Deduplication calculator

Acronis has unveiled an online calculator to estimate the storage savings an organisation can achieve using the deduplication technology of Backup & Recovery 10 to cut storage requirements.

The calculator prompts the user for the number of servers and workstations being backed up, the data change rate and the cost of data storage. Based on the information, the user can get estimates of the storage space savings, the storage cost savings and the percentage of savings through deduplication.

As an example, a user with 10 servers and 2 TB of data that changes 5% a day and is kept for four weeks will save about $25,000 in storage costs annually.

The company has expanded its disk imaging and bare-metal restore technology to meet the needs of both small and large organisations through a user interface, improved virtualisation support, enhanced operation manageability and increased scalability.