Explain the need to archive data (offsite) like I work in finance
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The title is what is important. Just pretend I'm the lead accounting person for any organization you work for and the business has a bad practice of archiving data.
They keep up on it occasionally, like a pig flying. . . (almost never).
Explain the need to archive data (offsite) like I work in finance.
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It's purely about money. Start by figuring out the $/GB to store data live. Then figure out the $/GB to archive data somewhere. Then figure out the amount of data that is eligible for archiving. And that's your number for the finance department.
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@scottalanmiller the math is the easy part, the emotional response to "we have to delete stuff" part is kind of the point I'm trying to make the case for.
$0.005/Gb for archived $0.024/gb Live times all data total.
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@dustinb3403 said in Explain the need to archive data (offsite) like I work in finance:
@scottalanmiller the math is the easy part, the emotional response to "we have to delete stuff" part is kind of the point I'm trying to make the case for.
The money takes care of that. Financial people shouldn't show emotion, their job is money. If they are emotional finance people, your options from IT are few and mostly pointless.
But really, once you show them the numbers, your caring stops there. So that's all that you present. IT should never "persuade" finance to do their jobs well.
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How many boxes does it take to store a years worth of AP/AR/ Payroll etc. x $ per sqft. x (years) needed to keep.
Last time I had to work with this sort of thing, the Finance Department had a 10x10 room with shelves for just 1 years worth of files,.. active year was in in 7 4-drawer file cabinets.
years 3-7 were kept offsite in a paid storage... and year 8 was destroyed. ...
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@scottalanmiller said in Explain the need to archive data (offsite) like I work in finance:
@dustinb3403 said in Explain the need to archive data (offsite) like I work in finance:
@scottalanmiller the math is the easy part, the emotional response to "we have to delete stuff" part is kind of the point I'm trying to make the case for.
The money takes care of that. Financial people shouldn't show emotion, their job is money. If they are emotional finance people, your options from IT are few and mostly pointless.
But really, once you show them the numbers, your caring stops there. So that's all that you present. IT should never "persuade" finance to do their jobs well.
I'm in this exact boat for a new printer fleet. I've already have a first bid that will save us $200/m replacing 8 MFPs with brand new units. But I think we can do better.
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I realize I wasn't clear before. The emotional response is most often from others, not the finance person.
