Jul 10 2009

Carbonite Announces Distribution Deal with Sun Microsystems

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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 Onlin…

Jul 10 2009

Mozy and the Petabyte

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The folks at Mozy have posted a wonderful graphic explaining the concept of a petabyte (a million gigabytes) — and noting that the company now stores more than 15 petabytes of data:

"13.3 …

Jun 21 2009

HP to Pre-Install Norton Online Backup on All Consumer PCs

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Symantec recently announced an agreement with HP to pre-install Norton Online Backup on all HP consumer desktop and notebook PCs worldwide. New users will receive a 30-day free trial of the service, l…

Jun 20 2009

Introducing Concentric Managed Backup

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Concentric recently introduced Concentric Managed Backup, a hosted service designed specifically for small and medium sized businesses. The service is powered by EVault backup and recovery technology…

May 21 2009

Amazon Launches AWS Import/Export: Upload by Snail Mail

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Amazon Web Services today announced a limited beta of AWS Import/Export, a service which allows Amazon S3 users to ship large sets of data to the provider, rather than attempting to upload them over s…

May 12 2009

Twin 1.0 Now Available in Beta

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California-based app4mac has launched the beta of its online backup solution for Mac OS X, Twin 1.0.
"Twin is built on the code base for Persistence, and supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon…

Mar 21 2009

Symantec Launches Norton Online Backup

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Symantec this week launched Norton Online Backup, a relatively straightforward automated consumer backup service designed to compete directly with Mozy, BackBlaze and others.
"Norton Online Backu…

Feb 28 2009

HP Upline and Yahoo! Briefcase Shutting Down

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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 …

Feb 01 2009

Introducing GDrive

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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 1459613
Blogger Brian Ussery this week discovered text indicating the imminent arrival of Google's GDrive online file backup and storage service.
"Despit…

Dec 12 2008

BackBlaze Intros Mac Beta of Unlimited Online Backup Service

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Backblaze this week introduced a Mac version (currently in beta) of its $5-a-month online backup service.
"Backblaze joins such services as CrashPlan, MozyHome, and SteekUP in offering Mac users …