With budgets and IT staff stretched to thinner levels, proving ROI of each project is critical. ROI has to be looked at as more than just how fast you can justify the initial cost of a project, but over the course of time, how does that project continue to save you money? That means the initial focus should be on making the IT staff more effective and giving them the tools they need to prove a project’s ROI. Tools like Tek-Tools and Apatar offer complete monitoring and reporting of storage management, data protection, and virtualization management in a single console.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/proving-the-roi