The survey shows that most small Online Backup Service Providers service only Business computers (not Personal computers,) and store between five and fifty gigabytes of compressed data per computer. Because of compression and deduplication the amount of data stored on the Service Provider’s drives is roughly equivalent to one third to one half the size of the data on the customer’s computer.

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If you amortize the cost of the online backup software over the average life of each end user, you get to the real cost of the software. In the case of Windows Servers, you are paying $86 for the software (4 credits at $21.50 each). Over the life of the end user, this works out to a software cost of just barely over $2/month. That’s really cheap.

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