What is the Aegis Total Value Calculator?

The Aegis Total Value Calculator is a free interactive tool that models the operational and financial impact of Aegis co-managed infrastructure services. Users enter their device counts and vendor platforms to see transparent monthly pricing, projected 3-year savings, and ROI across four service layers: Performance Monitoring (PM), Incident Response (IR), Configuration Management (CM), and Software Lifecycle Management (LM).

What does co-managed mean? Is Aegis outsourcing?

Aegis is co-managed, not outsourced. Your team retains full control while Aegis becomes an extension of your operations — handling as much or as little as you need in each service area. The calculator includes three engagement levels (Full, Shared, and Supplemental) so you can model the investment at different levels of involvement.

What industry benchmarks does the calculator use?

The calculator uses published benchmarks from Gartner (network downtime costs at $5,600/minute for data center environments), Forrester Total Economic Impact studies (40–60% MTTR reduction from co-managed triage), Cisco 2023 Network Insights (43% of enterprise devices run firmware more than 12 months behind recommended releases), McKinsey (technical debt research), and IBM/Ponemon Institute (average breach cost of $4.45M). Users can toggle between Conservative (60% of benchmarks) and Aggressive (full benchmarks) estimation modes.

What infrastructure types does Aegis support?

Aegis supports four infrastructure domains: Network and Network Security (switches, WiFi, SD-WAN, firewalls), Cloud and Hybrid Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Virtualization, Compute, Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure, and Voice and CX Infrastructure. The calculator lets you select which domains are in scope and enter device counts with vendor-specific optimizations for platforms like Meraki, Arista, VeloCloud, and Juniper Mist.

What is Aegis PM and how does it save money?

Aegis PM (Performance Monitoring) replaces the need for in-house observability toolchain specialists and platform licensing. Most organizations invest heavily in monitoring tools but never fully leverage them. Aegis PM delivers the outcomes — proactive monitoring, alerting, and keep-the-lights-on operations — at a fraction of the cost of building and maintaining the capability in-house. Savings come from FTE labor avoidance, tool licensing elimination, and reduced missed-alert incidents.

What does Aegis LM cover in terms of patching?

Aegis LM (Software Lifecycle Management) proactively updates and standardizes infrastructure firmware across the managed fleet twice annually, covering platforms like Cisco IOS, NX-OS, Arista EOS, and firewall and server firmware. Aegis also responds to critical PSIRTs as they arise and tracks hardware end-of-life dates to plan upgrades before failures occur. Aegis LM does not cover hypervisor updates (except for Aegis Infrastructure Modernization clients) or guest operating systems.

Most IT teams are stretched thin, managing observability platforms they never fully leverage, running TAC cases that pull engineers off strategic work, and patching firmware on schedules that keep slipping. The cost isn't just the tools and the labor. It's the outages that weren't prevented, the changes that caused downtime, and the end-of-life devices that put your Cyber insurance at risk.

This calculator models the operational and financial impact of Aegis across four service layers:

Performance Monitoring
Incident Response
Configuration Management
Software Lifecycle Management

All modeled off of your actual infrastructure. Enter your device counts, select your vendors, and see transparent pricing alongside projected savings backed by industry benchmarks from Gartner, Forrester, and Cisco.

Aegis is co-managed, not outsourced. You keep control. We fill the gaps.

Aegis is co-managed, not outsourced. We become an extension of your team — handling as much or as little as you need. Adjust engagement level below if your team shares the workload.

What's in scope?

Select infrastructure domains — multiple selections supported

🌐 Network & Network Security ☁️ Cloud & Hybrid Cloud 🖥️ Virtualization, Compute, Storage / HCI 📞 Voice and CX Infrastructure

Your Environment

Network & Security

DC Switches

Vendor

Campus Switches

Vendor

WiFi Access Points

Vendor

SD-WAN / Routers

Vendor

Firewalls

Cloud & Hybrid

Cloud Resources

Provider

Compute, Storage & HCI

Servers

Storage Appliances

Voice & CX

Deployment model: On-Premises UCaaS / Cloud

On-prem voice adds 4 servers (voice compute nodes) to your managed server count automatically.

