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HP Upline and Yahoo! Briefcase Shutting Down
Both HP and Yahoo! this week announced plans to shut down their online backup services.
"HP's Upline service got off to a rocky start last year, suffering an outage soon after it launched in a blow for one of the cloud storage market's higher-profile entries," notes Enterprise Storage Forum's Paul Shread. "HP is no longer backing up customer files, but will allow customers to access files through the restore feature through the end of the month."
"Yahoo! Briefcase is closing its doors as of March 30, 2009," writes About.com's Linda Roeder. "If you have any Web pages backed up on Yahoo! Briefcase or if you have any photos stored there, you'll need to move them to another online storage site, or back to your computer, right away…"
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