2015-04-15T12:21:00Z

Do you have an RFP template for Backup Solutions which you can share?

If you've created or used an RFP template for Backup Solutions, please share it with the community to helps others.

Ariel Lindenfeld - PeerSpot reviewer
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AS
Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-07-19T11:23:29Z
Jul 19, 2022

Hi Ariel. Unfortunately, all of our documents are in Portuguese. You can choose one of them from 2021 from: https://www.cedsif.gov.mz/ceds...

Search for a product comparison in Backup and Recovery
it_user156372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Expert with 51-200 employees
Real User
2015-04-15T16:00:57Z
Apr 15, 2015

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Backup-Solutions-Sample-RFP ?

DG
Senior System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Real User
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2015-04-16T05:50:53Z
Apr 16, 2015

We support small to medium business's and offer a few solutions based more on budget unfortunately then the high standards listed above. But we often come very close to those standards providing the same level of data protection without the the high cost of a mirror site.

An RFP for large business and government facility's is not the same for the smaller private sector comunites and doesn't necessarily fit. Being able to offer local or image backups and off site solutions in addition to robust raid array's and virtual machines that can move to another host has become a growing and obtainable goal for a lot of SMB's.

We are finding that there are several solutions that will meet the needs of the different environments and allow growth and the addition of redundancies when needed. I would recommend to most that if you do have a RFP for your backup solution you revisit that and make sure your not overlooking other solutions that might be able to meet your requirements and keep costs down to a minimum.

Both application driven decisions and company requirements can be be very different and when software such as Oracle and many others are involved, your RFP although very robust and redundant may not be the best Solution. I have seen over and over the DBA's backing up there data through some CLI script to the oddest of places bypassing the companies backup solution. When I have asked why the answer is usually very close from each companies DBA. "The backup software doesn't work with our database properly." Making sure the solution your requesting will meet the needs of everyone does require some special attention and may require you to go outside of a standard RFP. If your working with a tight budget, that one variable could make your RFP no longer a viable solution due to costs. So keeping and RFP loose and with multiple options you should be able to find a solution that is not over the top with redundancy and works with all your application and data needs.

it_user111198 - PeerSpot reviewer
User at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Vendor
2015-04-16T04:54:00Z
Apr 16, 2015

http://10ba4283a7fbcc3461c6-31fb5188b09660555a4c2fcc1bea63d9.r13.cf1.rackcdn.com/04/f6c085a02068ba243a3b83034fae95a6.pdf?id=287449

it_user206187 - PeerSpot reviewer
President & CEO at a tech services company
Consultant
2015-04-16T02:01:04Z
Apr 16, 2015

Hey Russell,

Sorry……. I don’t have an RFP sample for you and obviously you know the ins and outs of the BDR process.
I did some blogs on all of the aspects of BDR – you may want to look at them and cut and paste to create your own RFP.

Please go to………….. http://www.oasistechnology.com/oasis-blog/
and go to the Backup and Disaster Recover sections – there are about six short parts.

If you inclined, feel free to use this material to build your document.

Regards,
George Baldonado
Email: georgeb@oasistechnology.com
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it_user206187 - PeerSpot reviewer
President & CEO at a tech services company
Consultant
2015-04-16T01:57:42Z
Apr 16, 2015

Hey Russell,

Sorry……. I don’t have an RFP sample for you and obviously you know the ins and outs of the BDR process.
I did some blogs on all of the aspects of BDR – you may want to look at them and cut and paste to create your own RFP.

Please go to………….. http://www.oasistechnology.com/oasis-blog/ and go to the Backup and Disaster Recover sections – there are about six short parts.
If you inclined, feel free to use this material to build your document.

Regards,
George Baldonado
Email: georgeb@oasistechnology.com
Page: www.oasistechnology.com
www.facebook.com/oasistechnology
Voice: (805) 445-4833
Fax (805) 445-4839
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it_user134643 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
2015-04-15T19:37:19Z
Apr 15, 2015

Very detailed working on this Backup RFP.

http://www.hec.gov.pk/MediaPublication/AdvertisementsTenders/Documents/Final%20%20RFP%20Acquistion%20of%20backup%20services%20and%20Software.pdf

With Regards

Bilal Ahmed

it_user134643 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
2015-04-15T19:32:54Z
Apr 15, 2015

You can download our RFP for Backup from this link:

http://www.hec.gov.pk/MediaPublication/AdvertisementsTenders/Pages/BackupSoftwareLicensesandBusinessContinuityServices.aspx

Regards

Bilal

SD
IT Operations Officer (SCOPE) at United Nations World Food Programme
Real User
2015-04-15T15:26:30Z
Apr 15, 2015

We do not have an RFP in place yet, have plans to develop one though

MM
Systems Admin at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
2015-04-15T14:18:26Z
Apr 15, 2015

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. Deduplication compression ratio
5. Ability to Archive
6. Ability to replicate to secondary site
7. Connectivity of solution
8. Cost of solution
9. Licensing
10. Maintenance
11. Support agreement

HC
Engineer-Technology Solutions at Ashtech Infotech Pvt.Ltd.
Real User
2015-04-15T14:10:29Z
Apr 15, 2015

No, i don't have, if you have please share on hchhaya21@gmail.com

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