There are a lot of factors that go into designing a backup solution and more information would be needed.  Is you data in a single data center, multiple data centers or the cloud?  Is there a budget you have to fall within?  Do you want the data to reside solely in a single…

I switched from an EMC DataDomain to Rubrik and am very pleased.  We use the Rubrik in house for our local servers and have it backup to the Rubrik DataVault for our off-site storage.  You can set your SLAs based upon your preferences of how long to keep your data backups…

1. Determine if your needs are on-prem, cloud, hybrid, etc. as not all solutions work in all circumstances.  And make sure the solution works for volumes, files, Exchange if needed, SQL if needed, and if it will deal with logs 2. Make sure the solution cleans up after…

There are advantages and disadvantages to both on-prem and cloud backup solutions. It depends on where the data is stored to start with, the amount of data, and the type of data There are also costs involved as on prem would have a higher cost up front for the…

We went with Rubrik based on our needs.   We wanted on-prem backup with the option of having a second site where our data is replicated.   Rubrik now has some new offerings such as:  - RADAR that scans data on our on-prem backup storage for anomalies,  - SONOR for looking…

If you can get the funding for DRaaS then do it. You have to look at the cost of a single system or multiple systems being down for your enterprise.  Depending on your situation, SLAs, number of users, number of physical servers, number of virtual servers, etc., you need to…

If you don't care about the data stored by Microsoft, then you don't have to back it up.  But if you do care about your data, then look into some sort of backup solution for O365/M365.  There are many good options out there.  Microsoft's responsibility is for the…

In my opinion, there should be no expense spared for protecting the companies data. I've used many solutions, and only one was open source. That was Bacula and I was only using it for Linux. Since there was no support, configuring took a lot of time and had to be manually…

Without knowing the configuration of the systems to be backed up, it would be difficult to give pros and cons to the different solutions. Virtual or Physical, how much data, what type of data, what type of storage are you backing up to, do you need this data replicated off…

I'm getting about a 20:1 on my DD2500. It all depends on what types of files are being backed up. Some are better at deduping than others. Graphics and Videos are lousy at deduping, but other files are really good.

I didn't create a true RFP but here are some of the things that were important to me when designing a new backup solution 1. Speed of backup 2. Speed of restore 3. Level of restore - full, incremental, partial, file level, mail level version mail store level 4.…