Close
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
Read Down
Sign in
Close
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Read Down
Password recovery
Recover your password
Close
Search
Menu
Search
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
More
    Home Latest News
    • Storage

    Backup Solutions Sample RFP

    By
    eWEEK EDITORS
    -
    November 21, 2005
    Share
    Facebook
    Twitter
    Linkedin

      eWEEK Labs strongly recommends that IT managers closely examine their current environment and size up their goals before shopping for a backup solution. A site survey can provide this information. Following are some questions to ask as you begin developing an RFP for backup solutions.

      OVERALL FUNCTIONALITY

      * Does your solution support backup to disks? • If so, which targets can you write to? (NAS, file share, iSCSI array and so on)

      • How is data compressed onto disk?

      * Does the product offer bare-metal restore capabilities? • For which platforms? • Does it have bare-metal restore for client systems?

      • Are there additional licensing fees?

      * Does the solution provide end-user file restore? • If so, how do users access the backup utility? (through a Web interface or through an add-on application)

      * Does the product offer client backup? • Can it back up remote clients using an Internet connection?

      • Does it have a push install mechanism to place agents on client machines?

      • Can its management tools locate at-risk systems and enforce mandatory backups?

      MANAGEMENT APPLICATION INTEGRATION

      * Is your backup platform compatible with anti-virus software? • If so, which products?

      • Does the platform integrate with SRM (supplier relationship management)? Which packages?

      • Does it integrate with security applications?

      * Which e-mail platforms does the product back up? • Does it have message-level restore capabilities?

      • Is WORM management built into the product?

      * Which databases does your offering support? • Can it back up live databases?

      • Does it have the ability to quiesce a database before creating a backup?

      * Is tiered backup supported? • Does your offering support D2D2T backups?

      • Does it automate the data migration process (moving old data on disk to tape)?

      Check out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis on enterprise and small business storage hardware and software.

      Avatar
      eWEEK EDITORS

      MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

      Android

      Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro: Durability for Tough...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 5, 2020 0
      Have you ever dropped your phone, winced and felt the pain as it hit the sidewalk? Either the screen splintered like a windshield being...
      Read more
      Cloud

      Why Data Security Will Face Even Harsher...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 1, 2020 0
      Who would know more about details of the hacking process than an actual former career hacker? And who wants to understand all they can...
      Read more
      Cybersecurity

      How Veritas Is Shining a Light Into...

      eWEEK EDITORS - September 25, 2020 0
      Protecting data has always been one of the most important tasks in all of IT, yet as more companies become data companies at the...
      Read more
      Big Data and Analytics

      How NVIDIA A100 Station Brings Data Center...

      Zeus Kerravala - November 18, 2020 0
      There’s little debate that graphics processor unit manufacturer NVIDIA is the de facto standard when it comes to providing silicon to power machine learning...
      Read more
      Apple

      Why iPhone 12 Pro Makes Sense for...

      Wayne Rash - November 26, 2020 0
      If you’ve been watching the Apple commercials for the past three weeks, you already know what the company thinks will happen if you buy...
      Read more
      eWeek


      Contact Us | About | Sitemap

      Facebook
      Linkedin
      RSS
      Twitter
      Youtube

      Property of TechnologyAdvice.
      Terms of Service | Privacy Notice | Advertise | California - Do Not Sell My Information

      © 2021 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

      Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.

      ×