing this is easy with BitLeap’s backup system.
All of the versions of your files are automatically backed up and available for download. It is easy to see when the file changed and how many different versions you have been through.
To reclaim work you have done in a previous version, simply download it or restore it. Maybe you need to take parts of a previous file version and combine them with the current version, go ahead - it is your data. There is no need to redo work you have already backed up; that saves money!
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