February 01, 2010

www.BackupReview.info releases ranking of the top 75 online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise; based on predefined standardized criteria, to help users select the appropriate online backup company.

Vancouver, BC, Canada - February 01, 2010 - BackupReview.info publishes the February 2010 list of top ranking online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise. The list comprises of 25 companies under each category, for a total of 75 online backup solutions, based on standardized criteria defined on its site. This standardization of selection criteria goes a long way towards enabling users select the right online backup service for their specific needs.

Since it started ranking the top 25 online backup companies in January 2005, BackupReview.info has been choosing its top picks from all three sectors in one basket. Based on the feedback from the industry players and its readers, the site has further categorized the top ranking online backup companies by sector. Under each category identified — Consumer, SMB and Enterprise - the top 25 companies are presented in order of their rankings. Where available, links to elaborate reviews of the individual companies are provided.

With hundreds of companies offering seemingly the same service, choosing the best online backup provider could be challenging. Users need a standard set of criteria on which to evaluate the different services and understand which one would suit them the best. Factors that generally play a role in selecting online backup service include service requirements such as: cost per GB, cost per PC or per account, security, speed (backup and restore), reliability, uptime, quality, customer service, accessibility and financial standing of the company.

The top 5 online backup companies, from each sector include:

• Consumer: Carbonite, MemoPal, Keepit, IDrive and BackBlaze
• SMB: DataDepositBox, SOSOnlineBackup, Vembu, IBackup and Asigra
• Enterprise: Intronis, Backup-Technology, Storage Guardian, CrashPlan and MozyPro

The complete list of the top 75 online backup companies for February 2010 is found here.

BackupReview.info’s reviews, daily up to date news, articles and monthly rankings of the top online backup services, are supplemented with the voices from online backup and data storage companies. The CEO Interview spotlight section features interviews with CEOs/VPs and other senior executives of online backup and data storage companies. The ranking of the top 75 online backup companies is the endpoint of dedicated research and hours of hard work on the part of our research team. Interviews with key personnel in the online backup and data storage industry, reviews, articles on backup basics and links to third party websites on the site, bring a 360 degree view of the online backup and data storage industry.

About the company:
BackupReview.info has been running since 2004 and is dedicated to serving the online backup and data storage industry. By providing all relevant information, BackupReview helps potential users make the right choice for online backup solution.

The site’s daily posts are published in 52+ other websites, including Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Faves, BlogMarks, Tumbr, and its complimentary blog. The complete list of sites, where BackupReview’s posts are published, is found here.

Feature highlights of the site include: Daily up to date online backup and storage news, directory of online backup companies, articles on backup basics, reviews of online backup services by its editors, and from other review sites, and aggregated online backup companies’ corporate blogs.

Real time Twitter tweets are also featured in the site for keywords: “Online Backup“, “Online Data Backup“, “Online Backup Review” and “Remote Backups” using Twitter Grid. RSS feeds are also available in the site.

For more information, please visit: http://www.backupreview.info/.

Contact:
BackupReview.info
editor @ BackupReview.info
http://www.BackupReview.info

February 01, 2010

The top 75 online backup companies are grouped into 3 categories, namely:

1) Consumer - for the general consumers

2) Small Medium Business (SMB) - for small and medium businesses

3) Enterprise - for large enterprise corporations

The top 75 Online Backup Companies are determined mainly based on these criteria outlined in this article:

How Do I Choose the Best Online Backup Provider?

We also take into consideration news releases companies publish in the preceding month, server stability, reports from our mystery shoppers, our own reviews, user’s feedbacks, company corporate blogs, and more.

Additional recommended reading articles could be found in our Online Backup “Backup Basics” page.

To read our official news release regarding our top 75 online backup companies, please click here.

The USA traffic details of the top 5 online backup companies from each sector are found here.

The Top 75 Online Backup Companies for February 2010 are:

Note: Some companies might have products and/or services in 2 or more categories.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all above domains are “dot com” websites.

