For $353 a year, customers can get off-site backup by sending data to a SonicWall data center. The planned upgrade will let customers use a second CDP instead.
The 440i lists for $7,999, which includes the SonicWall hardware, software and media. For small enterprises that don't mind buying hardware and software separately, Symantec's Backup Exec CPS plus 1 TB of disk would cost about the same, but would be expandable.
Online backup services offer appliance-like ease of use as well as expandable storage capacity. Since the data is stored offsite, the service also acts a disaster-recovery system. However, online backup services are scheduled rather than instantaneous, and many admins are reluctant to entrust critical data to a third party.
Ryan Elstad is a system administrator at Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Write to him at [email protected].
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