Primary storage costs based on the industry average cost of storage $/TB/year     ~  $3300/TB/year

   Cost of backup storage and software per $/TB/year                                                        ~  $3000/TB/year

   Percentage of legacy static and rarely accessed data                                                                        ~   80%

   Site replication costs,  bandwidth and replication software cost /site                                            ~  $8000 per site/year

   Adjust the annual data growth                                                                                                                         ~   20% /year  (default)

   Personnel costs to manage data, storage and backup, more data means more costs           ~  $1000 per TB/year

                                           *** The savings calculations are based on a 3 year term with 80% data archived ***