Do you have any feedback on these top 3X25 online backup companies picks? Are there companies listed in a wrong sector? Did we miss your favoured company? Tell us why.

Here are our reviews of online backup companies that have not made it to our top pick list:

1. HPUpline (Our Review) Online Backup (got out of business on March 31, 2009)

2. Dell DataSafe (Our Review) Online Backup

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The following are recommended sites for Mac Online Backup (in alphabetical order):

01 - BackBlaze

02 - Background Backup

03 - BackJack - specializes in Mac only

04 - Carbonite

05 - Crash Plan

06 - DataDepositBox

07 - FireVault

08 - Idrive

09 - MemoPal

10 - Mozy

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Click here for our directory

Click here to see the USA traffic details of the top 5 picks in each market segment

January 01, 2010

www.BackupReview.info releases ranking of the top 75 online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise; based on predefined standardized criteria, to help users select the appropriate online backup company.

Vancouver, BC, Canada - January 01, 2010 - BackupReview.info publishes the January 2010 list of top ranking online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise. The list comprises of 25 companies under each category, for a total of 75 online backup solutions, based on standardized criteria defined on its site. This standardization of selection criteria goes a long way towards enabling users select the right online backup service for their specific needs.

Since it started ranking the top 25 online backup companies in January 2005, BackupReview.info has been choosing its top picks from all three sectors in one basket. Based on the feedback from the industry players and its readers, the site has further categorized the top ranking online backup companies by sector. Under each category identified — Consumer, SMB and Enterprise - the top 25 companies are presented in order of their rankings. Where available, links to elaborate reviews of the individual companies are provided.

With hundreds of companies offering seemingly the same service, choosing the best online backup provider could be challenging. Users need a standard set of criteria on which to evaluate the different services and understand which one would suit them the best. Factors that generally play a role in selecting online backup service include service requirements such as: cost per GB, cost per PC or per account, security, speed (backup and restore), reliability, uptime, quality, customer service, accessibility and financial standing of the company.

The top 5 online backup companies, from each sector include:

• Consumer: Carbonite, MemoPal, Keepit, IDrive and BackBlaze
• SMB: DataDepositBox, SOSOnlineBackup, Vembu, IBackup and Asigra
• Enterprise: Intronis, Backup-Technology, Storage Guardian, CrashPlan and MozyPro

The complete list of the top 75 online backup companies for January 2010 is found here.

BackupReview.info’s reviews, daily up to date news, articles and monthly rankings of the top online backup services, are supplemented with the voices from online backup and data storage companies. The CEO Interview spotlight section features interviews with CEOs/VPs and other senior executives of online backup and data storage companies. The ranking of the top 75 online backup companies is the endpoint of dedicated research and hours of hard work on the part of our research team. Interviews with key personnel in the online backup and data storage industry, reviews, articles on backup basics and links to third party websites on the site, bring a 360 degree view of the online backup and data storage industry.

About the company:
BackupReview.info has been running since 2004 and is dedicated to serving the online backup and data storage industry. By providing all relevant information, BackupReview helps potential users make the right choice for online backup solution.

The site’s daily posts are published in 52+ other websites, including Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Faves, BlogMarks, Tumbr, and its complimentary blog. The complete list of sites, where BackupReview’s posts are published, is found here.

Feature highlights of the site include: Daily up to date online backup and storage news, directory of online backup companies, articles on backup basics, reviews of online backup services by its editors, and from other review sites, and aggregated online backup companies’ corporate blogs.

Real time Twitter tweets are also featured in the site for keywords: “Online Backup“, “Online Data Backup“, “Online Backup Review” and “Remote Backups” using Twitter Grid. RSS feeds are also available in the site.

For more information, please visit: http://www.backupreview.info/.

Contact:
BackupReview.info
editor @ BackupReview.info
http://www.BackupReview.info

January 01, 2010

The top 75 online backup companies are grouped into 3 categories, namely:

1) Consumer - for the general consumers

2) Small Medium Business (SMB) - for small and medium businesses

3) Enterprise - for large enterprise corporations

The top 75 Online Backup Companies are determined mainly based on these criteria outlined in this article:
How Do I Choose the Best Online Backup Provider?

