Based on strategic plans regarding green initiatives, an IT department is considering server
consolidation in its data centers. Which set of elements should be included in the business value
analysis to maximize the ROI for such an initiative?

A company’s IT department is comparing two technology proposals. Option 1 would retain legacy
equipment while Option 2 would replace the existing equipment with a new one.
Option 1:
Total operation costs = $400,000 per year
Annual storage requirements = $100,000 per year
Option 2:
Initial investment = $1,250,000
Recurring annual operation costs = $150,000 per year
Annual storage requirements = $100,000 per year
The company’s write-off costs for the legacy equipment is $50,000. As a business analyst using a
TCO analysis, which option would you recommend?

A company has estimated a cost of $220,000 to build its new data center. The new data center will
serve an additional 20,000 clients for which the company will gain $30,000 per month. In addition,
the company has agreed to spend $1,000 every month in support costs.
In order to achieve a break-even point, what is the minimum time period the data center must be
operational?

A company has estimated a cost of $240,000 to build its new data center. The new data center will
serve an additional 20,000 clients for which the company will gain $35,000 per month. In addition,
the company has agreed to spend $2,000 every month in support costs.
In order to achieve a break-even point, what is the minimum time period the data center must be
operational?

After careful consideration, a company has decided to implement a data deduplication solution
within its backup environment. Implementing the data deduplication solution will require the
following investment:
1. License costs = $150,000
2. Other one-time costs (for example, installation charges) = $60,000
Continuing as is, storage requirement projections over the next three years would total 75 TB.
Employing deduplication will allow the storage requirements to be reduced to 45 TB. The cost of
storage is $50,000 per TB.
What is the return on investment (ROI) percentage for this project?

Which critical success factors need to be addressed in a business value analysis?

An organization wants to deploy a centralized backup and data deduplication for its backup
environment. Currently, the organization is backing up data locally at offices located at dispersed
locations. In addition, they are concerned about the backup window size and data security with a
centralized backup.
To address the organization’s needs and concerns, which EMC deduplication product would you
recommend?

What is a key advantage of server configuration backups in a multi-vendor server environment?

Why is the presence of root hash significant in the sub-file deduplication process?

A company performs its backup of production data to a tape at a remote vault over an FCIP
network. However, the backup takes a long time to complete.
What is your recommendation to improve the backup time?