occsean
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Hi all..
Been doing some searching here and haven't quite found the answer to what it is I am attempting to accomplish...
I have a small biz customer with 7 workstations that operate as a satellite office. Most of their main work is being done via RDP to another state and all the data that is created, modified, etc. is stored on the central offsite server housed in another office. However, the users do create small amounts of local data including word processing docs, spreadsheets, misc other docs as well as PST's for their POP accounts. Opening up the server offsite for data storage is not an option per the client at this point. What my customer wants to implement is some type of local NAS as backup for the small amounts of data generated locally. He specifically mentioned the BlackArmor series from Seagate as a solution.
My question is this: Should I let the customer "drive" this decision and just tell him to purchase the Seagate NAS? I see the solution as slightly limited although better than the backup they have now (which is none). My thoughts range towards taking this one step further by setting up the Seagate solution and then have rotating external drives to take offsite or just recommending a cloud solution from the get go.
I haven't really discussed budget with the customer, though in hindsight that would have been an important consideration. I was basically told...give me your recommendation and i will get it for you. The other wildcard in this is there is a mid range plan to get rid of the server at the other location and moving to SAAS or a hosted solution which would more than likely render the local backup obsolete if implemented properly.
Any thoughts or your own personal experiences in implementing this are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Sean
Been doing some searching here and haven't quite found the answer to what it is I am attempting to accomplish...
I have a small biz customer with 7 workstations that operate as a satellite office. Most of their main work is being done via RDP to another state and all the data that is created, modified, etc. is stored on the central offsite server housed in another office. However, the users do create small amounts of local data including word processing docs, spreadsheets, misc other docs as well as PST's for their POP accounts. Opening up the server offsite for data storage is not an option per the client at this point. What my customer wants to implement is some type of local NAS as backup for the small amounts of data generated locally. He specifically mentioned the BlackArmor series from Seagate as a solution.
My question is this: Should I let the customer "drive" this decision and just tell him to purchase the Seagate NAS? I see the solution as slightly limited although better than the backup they have now (which is none). My thoughts range towards taking this one step further by setting up the Seagate solution and then have rotating external drives to take offsite or just recommending a cloud solution from the get go.
I haven't really discussed budget with the customer, though in hindsight that would have been an important consideration. I was basically told...give me your recommendation and i will get it for you. The other wildcard in this is there is a mid range plan to get rid of the server at the other location and moving to SAAS or a hosted solution which would more than likely render the local backup obsolete if implemented properly.
Any thoughts or your own personal experiences in implementing this are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Sean