We also take into consideration news releases companies publish in the preceding month, server stability, reports from our mystery shoppers, our own reviews, user’s feedbacks, company corporate blogs, and more.

Additional recommended reading articles could be found in our Online Backup “Backup Basics” page.

To read our official news release regarding our top 75 online backup companies, please click here.

The USA traffic details of the top 5 online backup companies from each sector are found here.

The Top 75 Online Backup Companies for January 2010 are:

Note: Some companies might have products and/or services in 2 or more categories.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all above domains are “dot com” websites.

Do you have any feedback on these top 3X25 online backup companies picks? Are there companies listed in a wrong sector? Did we miss your favoured company? Tell us why.

Here are our reviews of online backup companies that have not made it to our top pick list:
1. HPUpline (Our Review) Online Backup (got out of business on March 31, 2009)
2. Dell DataSafe (Our Review) Online Backup

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The following are recommended sites for Mac Online Backup (in alphabetical order):

01 - BackBlaze
02 - BackJack - specializes in Mac only
03 - Carbonite
04 - DataDepositBox
05 - FireVault
06 - Idrive
07 - MemoPal
08 - Mozy

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Click here for our directory

Click here to see the USA traffic details of the top 5 picks in each market segment

December 01, 2009

www.BackupReview.info releases ranking of the top 75 online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise; based on predefined standardized criteria, to help users select the appropriate online backup company.

Vancouver, BC, Canada - December 01, 2009 - BackupReview.info publishes the December 2009 list of top ranking online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise. The list comprises of 25 companies under each category, for a total of 75 online backup solutions, based on standardized criteria defined on its site. This standardization of selection criteria goes a long way towards enabling users select the right online backup service for their specific needs.

Since it started ranking the top 25 online backup companies in January 2005, BackupReview.info has been choosing its top picks from all three sectors in one basket. Based on the feedback from the industry players and its readers, the site has further categorized the top ranking online backup companies by sector. Under each category identified — Consumer, SMB and Enterprise - the top 25 companies are presented in order of their rankings. Where available, links to elaborate reviews of the individual companies are provided.

With hundreds of companies offering seemingly the same service, choosing the best online backup provider could be challenging. Users need a standard set of criteria on which to evaluate the different services and understand which one would suit them the best. Factors that generally play a role in selecting online backup service include service requirements such as: cost per GB, cost per PC or per account, security, speed (backup and restore), reliability, uptime, quality, customer service, accessibility and financial standing of the company.

The top 5 online backup companies, from each sector include:

• Consumer: Carbonite, MemoPal, Keepit, IDrive and BackBlaze
• SMB: DataDepositBox, Spare Backup, Vembu, IBackup and SOSOnlineBackup
• Enterprise: Intronis, Backup-Technology, Storage Guardian, CoreVault and CrashPlan

The complete list of the top 75 online backup companies for December 2009 is found here.

BackupReview.info’s reviews, daily up to date news, articles and monthly rankings of the top online backup services, are supplemented with the voices from online backup and data storage companies. The CEO Interview spotlight section features interviews with CEOs/VPs and other senior executives of online backup and data storage companies. The ranking of the top 75 online backup companies is the endpoint of dedicated research and hours of hard work on the part of our research team. Interviews with key personnel in the online backup and data storage industry, reviews, articles on backup basics and links to third party websites on the site, bring a 360 degree view of the online backup and data storage industry.

About the company:
BackupReview.info has been running since 2004 and is dedicated to serving the online backup and data storage industry. By providing all relevant information, BackupReview helps potential users make the right choice for online backup solution.

The site’s daily posts are published in 52+ other websites, including Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Faves, BlogMarks, Tumbr, and its complimentary blog. The complete list of sites, where BackupReview’s posts are published, is found here.

