Study: Vizioncore vRanger Pro Reduces Backup Costs and Improves Effectiveness

By VSM News Staff
published: Tuesday, October 14 2008

Total Economic ImpactTM study identifies operational benefits and cost savings of over $390,000 for Vizioncore customer Schwan's.

Buffalo Grove, IL, October 13th, 2008 - 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

About Vizioncore Inc.

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Buffalo Grove, IL, Vizioncore Inc. is a fully owned subsidiary of Quest Software. The company has operations in North America, EMEA, Asia and Australia. Vizioncore's products provide server virtualization management solutions that help customers safeguard and optimize their IT systems while allowing them to extract the maximum return on their investment in virtualization. Vizioncore's products are built from the ground up to support virtual environments with none of the legacy encumbrances of products built for the physical servers. Over 12,000 organizations around the world, from SMBs to large-scale enterprises, use Vizioncore's products. Vizioncore operates independently and distributes its products through an extended partner network of 2,200 value-added resellers worldwide.  For more information please visit www.vizioncore.com.