Voice / Telephony Devices PBX, SBC, session controllers, gateways

Phone Users Impacts CM pricing only (same weight as APs)

Contact Center / CX Agents

Other Managed Devices

Estimation: Conservative Aggressive

Co-Managed Engagement Level

Full Engagement
Aegis leads most tasks Shared
50/50 with your team Supplemental
Your team leads

Enter your environment details above and click Calculate Total Value to see results.

Total MRC —

3-Yr Savings —

3-Yr Investment —

ROI —

Derived Environment Metrics

Calculated from your infrastructure scope — sources cited

Total Managed Devices	—	Sum of all scoped devices
Est. Unplanned Outages / Year	—	Uptime Institute: ~1 per 75 endpoints
Est. Avg Outage Duration	—	Forrester median MTTR
Est. Changes / Month	—	ITIL: 4 per 100 devices/mo
FTE Equivalent	—	Industry staffing ratios
Fleet >12mo Out of Date	43%	Cisco 2023 Network Insights
Blended Downtime Cost	—	DC $5,600 · Branch $800 · Cloud $2,500

Monthly Recurring Cost Breakdown

Module	Description	MRC	Annual
Aegis PM	Performance Monitoring — Observability, monitoring & alerting	—	—
Aegis IR	Incident Response — TAC cases, circuit & hardware management	—	—
Aegis CM	Configuration Management — IaC pipelines or manual MACD	—	—
Aegis LM	Lifecycle Management — Firmware patching, PSIRT & EoL tracking	—	—
Total Monthly Recurring Cost		—	—

Aegis PM — Entitlement Engine

Raw Nodes—

Optimized——

Rate—

3-Yr Savings vs DIY—

Aegis PM Foundation

Performance Monitoring — Full observability outcomes without the DIY overhead

Annual Value—

FTE Offset—

Annual Cost—

Observability Staff Avoided	—	$0	—
Tool Licensing Avoided	—	$0	—
Integration Maintenance	$0	—	—
Missed-Alert Avoidance	$0	—	—

Aegis IR

Incident Response — Cradle-to-grave ticket management, OEM TAC coordination, hardware replacement

Annual Value—

MTTR Reduction—

Annual Cost—

War Room / TAC Case Labor	—	$0	—
MTTR-Driven Downtime Savings	—	$0	—
Brand & Business Disruption	$0	—	—

Aegis CM

Configuration Management — IaC/CI-CD or manual MACD, adapted to your automation maturity

Annual Value—

CM Devices—

Annual Cost—

Change-Induced Outage Reduction	—	$0	—
MACD Workload Offload	—	$0	—
Deployment Velocity (50–75%)	$0	—	—

Aegis LM

Software Lifecycle Management — Biannual firmware patching, PSIRT response, EoL tracking

Annual Value—

Patchable Fleet—

Annual Cost—

Biannual Patching Labor Avoided	—	$0	—
PSIRT Emergency Response	—	$0	—
Emergency Procurement Avoided	—	$0	—
Breach + Cyber Insurance Risk	$0	—	—

PM Only vs. Complete Stack

	PM Only	Full Stack
Total MRC	—	—
3-Year Savings	—	—
3-Year Investment	—	—
ROI	—	—
Net 3-Year Value	—	—

Full stack delivers — in additional 3-year savings over PM alone.

Methodology: Estimates use published industry benchmarks (Uptime Institute, Forrester, ITIL, Gartner, Cisco 2023, IBM/Ponemon). PM always at full rate; IR, CM, LM scale with engagement level. Aegis is co-managed — your team handles as much or as little as desired.

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Voice & CX

Co-Managed Engagement Level

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Derived Environment Metrics

Monthly Recurring Cost Breakdown

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