Feature highlights of the site include: Daily up to date online backup and storage news, directory of online backup companies, articles on backup basics, reviews of online backup services by its editors, and from other review sites, and aggregated online backup companies’ corporate blogs.

Real time Twitter tweets are also featured in the site for keywords: “Online Backup“, “Online Data Backup“, “Online Backup Review” and “Remote Backups” using Twitter Grid. RSS feeds are also available in the site.

For more information, please visit: http://www.backupreview.info/.

Contact:
BackupReview.info
editor @ BackupReview.info
http://www.BackupReview.info

December 01, 2009

The top 75 online backup companies are grouped into 3 categories, namely:

1) Consumer - for the general consumers

2) Small Medium Business (SMB) - for small and medium businesses

3) Enterprise - for large enterprise corporations

The top 75 Online Backup Companies are determined mainly based on these criteria outlined in this article:
How Do I Choose the Best Online Backup Provider?

We also take into consideration news releases companies publish in the preceding month, server stability, reports from our mystery shoppers, our own reviews, user’s feedbacks, company corporate blogs, and more.

Additional recommended reading articles could be found in our Online Backup “Backup Basics” page.

To read our official news release regarding our top 75 online backup companies, please click here.

The USA traffic details of the top 5 online backup companies from each sector are found here.

The Top 75 Online Backup Companies for December 2009 are:

Note: Some companies might have products and/or services in 2 or more categories.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all above domains are “dot com” websites.

Do you have any feedback on these top 3X25 online backup companies picks? Are there companies listed in a wrong sector? Did we miss your favoured company? Tell us why.

Here are our reviews of online backup companies that have not made it to our top pick list:
1. HPUpline (Our Review) Online Backup (got out of business on March 31, 2009)
2. Dell DataSafe (Our Review) Online Backup

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The following are recommended sites for Mac Online Backup (in alphabetical order):

01 - BackBlaze
02 - BackJack - specializes in Mac only
03 - Carbonite
04 - DataDepositBox
05 - FireVault
06 - Idrive
07 - MemoPal
08 - Mozy

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Click here for our directory

Click here to see the USA traffic details of the top 5 picks in each market segment

Abstract

These days, personal and business data continue to grow, as a result, data backup and protection has become challenging for many individuals and businesses. Online data backup has become the preferred way of backing up data for many. Online backup companies are getting launched from all corners of the planet.

The increasing importance of online data backup (also known as remote backup) services has created a huge opportunity for online backup service providers. The industry is very competitive and many are entering the industry. Some have become household names with in a couple of years after they launched, some are struggling after many years in the business, and some have given up. What differentiates these companies? What are the challenges of this industry? Is it the lack of trained IT staff? Management? Sales people? Well-developed business plan?

What are the reasons why these online backup companies fail? Was it something that was unviable in the very conceptualization? Is it another bust, just like the dot-com bust? Does the online backup and storage business model not make sense? Can we trust the surviving online backup and storage providers to keep our data safely? What do the experts say? These are few questions that are worrying organizations and individuals, who have lost their data or are apprehensive of the possibility.

A number of online backup service providers have exited the market very suddenly, taking customer data with them. It would be remembered with bitterness that these companies invited people to store their data on their online servers with promises of anywhere, anytime access to data and extensive security protocols, mirrored servers and redundancy with geographically scattered multi continental data centers.

It is true that many more storage companies will disappear into the blue. Some will continue to grow. A few may consolidate to stay afloat. So, what are the factors that led to the failure of some of these online backup and storage companies? How can we be sure that the existing companies will not go bust? What is the future course of action? What are the backup options?

In this white paper report, we examine these issues in great detail and at a number of levels. We also provide possible checkpoints of evaluation of the surviving online backup service providers, and list points how to pick the best online backup service. In addition, our analysis has been augmented by a number of online backup and data storage company CEOs. The CEO’s answers are fascinating and to the point.

