I'm looking for a small business backup solution that is affordable, when you include all the pieces, (software & hardware). I want to backup to a local independent server and replicate to our own server in our own offsite location over a 5mb data pipe. It needs to be fast enough so that I can count on the remote data being as reliable as the local data.
I need to keep the entire solution below $10k, (software & hardware). My environment consists of a vSphere 5.1 cluster with 3 - 2 socket hosts, running 12 VMs. The amount of storage for our production systems is just under 1TB. Our current backup solution uses almost 4TB of storage and I'd like to reduce that with some type of de-duplication or compression.
My research so far has found some possibilities but make me hesitate because the more I look into them the more the cost goes up....