Cloud-based Disaster Recovery Delivers Strong ROI

Help At Home, a company delivers onsite services to shut-ins, was looking at a bill of $190,000 over three years to convert one of its locations to a disaster recovery site. Instead, it's using cloud-based services.

"The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.

Offloading the expense of buying your own hardware, software and networking capabilities for use during a prolonged outage, as well as that of the ongoing maintenance of duplicate infrastructure, can produce measurable savings, says Eric Heidrich, director of IT at Help At Home. He expects to save $150,000 over three years, mainly by cost avoidance."