Carbonite Announces Distribution Deal with Sun Microsystems

Filed in archive Online on July 10, 2009

Sun Microsystems and Carbonite have announced a partnership under which users who download the newest version of Java will receive a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup.

"Carbonite Online Backup installs in a few clicks and runs automatically in the background, continually backing up the files on the computer, sending them in encrypted form to Carbonite's Boston and Beijing data centres," writes Channel Register's Chris Mellor. "It says storage capacity is unlimited and users will never outgrow their Carbonite subscription no matter how much data they have."

"With the number of machines out there that have Java installed and updated this is a big deal for Carbonite," writes Geek.com's Matthew Humphries. "There are a lot of potential new customers who are going to gain access to its online backup service and surely the company will benefit from this. A free month of backups is going to be tempting to some and even if only a small percentage decide to sign-up and use online backups it is going to swell the user base for Carbonite."

More here from eWeek ... and the press release is here.