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

"We have many computers in multiple states that need backing up."
-- CFO, Financial Services, Charlotte, NC

"We would like to store 5TB of data with uninterupted access to that data store. We would rely on the vendor to backup the 5TB as well."
-- MIS/IT, Education, Cambridge, MA

"All people will be working from their own homes in CT and then there will also be a formal office space in the near future. Data will need to be backed up from all sites -- or sent to one repository and then backed up from a single location."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Non-Profit, Wallingford, CT

"I want to be able to save multiple versions of the same files."
-- Engineer/Programmer, Manufacturing, Saint Marys, PA

"I need to format hard drive and reinstall windows xp."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Albuquerque, NM

"Backup of Windows Server 2008 running Windows SharePoint services and SQL Server 2005."
-- MIS/IT, Education, Cedar Rapids, IA

"We have about a dozen PCs in our office that currently backup all their important data to a network access drive. This drive also contains important shared information for our company. We wish to backup this drive daily. The drive currently hold about 40 GB of data."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Reston, VA

"I have a desktop and a laptop that together have approximately 90 GB of programs, files, pictures and music. I use it for both personal use and 2 home based businesses."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Wholesale, La Quinta, CA

"No special requirements; only standard hot backup support services for a typical data center."
-- Consultant, Consulting, Herndon, VA

"Fast file-level backups and restores. Maybe a small company archive section to store corporate stuff. Thanks."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Broomfield, CO

"I know so little about how this works that I don't know what questions I should ask!"
-- General Manager, Other Business Services, Pinehurst, NC

"I would like to backup up a complete image of the c: drive."
-- Consultant, Computers - Software, Opelousas, LA

"Backing up home data files. Financial spreadsheets, pictures, home video. Approximately 15-20 G total"
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Normal, IL

"We will be using this as an externl source to back up customers computers during repair services."
-- Partner/Principal, Information Services, Davie, FL

"I am a consultant doing research for a financial institution client. "
-- Consultant, Information Services, Glastonbury, CT

"We are looking for an automatic data backupsystems for our Appraise Inventory & Accounting data. Our company, American Clothing Express, Inc. is a small clothing distribution companyin Bartlett, Tennessee. We would only use this"backup" data if we experienced a "disaster",i.e. fire, tornado, etc. and lost all our historical data."
-- Accounting/Finance, Construction/General Contracting, Millington, TN

"We have a main server that currently uses 212 GB and a secondary server connected to the main server that currently uses 220 GB."
-- Buyer, Legal, Seattle, WA

"It would be remote back-up of graphical files, with incremental back-ups required. We do have local back-up on a NAS box here, so not sure how often we'd require the incremental back-ups done."
-- Partner/Principal, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Carrollton, TX

"I'm an independent consultant looking to recommend an offsite backup solution to a sole practitioner (lawyer). One or two pc's connected to the network by a cable modem. What do you offer, and how much does it cost?"
-- Consultant, Information Services, Fort Washington, PA

"We need to back up our servers and desktop on a daily basis."
-- CFO, Other Business Services, Miami, FL

"I need to mirror all changes from my server to yours in the event my server goes off line I will be able to access your server and continue my daily operation without loosing time and or data. I will then need to update my server when it comes back on line."
-- General Manager, Construction/General Contracting, Babylon, NY

"I want ot back up between 50 and 60 gigs of data from our server weekly."
-- Sales/Business Development, Transportation/Logistics, Fort Myers, FL

"We currently have an automatic tape drive backup system for our small network system. It is not working currently and we need to replace."
-- CFO, Construction/General Contracting, Santa Ana, CA

"I want to backup a Microsoft Small business server 2003. Right now i think I have about 35GB of data but want to plan for some growth in the future."
-- MIS/IT, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Jacksonville, FL

"My backup will consist of documents, pictures and CAD files."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Downers Grove, IL

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