What backup vendor/solution would you recommend for cloud backups?

your data requirements fall in SMB line of business
try this
http://www.nasuni.com/
gateway to cloud NAS, i personally love the concept
pay less initially and pay as you grow
another great feature, u dont need special hardware for this(no vendor lock in)
a similar one is from veritas as well
http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/veritas-storage-foundation-scalable-...
Veritas Storage Foundation Scalable File Server (SFS

What type of data are you "protecting" (database, application data/files, or all) ? Will you reinstall, or restore the system from backup in the event of losing the OS ? Do you have any RTO/RPO requirements ? Also, what OS(s) are you backing up ?

I'm currently researching requirements similar to yours :)

This could assist. Using EMC's best of breed products we have incorporated a Service Catalog for On-Site and Off-Site (Cloud) Backup / Archiving Solutions.

http://www.eyevirtual.com/Virtual%20Storage%20Services.pdf

Hit me with email if you want to discuss further.

Since budget is very important to a small and medium size businesses, they tent to outsource their IT department, to find better solutions. I would recommend any company with such situation to build their own Backup system, on the long run it would be cheaper.

Just a recomendation.

Regards,
MaaS

Andrew,

My company provides Storage and Storage solutions and we represent a number of solutions for backing up data into the Cloud. We have solutions that just backup your data into the Cloud and also have solutions that virtualize your servers into the Cloud and provide you not only backup services but also failover and failback services; thus giving you a guarantee of uniterrupted service.

For your initial request, we have a product from Digi-data corporation that provides you an onsite appliance fro capturing your daily backup, or daily changes to your backups. At a schedule determined and set by the customer, this data will be backed up to the Cloud. Most of our customers backup to the Cloud during offhours to limit bandwidth usage during peak times. THe onsite appliance can be purchased, or rolled into the monthly charge for storing your data in the Cloud. Typical prices range in the $325.00 per month fro 500GB to $465.00 permonth for 1TB of data.

If interested in our solution you may contact me directly at (954) 752-5805 for a discussion and webX on this solution.

Don Ferreri
L H Computer Services

Andrew,

Saw your post on LinkedIn.

DigiData's SAFE product is a good solution for SMB environments. It provides 2 stage backup, on-site appliance and then copy to a secure off-site cloud that can be scheduled. On-site retention time can be controlled and is mainly a function of disk space on the appliance. Scalability is managed by implementing multiple appliances. They have a well designed web interface that lets you control the environment and integrates with any backup solution that can access disk as a tape target. They sell mainly through VARs and the VARs are trained and able to provide management of the backups if you require that. They also have a proprietary backup software that you can purchase if you need an agent locally. They provide file sharing as part of the solution. Additionally, they have a desktop/laptop/mobile-device backup solution, LEAPDrive, that has desktop agents for Windows and Mac and backs up directly to the cloud. It provides the ability for the user to retrieve their own files as well as share files with other users. Pricing is reasonable and the company has been in the storage business for over 20 years. You can contact me directly an 720-227-9190 or by email for additional information.

For those who are UK based and encountering similar challenges, Redstor provide a cloud based storage service called Redstor Online Backup. This is fully automated and encrypted as well as being backed up to 2 state of the art data centres.

For more info see http://www.redstor.com/onlinebackup.html or contact me through here.

I may be a bit late - but if your application is for business use, you may want to look at my company: http://www.winweb.com.

We not only offer cloud based storage but also other SMB/SME cloud applications that integrate seamlessly in the Online Disk App.

It's all backed up several times constantly and as secure as it gets. If you have any questions regarding this contact me.