If you’re considering making the move to online backup, you’re not alone. According to industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), more than 37% of small and mid-size businesses have already deployed disk-based backup solutions, and nearly another one-third are considering it now. Disk-based online backup is becoming the solution of choice: Gartner Group projects stated that by 2008, the majority of data restores will occur from disk, not from tape. Your challenge is to break through the noise of numerous vendors touting online solutions that have recently entered the market, and identify the best solution for your server data backup and recovery requirements.

The purpose of this paper is to help you in that process by presenting you with useful evaluation criteria, characteristics to consider in a solution, and by helping you prioritize the capabilities that can best meet your needs. From this paper, you can establish your own evaluation checklist of capabilities that matter most, to help you save time as you assess solutions, and choose thebest solution for your organization.

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