How to Get Real ROI from Backups: Beyond Disaster Recovery
Backup Central, Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Getting meaningful ROI from your backups has been the holy grail of data protection for decades. For too long, backup systems have been viewed as necessary evils - expensive insurance policies that drain budgets without delivering tangible returns until disaster strikes.
But what if your backup infrastructure could provide measurable business value beyond disaster recovery? Modern backup systems offer unprecedented opportunities to achieve real ROI from backups through innovative use cases that were simply impossible with legacy tape-based solutions.
This blog post summarizes the main points of my latest podcast episode.