This white paper discusses the reasons why some online backup and data storage companies fail, and what existing companies must do to continue in business. The paper summarizes some critical steps startup online backup companies or already established online backup companies should do to stay in business in the areas of customer care, management and employee skill levels, pricing, funding, investments, growth strategies, sales and marketing, business models, positioning, attitude, and technology.

This white paper is a must read for all, whether you are an expert CEO running an online backup company or you are researching the online backup industry to launch a new service.

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Contact us to order ($$) this great 36 page well researched white paper at editor (@) backupreview.info.

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November 01, 2009

www.BackupReview.info releases ranking of the top 75 online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise; based on predefined standardized criteria, to help users select the appropriate online backup company.

Vancouver, BC, Canada - November 01, 2009 - BackupReview.info publishes the November 2009 list of top ranking online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise. The list comprises of 25 companies under each category, for a total of 75 online backup solutions, based on standardized criteria defined on its site. This standardization of selection criteria goes a long way towards enabling users select the right online backup service for their specific needs.

Since it started ranking the top 25 online backup companies in January 2005, BackupReview.info has been choosing its top picks from all three sectors in one basket. Based on the feedback from the industry players and its readers, the site has further categorized the top ranking online backup companies by sector. Under each category identified — Consumer, SMB and Enterprise - the top 25 companies are presented in order of their rankings. Where available, links to elaborate reviews of the individual companies are provided.

With hundreds of companies offering seemingly the same service, choosing the best online backup provider could be challenging. Users need a standard set of criteria on which to evaluate the different services and understand which one would suit them the best. Factors that generally play a role in selecting online backup service include service requirements such as: cost per GB, cost per PC or per account, security, speed (backup and restore), reliability, uptime, quality, customer service, accessibility and financial standing of the company.

The top 5 online backup companies, from each sector include:

• Consumer: Carbonite, MemoPal, Keepit, MozyHome, and IDrive
• SMB: DataDepositBox, Spare Backup, Vembu, IBackup and SOSOnlineBackup
• Enterprise: Intronis, Backup-Technology, Storage Guardian, CoreVault, and MozyPro

The complete list of the top 75 online backup companies for November 2009 is found here.

BackupReview.info’s reviews, daily up to date news, articles and monthly rankings of the top online backup services, are supplemented with the voices from online backup and data storage companies. The CEO Interview spotlight section features interviews with CEOs/VPs and other senior executives of online backup and data storage companies. The ranking of the top 75 online backup companies is the endpoint of dedicated research and hours of hard work on the part of our research team. Interviews with key personnel in the online backup and data storage industry, reviews, articles on backup basics and links to third party websites on the site, bring a 360 degree view of the online backup and data storage industry.

About the company:
BackupReview.info has been running since 2004 and is dedicated to serving the online backup and data storage industry. By providing all relevant information, BackupReview helps potential users make the right choice for online backup solution.

The site’s daily posts are published in 52+ other websites, including Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Faves, BlogMarks, Tumbr, and its complimentary blog. The complete list of sites, where BackupReview’s posts are published, is found here.

Feature highlights of the site include: Daily up to date online backup and storage news, directory of online backup companies, articles on backup basics, reviews of online backup services by its editors, and from other review sites, and aggregated online backup companies’ corporate blogs.

Real time Twitter tweets are also featured in the site for keywords: “Online Backup“, “Online Data Backup“, “Online Backup Review” and “Remote Backups” using Twitter Grid. RSS feeds are also available in the site.

For more information, please visit: http://www.backupreview.info/.

Contact:
BackupReview.info
editor @ BackupReview.info
http://www.BackupReview.info

November 01, 2009

The top 75 online backup companies are grouped into 3 categories, namely:

1) Consumer - for the general consumers

2) Small Medium Business (SMB) - for small and medium businesses

3) Enterprise - for large enterprise corporations

The top 75 Online Backup Companies are determined mainly based on these criteria outlined in this article:
How Do I Choose the Best Online Backup Provider?

We also take into consideration news releases companies publish in the preceding month, server stability, reports from our mystery shoppers, our own reviews, user’s feedbacks, company corporate blogs, and more.

