Minimum requirements for the Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option is a Pentium system with Windows 98 SE or greater, and the package is available for $20 per seat based on a 100-user license.
This unique group of companies offers online backup services as well as client/server software for an end-to-end online backup system. With these products your organization can give mobile users online backup services. The data remains on your servers--a viable solution for companies whose existing backup products don't support individual desktop/laptop backup capabilities. These local-server-based offerings are specifically optimized for remote data backups that will promote compliance, yet the data is stored on local servers that can simply be added to your enterprise-level server backup scheme. Here are two examples:
Connected Corp. DataProtector The same software Connected uses to run its fee-based online backup service is available to enterprises, giving remote users data migration, data recovery, asset reporting, fast system rollback and optional e-mail handling. Connected's DataProtector licensed software with the optional EmailOptimizer costs $60 per PC based on 1,000 PCs. One pair of servers can support as many as 20,000 users, and the system is scalable to handle more than 100,000 users (for more information, see "Connected DataProtector with EmailOptimizer 7.1: Connected's Got Your Back," ).
NovaStor NovaNet-Web Like DataProtector, NovaStor's package offers the same features as its online service, providing efficient binary incremental backups, a simple Web interface, data encryption and compression, silent backup scheduling and e-mail reporting. NovaNet-Web is in use at sites with more than 60,000 users, but a five-user version is available for $695 (for more information, see "NovaStor Unveils Small-Business Backup,").
Free online storage services were a memorable part of the late 1990s Web explosion, as companies like Driveway.com, iDrive.com and MySpace.com floated comfortably on a seemingly endless sea of venture capital. Even though MySpace. com had almost 7 million users at its peak, it was swept away with most every other Web company based on a free-service business model.