Simon Says – Musings of a Technology CTO

Last week, as many of you may know, was the inaugural McAfee user conference, snappily titled “Focus 2008.” At Focus, I had the honor of participating on one of the panels alongside some of our valued customers.

The subject of the panel was “Is it possible to get ROI on data protection projects?” I’ll cut to the chase and let you know that the answer we and the audience arrived at was no, it’s not possible to predict or demonstrate ROI in advance of the project. BUT, it’s possible to give some indications of value, and certainly it’s possible to make some ROI estimations during and after implementation. Read more…