Additional recommended reading articles could be found in our Online Backup “Backup Basics” page.

To read our official news release regarding our top 75 online backup companies, please click here.

The USA traffic details of the top 5 online backup companies from each sector are found here.

The Top 75 Online Backup Companies for November 2009 are:

Note: Some companies might have products and/or services in 2 or more categories.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all above domains are “dot com” websites.

Do you have any feedback on these top 3X25 online backup companies picks? Are there companies listed in a wrong sector? Did we miss your favoured company? Tell us why.

Here are our reviews of online backup companies that have not made it to our top pick list:
1. HPUpline (Our Review) Online Backup (got out of business on March 31, 2009)
2. Dell DataSafe (Our Review) Online Backup

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Novastor doesn’t provide online backup service anymore. It has sold its online backup service division to Data Storage Corporation.

The following are recommended sites for Mac Online Backup (in alphabetical order):

01 - BackBlaze
02 - BackJack - specializes in Mac only
03 - Carbonite
04 - DataDepositBox
05 - FireVault
06 - Idrive
07 - MemoPal
08 - Mozy

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Click here for our directory

Click here to see the USA traffic details of the top 5 picks in each market segment

http://www.backupreview.info

http://www.dmailer.com

Backup Review Rating:

(4 stars out of possible 5)

Reviewed on October 23, 2009

Summary

Dmailer, located in Marseille, France, is a privately held software company. This OEM Company has partnered with a number of famous brands to create products for the storage industry such as SanDisk Ultra backup Flash drive, Imation UX Series, WX series based on Wireless USB protocol and Verbatim’s exclusive 40th anniversary edition drive. Dmailer Backup version 2.7 was released on September 7th, 2009.

Dmailer specializes in portable backup and synchronization solutions for mobile devices such as USB flash drives, memory cards, external hard disk drives, MP3 players, embedded phone memory, SIM cards and flash memory based cards. Dmailer’s data backup software is an important offering at the altar of online backup storage for consumers, and small or medium organizations.

The software is available for trial download with a 3GB of space and is nominally priced at $25.95 for its Windows, U3 Smart drive and Mac versions. The bundled version containing both Windows and Mac versions of the application is available for $38.95.

The application installation process is very easy and very fast. The application runs directly from the drive into which the .exe file is downloaded. The interface is intuitive and the users can begin using the application by making a few selections and proceeding to back up all their personal data on any kind of storage device—both offline and online.

Interestingly, the data can be accessed from the online repository irrespective of the platform from which the user is operating using a web interface, without downloading a local console on to the PC or Mac system that is being used.

The application allows manual, automatic and live backup to any kind of storage device, including network drives. The most remarkable difference with some other backup software is its ability to provide additional data backup and storage on a remote server that is accessible 24/7 via the web. This approach is really smart because we all know that some data are best stored on a hard drive, and some other are best stored online.

It provides secure storage and is an easy way of sharing data and sending large files with just a few clicks. The smart algorithms used make efficient use of bandwidth and the data backup and restore operations are commendably fast. The world class, regionally distributed data centers (in Europe and USA) provide for easy, reliable and efficient access to remote data.

›› Continue reading Review: Dmailer Online Backup Services

October 01, 2009

www.BackupReview.info releases ranking of the top 75 online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise; based on predefined standardized criteria, to help users select the appropriate online backup company.

Vancouver, BC, Canada - October 01, 2009 - BackupReview.info publishes the October 2009 list of top ranking online backup companies, categorized into three sectors: Consumer, SMB and Enterprise. The list comprises of 25 companies under each category, for a total of 75 online backup solutions, based on standardized criteria defined on its site. This standardization of selection criteria goes a long way towards enabling users select the right online backup service for their specific needs.

Since it started ranking the top 25 online backup companies in January 2005, BackupReview.info has been choosing its top picks from all three sectors in one basket. Based on the feedback from the industry players and its readers, the site has further categorized the top ranking online backup companies by sector. Under each category identified — Consumer, SMB and Enterprise - the top 25 companies are presented in order of their rankings. Where available, links to elaborate reviews of the individual companies are provided.

