I’d recommend you check with David Halford of Forsythe after you talk to Sungard. David is on the Board of Directors with me on the Southeastern Continuity Planners Association, and his company is not strictly a DR firm, they have a variety of IT offerings and might be a better fit for what you are seeking. Sungard excels at providing DR through hotsite and mobile data center deployments, but those both sound like overkill from what you are saying.
Here’s his contact info, please let him know I told you to call. He has an office near I-285 and I-75 so is regionally as close as the Austel Sungard facility David Halford Managing Consultant Enterprise Risk Management, BCDR (678) 934-0365 direct (404) 307-5623 mobile (678) 934-0465 fax [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SunGard Thanks, everyone. Good to know they’re legit. I am NOT looking to get the data off-site to someone else’s data center, I’m just looking to see if they can help me craft a “low-cost” but effective data redundancy solution. From what little I can see about them, they’re going to want to sell me a backup service, which I don’t think we’ll be wanting to implement, but I can talk to my current boss (CFO) and see what he thinks. My previous boss (VP of operations) didn’t like the idea of shipping our data out to the “cloud” even if it was encrypted. Personally, I’m not thrilled with that idea either, despite the fact that we don’t have a lot of “proprietary” data on the Windows side of things. That being said, it may be cheaper to get a SAN here and then “backup” to someone like SunGard, or Qwest as someone else said. I’ll have to check with my Qwest rep to see what they can offer if we want to go that way. J One good thing about getting just one SAN and backing up the data to the “cloud” is that I could get a LOT nicer SAN than I was planning on. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SunGard Eh….what does a week of downtime cost you? :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SunGard They are very legitimate. They are exceedingly effective. They are not inexpensive. :) -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:56 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: Anyone heard of SunGard? Got cold-called by them regarding their “availability” / data / business-continuity services and before I talk much to them, I want to make sure they’re 1) legitimate and 2) not overpriced. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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