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

"1 primary file server, 1 exchange server, 4 SQL servers, 2 web servers, 4 application servers."
-- MIS/IT, Health Care, Hillside, IL

"I want services where I have back up available right away with one click. Like what I see on my PC I should be able to see on backup. As an example if my hard drive crash, I should be able to quicklyrestore my old folders and subfolders and file structures including all my softwares."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Financial Services, Jamaica, NY

"I'm running Windows Vista.Does this back up all of my programs?Thanks!"
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Franktown, CO

"We are looking for a off site remote backup service that is secure and affordable. We currently have 100 gigs of data. We may archive current data and start from a clean drive...depends on efficiencies of your services."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, San Diego, CA

"The baseline size of the data we are backing up is about 31 gigs. 80% of this if fairly static (pdf's). The rest changes daily (the 4.3 Gig database). Our servers are all Macs. We only have one PC in the company."
-- MIS/IT, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Palo Alto, CA

"Being able to access files remotely when traveling from any pc."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Information Services, Issaquah, WA

"Backup would need to be done after hours on a nightly basis."
-- Office Manager, Other Business Services, Loveland, OH

"This is to be an emergency backup in case of fire etc. We won't be downloading regularly."
-- MIS/IT, Non-Profit, San Francisco, CA

"I need to be able to access files remotely via internet from international locations"
-- Consultant, Consulting, Sausalito, CA

"We store alot of video files and music files that we create on an avid system and mac pro tools."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, San Francisco, CA

"We need back up for multiple sales offices for data from Outlook, ACT!, My Documents on Windows XP systems."
-- Sales/Business Development, Manufacturing, Mooresville, NC

"We would like to retire our current tape backup system, and replace it with a 3rd party remote offsite backup service provider."
-- Buyer, Government, San Antonio, TX

"I would like to replace our existing backup solution software and hardware with a standard, but low-cost solution for our small business."
-- MIS/IT, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, De Pere, WI

"We want to be able to store and share data as well with the service."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, West Chester, PA

"Need to have bib by bit imaging so the image can be forensically sound."
-- CIO, Consulting, Laguna Hills, CA

"I'm interested since I travel alot and would like to only carry programs on my laptop and then being able to access my data and files when I travel."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Anaheim, CA

"Need Best cost effecive way to backup files instead of using tape drives."
-- Buyer, Real Estate, Kansas City, MO

"1 server 17.7 gig presently one back up 5 days week."
-- Purchasing Manager, Manufacturing, Port Saint Lucie, FL

"We have a linux server which has data I want to backup offsite."
-- MIS/IT, Education, Senath, MO

"I want to have an off site back up for our Exchange Server, our accounting application, plus a few other misc files."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Union, NJ

"I have an old HP thats about to crash.Approx 57GB storage used.Windows 98.Must be compatable with 98, not 98 SE, or ME."
-- Partner/Principal, Health Care, Waco, TX

"What and how we want to store off site is still undecided. It will depend on pricing.We cuurently use off site tape storage housing at 1 of 7 locations but are looking at alternatives."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Carrollton, TX

"Back-up cannot interrupt the system. Backing up 5 locations. Data must be encrypted."
-- General Manager, Travel/Hospitality, Los Angeles, CA

"I am looking for a daily full server backup, not just updated files."
-- General Manager, Transportation/Logistics, Oceanside, NY

"Need to send the hard drive to the company for the initial upload onto their servers. 400 GB is too much data to transmit at our speeds - would have to shut down operations for several days to send it all."
-- Consultant, Other Business Services, Universal City, TX

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