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Phanfare, the premier video and photo sharing service for families, utilizes Amazon S3 to provide safe and secure unlimited storage for all of your videos and photos

 

METUCHEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Online video and photo sharing service Phanfare (www.phanfare.com) today announces that it has selected Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide unlimited storage and backup for all of its customers videos and photos at multiple secure locations across the United States. Phanfare customers now have the added peace of mind of knowing that there are copies of their most cherished personal content at both a Phanfare datacenter in New Jersey and at Amazon.com’s datacenters.

Phanfare provides unlimited backup of original, full-size, high-resolution images and original video content. Unlike many other online sharing services, Phanfare customers can download these originals at any time for no additional charge. Paying Phanfare customers receive an unlimited amount of storage, making Phanfare the best way to preserve all of their content.

 

“There is probably nothing more important on people’s home computers than their videos and photos,” said Andrew Erlichson, Phanfare’s CEO. “Phanfare customers can now rest easier knowing that their irreplaceable content is securely stored not only at Phanfare but also at Amazon.com, one of the most trusted brands and technology companies in America. There are now multiple levels of industrial-grade redundant backup in geographically diverse locations keeping our customer’s videos and photos safe and secure.”

 

“Amazon created Amazon S3 to give developers easy access to the same reliable and secure web-scale infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run our own global network of Web sites,” said Steve Rabuchin, Director of Developer Relations, Amazon Web Services. “By using Amazon Web Services, Phanfare customers can feel confident that all of their videos and photos are safe and secure for future generations.”


About Phanfare

New Jersey-based Phanfare, Inc. provides the fastest, easiest way to share and protect all your videos and photos. For life. Phanfare’s subscription-based online video and photo sharing service provides customers with private, permanent, polished, advertising-free online albums. Phanfare offers consumers personalized web galleries with unlimited storage and flexible security controls. Powerful, yet easy-to-use, patent-pending software simplifies the time and effort required by customers to create, share and maintain their albums. Phanfare also offers MyPhanfare - a web-based AJAX client that allows customers to use Phanfare’s sophisticated workflow solution to manage videos and photos right on the web from any online computer anywhere in the world. Phanfare was founded in 2004 by CEO Andrew Erlichson and CTO Mark Heinrich.

 

Phanfare is available for $54.95 per year, $6.95 per month or $299.95 for a lifetime membership and is PC and Mac compatible. A 30-day free trial is available via download for both Mac and PC. The Phanfare service is free to nonprofits, schools, and religious groups. For more information visit www.phanfare.com.

 

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Contact:

Phanfare, Inc. Andrew Erlichson,               732-494-9449        pr@phanfare.com or S.I.R. Marketing Communications, Inc. Steve Rosenbaum/Leigh Nofi,               631-757-5665        sir@sironline.com

 



A similar story is covered by TechCrunch (posted below):

 


By Michael Arrington

July 13, 2007


40 Terabytes More Data For Amazon S3

 

Startup Phanfare, which stores a lot of user generated media, announced today that they are in the process of moving all of their backups of stored user data - 40 terabytes - to Amazon’s S3 storage service.

 

 

 

On the subject of Amazon, rumor has it that they’ll be adding to their storage and computing web services by year end - and adding a MySQL database web service to compliment the other two.

 

Peter

 

 

I have been reading about the online backup industry for a while now, mostly from the aggregator website,

 

BackupReview.info

 

As this site ranks the top 25 online backup companies on a monthly basis, I have not seen even once Amazon’s S3 ranked in the top 25 in the past 2 years. If S3 is that good and reliable, then why is that it did not make the cut at least once?

 

It sounds fishy here, and it looks like that the more a company has money to promote its products and services, the more we hear about them, despite the fact that there are tons others with far better products.

 

 

 

 

You may enter your comments at TechCrunch regarding this story

 

 Here is a comment of interest to us (Comment #13), may be you might have more to add:

“After all, right now, Amazon does not provide a Service Level Agreement (SLA) or even a phone number to call if you are unhappy with the Amazon web service. I don’t expect that Amazon will ever lose our data of course, but we would like an SLA before we bet our customer’s data on that.”

 

 

July 13th, 2007 at 9:38 am

 

Amazon S3 has been on a bit of a roll lately, recently surpassing 5 billion stored objects and growing fast.

 

It’s also racking up a number of passionate users who swear by it for reliability and cost savings. Phanfare is just the most recent example, albeit a large one.

 

Phanfare stopped short of moving all data over to S3, though. For now they are just moving backups. They admit they’d save more money by moving the storage function entirely to Amazon, but noted that:

 

 

 

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