Vizioncore
Inc., the market leader in server virtualization management, today
announced the findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester
Consulting on Vizioncore’s behalf.
Having conducted in-depth interviews with Schwan’s, a leading packaged
food supplier that has deployed Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro, Forrester
Consulting found the organization had reduced the overall cost of its
backup and recovery, improved the performance of backups and reduced
the number of failed backup application upgrades. Forrester Consulting’s study yielded several key findings:
- ROI of 210%:
Based on Schwan’s deployment of 570 virtual machines, the risk-adjusted
ROI for that organization is 210%, with a breakeven point after
deployment (payback period) of four months.
- Cost Benefits of $394,710:
Schwan’s reduced the licensing and maintenance costs associated with
its previous traditional backup solution, eliminated engineering effort
resulting from backup failure and failed upgrades, reduced unexpected
downtime and improved server time to recovery. Forrester Consulting
calculates the present value of the total benefits to be $394,710.
- Increased IT Staff Productivity:
With Schwan’s previous backup solution every system engineer was
involved in the process, and upgrades to the system would have to take
place during an available maintenance window – typically over a
weekend. Failed upgrades forced the organization to postpone and delay
other projects and exposed the production environment to data loss.
vRanger Pro has eliminated upgrade failures and allowed four engineers
to dedicate time to other projects, delivering an estimated IT staff
productivity gain of $18,029.
- Improved Server Recovery:
As Schwan’s virtual environment has matured the need for system level
recovery has increased. The organization relies on MSMQ to handle
system-to-system message queues for anything from credit card
transactions to sales orders. Prior to the implementation of vRanger
Pro it would take at least two days to recover systems; after the
vRanger Pro implementation the recovery process is nearly instantaneous.
“As
the first company to bring to market a product specifically for virtual
machine backup and restore, we believe this Forrester study reflects
what Vizioncore has preached for a number of years – that our
technology, combined with server virtualization, offers a
cost-effective and reliable way of doing backup and restore,” said
Chris Akerberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of Vizioncore.
“The financial and operational benefits Vizioncore’s technology has
delivered to Schwan’s are tremendous, and based on feedback from many
of our 12,000 customers these kinds of improvements are being realized
by organizations of all sizes in every vertical market.”
The complete report can be viewed at http://www.vizioncore.com/Articles/CaseStudies/TEIofVizioncore_vRanger%20Pro_Final.pdf