It's very subjective to give an ROI on an antivirus. If I was making a piece of equipment and I implemented something that could show that instead of something that takes four hours to complete, now it takes three hours, I could tell you what my ROI would be.

In this instance it is very subjective. The only thing that you could do is take a look at how many security incidents you've had with a different product versus what you think you will have with going with Carbon Black, or assume you won't have any issues with Carbon Black versus how many issues you had with the other one, and then you can see how long it takes. 

Speaking from experience, for the former company that I worked for, we were hit with malware, a ransomware where some files were encrypted, but we were able to get them from the backup. However, attacks such as that have failed since we have had Carbon Black.

We have seen ROI. 

In terms of ROI from Carbon Black CB Defense, it's a little early to see it.

They're still evolving. I think they should reach there in a couple of years, I would say. I'm not really sure what is their roadmap, so that is one thing that I can say. But that should be something that would come up as an add-on or something like that which can be purchased or which can be given as a free component as well. I'm really not sure, but I think they might think in these lines, to bring about a better security control with the Carbon Black AV, to be specific.

I think the only advice that I would like to give is you need to really test it on different platforms. That's the only advice I can give you, because if you have a versatile environment, such as ours, while we do create a lot of in-house applications, we need to have an extensive testing done so that we don't end up creating a roadblock for other teams who are into software development and software testing. And those kind of lines. That might create a lot of issues with Carbon Black. If you test it prior, then probably you would have a better idea as to what you're getting into. And implementing it would be even more easier in that case. I think we did the right thing in terms of that because we know our environment better. If you know your environment better, you would do the right thing.

It has the ability for you to upload the scripts or anything you want to run anywhere. The capabilities of this tool are almost limitless. That is why Carbon Black is a leader. You can run whatever script you want by uploading it to the tool. This is a very, very comprehensive feature.

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint generates a good return on investment regarding environment protection.

It's a good return on investment. The single point of view is very important for the client.

We noticed an ROI after about six months of working with the solution.

Previous to Carbon Black, we had a malware attack that cost us a significant amount of money. We haven't had one since, and therefore, our return on investment has been significant.

I've never calculated an ROI on it.