Applying straightforward metrics to acquisition and operating costs over a five year period, Reine and Kahn provide total cost of ownership (TCO) results of both approaches as well as measuring the impact on the bottom line.

In this live Webcast, The Clipper Group reviews the associated costs for each approach to store data long term and determines the real world impact of each approach including:

• SATA disk requirements and costs
• Tape requirements and costs
• Energy costs of the two systems
• Tiered storage approaches
• Cost efficiency in addressing storage growth
• The impact of deduplication

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Dave Reine
Director, Enterprise Systems for The Clipper Group
David Reine is Director, Enterprise Systems for The Clipper Group. Mr. Reine specializes in enterprise servers, storage, and software, strategic business solutions, and trends in open systems architectures. He joined The Clipper Group after three decades in server and storage product marketing and program management for Groupe Bull, Zenith Data Systems, and Honeywell Information Systems. Mr. Reine earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University, and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Mike Kahn
Managing Director and a founder of The Clipper Group
Mike Kahn is a computer industry veteran, having spent more than three decades working on information technology. For the vendor community, Mr. Kahn specializes on strategic marketing issues, especially for new and costly technologies and services, competitive analysis and sales support. For the end-user community, he focuses on mission-critical information management decisions.