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

"Small office - up to 6 PCs - on a peer to peer network - we probqbly need nightly backup. Data is mainly Word and Excell documents."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Virginia Beach, VA

"Please, quote for 10GB and 20GB, respectively. Currently we have DSL service; specify if T1 upgrade needed for back up services."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Miami, FL

"Would like to have compatible software that allows us to specify what data to backup daily as an incremental backup with weekly full backup of data files."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Travel/Hospitality, Ramona, CA

"We are a sales company and currently looking at the possibility for online backup for our data. Checking pricing and the benefits doing so."
-- Office Manager, Wholesale, Vancouver, WA

"We must be able to retrieve backed up data at a moments notice based on date of backup."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Rocky Mount, VA

"Ability to back up Lotus Notes Databases while Lotus server is running."
-- Consultant, Equipment Sales & Service, Santa Clara, CA

"Back up needed for small branch offices that can be verified from corporate office. Reporting capacity."
-- MIS/IT, Non-Profit, Espanola, NM

"Sole proprietor business run from a home office. Looking for an offsite data backup and recovery solution that is easy to configure and use and is also cost effective for the level of my need."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Education, Manchester, NH

"Want to be able to back up pertinent data for personal business and retrieve from other locations if necessary."
-- Consultant, Financial Services, Woodbridge, VA

"I travel extensively and will back up from home as well as on the road from company and hotel broadband services."
-- Consultant, Consulting, Chicago, IL

"We will need to be able to backup our file server, as well as Active Directory, Exchange server 2003 and MS SQL server 2000."
-- CIO, Legal, Oklahoma City, OK

"I want to backup personnal information such as financial records and photographs but I'm nervous about sending this information across the internet and don't want to be a victum of identity theft. How secure and reputable are these services?"
-- Engineer/Programmer, Manufacturing, Eugene, OR

"I need the cost for a school project I am working on."
-- MIS/IT, Wholesale, Reno, NV

"We need a GroupWise server running on Netware to be backed up as well."
-- MIS/IT, Education, Abilene, TX

"Be able to easily retrieve data from remote backup. Legal assurance form remote storage provider of secure protection of data (would like guarantee)."
-- Consultant, Consulting, Saint Joseph, MO

"3rd party backup of our data base server hosted at rackspace."
-- MIS/IT, Other Business Services, Norcross, GA

"Looking to backup 250GB of data from two servers, but just files."
-- MIS/IT, Consulting, Alexandria, VA

"We have 1 server for the Small Business running Windows 2000 Server. There is also a Microsoft SQL database and we may have open files on a regular basis."
-- Consultant, Construction/General Contracting, Kansas City, MO

"We would like to store programs as well as data. Fast easy recovery is important."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Anchorage, AK

"I would like to be able to backup files located on a Network Attached Storage we have here. Some of the file will only need to be archived."
-- Creative Design/Writing/Production, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Bentonville, AR

"We are looking for a solution to back up 3,000 to 10,000GB of information offsite. These files do not change very often, they are for archive purposes."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Saint Charles, MO

"Business critical files from two servers in different locations copied off daily for 100-150 GB."
-- CIO, Non-Profit, New York, NY

"I would like a back up system that will work automatically on a weeklyly basis that will provide me witht the confidence I need to run my daily business."
-- Sales/Business Development, Other Business Services, New York, NY

"I am looking for a solution for several clients and am interested in your reseller programs."
-- Partner/Principal, Consulting, Shawnee Mission, KS

"Just checking ball park figures for remote backup. We had a client asking about remote backup and we need a general amount to give them an educated answer."
-- MIS/IT, Computers - Hardware, State College, PA

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