BuyerZone users' remote data backup requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their remote data backup purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of remote data backup systems other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: remote data backup purchasing requirements

"Additional locations (ZIP codes): 60622, 63141, 44143, 02135.Total: up to 30 computers."
-- Office Manager, Health Care, Atlanta, GA

"Servers and selected workstations will be backed up to SAN device. We are looking for offsite backup for data stored on SAN."
-- MIS/IT, Retail, Honolulu, HI

"128 bit encryption minimum, No human intervention (auto Launch as per pre-scheduling) Easy access from other location for recovery and redundant systems."
-- Partner/Principal, Computers - Hardware, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

"This is more to backup our home computers such as pictures, files, music, etc."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Yorba Linda, CA

"We are a small company that does not currently have a reliable backup system. We only need 50 GB of storage right now, and no more than 75-100GB in the near future. We are evaluating a multitude of options and would like a quote."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Construction/General Contracting, Boulder, CO

"I will have a camera system setup and will need to backup all footage (roughly 3 hours a week). And I will need the server, or at least the individual files to be linked to my current URL. The end result: Viewers of my page can scroll through links for previously catalogued footage and watch an embedded version of the video file on my site."
-- Consultant, Other Business Services, Macon, GA

"We have a 1TB Raid array that we are looking to backup and maybe some other databases. Just looking for a cost estimate and what kinda of media you backup."
-- MIS/IT, Government, Monterey, CA

"Need to be able to recover during a disaster to an offsite server with different hardware if necessary."
-- MIS/IT, Insurance, Chicago, IL

"Bit level backup - only changes made to a file backed up, not the entire file."
-- General Manager, Information Services, Dubois, PA

"We would also like to be able to immediately connect to our offsite servers if something were to happen at our office location, like if there was a fire."
-- MIS/IT, Financial Services, New York, NY

"Backup of one engineering file for critical client system docs. We have an onsite backup to a 2nd raid drive."
-- General Manager, Retail, Denver, CO

"Need to find good offsite storage for backup and remote office access. Needs to be very simple and quick. We are using FTP now."
-- Partner/Principal, Insurance, Encinitas, CA

"I need to backup all my privat photoes,and digital video etc."
-- Consultant, Consulting, Beijing, NY

"I am looking to be a reseller - offering online backup service to home users"
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Glendale, AZ

"I already have a Buffalo TeraStation backing up mu computers; I want to also do an offsite (over the web) backup of that."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, San Francisco, CA

"We have no IT support so this has to be easily implemented by people with limited computer capabilities."
-- Partner/Principal, Manufacturing, Mount Vernon, NY

"I'd like to be able to just back up my laptop files anytime I want to a secure remote location."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Consulting, Estero, FL

"Want to backup several web servers as well as SQL Databases and a file server exchange server is not implemented just yet."
-- MIS/IT, Other Business Services, Tampa, FL

"Simple backup of information from desktop and laptop for security purposes."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Consulting, Waukee, IA

"I'd like to back up my Winodw 2003 Server containing aboout 50GB of client data."
-- MIS/IT, Computers - Hardware, Corpus Christi, TX

"I want to be able to retrieve one computers backup to the other (desktop to mobile computer)."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Consulting, Dallas, TX

"We want to make backups of our backups from SQL Server DBs."
-- MIS/IT, Other Business Services, Alpharetta, GA

"Just want to make sure we have secure back-up of our company data."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Wholesale, San Juan Capistrano, CA

"Just backing up Dicom image files from a work station or maybe a server."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Health Care, Santa Rosa, CA

"I need to backup 5 gigs of zipped information within a 18 hour period. The data changes daily. I am using a service now but it is not completing the backup within the timeframe."
-- MIS/IT, Other Business Services, Indiana, PA

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