With hundreds of companies offering seemingly the same service, choosing the best online backup provider could be challenging. Users need a standard set of criteria on which to evaluate the different services and understand which one would suit them the best. Factors that generally play a role in selecting online backup service include service requirements such as: cost per GB, cost per PC or per account, security, speed (backup and restore), reliability, uptime, quality, customer service, accessibility and financial standing of the company.

The top 5 online backup companies, from each sector include:

• Consumer: Carbonite, MemoPal, Keepit, MozyHome, and IDrive
• SMB: DataDepositBox, Spare Backup, Vembu, Remote-Backup, and IBackup
• Enterprise: Intronis, Backup-Technology, Storage Guardian, CoreVault, and MozyPro

The complete list of the top 75 online backup companies for October 2009 is found here.

BackupReview.info’s reviews, daily up to date news, articles and monthly rankings of the top online backup services, are supplemented with the voices from online backup and data storage companies. The CEO Interview spotlight section features interviews with CEOs/VPs and other senior executives of online backup and data storage companies. The ranking of the top 75 online backup companies is the endpoint of dedicated research and hours of hard work on the part of our research team. Interviews with key personnel in the online backup and data storage industry, reviews, articles on backup basics and links to third party websites on the site, bring a 360 degree view of the online backup and data storage industry.

About the company:
BackupReview.info has been running since 2004 and is dedicated to serving the online backup and data storage industry. By providing all relevant information, BackupReview helps potential users make the right choice for online backup solution.

The site’s daily posts are published in 52+ other websites, including Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Faves, BlogMarks, Tumbr, and its complimentary blog. The complete list of sites, where BackupReview’s posts are published, is found here.

Feature highlights of the site include: Daily up to date online backup and storage news, directory of online backup companies, articles on backup basics, reviews of online backup services by its editors, and from other review sites, and aggregated online backup companies’ corporate blogs.

Real time Twitter tweets are also featured in the site for keywords: “Online Backup“, “Online Data Backup“, “Online Backup Review” and “Remote Backups” using Twitter Grid. RSS feeds are also available in the site.

For more information, please visit: http://www.backupreview.info/.

Contact:
BackupReview.info
editor @ BackupReview.info
http://www.BackupReview.info

October 01, 2009

The top 75 online backup companies are grouped into 3 categories, namely:

1) Consumer - for the general consumers

2) Small Medium Business (SMB) - for small and medium businesses

3) Enterprise - for large enterprise corporations

The top 75 Online Backup Companies are determined mainly based on these criteria outlined in this article:
How Do I Choose the Best Online Backup Provider?

We also take into consideration news releases companies publish in the preceding month, server stability, reports from our mystery shoppers, our own reviews, user’s feedbacks, company corporate blogs, and more.

Additional recommended reading articles could be found in our Online Backup “Backup Basics” page.

To read our official news release regarding our top 75 online backup companies, please click here.

The USA traffic details of the top 5 online backup companies from each sector are found here.

The Top 75 Online Backup Companies for October 2009 are:

Note: Some companies might have products and/or services in 2 or more categories.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all above domains are “dot com” websites.

Do you have any feedback on these top 3X25 online backup companies picks? Are there companies listed in a wrong sector? Did we miss your favoured company? Tell us why.

Here are our reviews of online backup companies that have not made it to our top pick list:
1. HPUpline (Our Review) Online Backup (got out of business on March 31, 2009)
2. Dell DataSafe (Our Review) Online Backup

================

Novastor doesn’t provide online backup service anymore. It has sold its online backup service division to Data Storage Corporation.

The following are recommended sites for Mac Online Backup (in alphabetical order):

01 - BackBlaze
02 - BackJack - specializes in Mac only
03 - Carbonite
04 - DataDepositBox
05 - FireVault
06 - Idrive
07 - MemoPal
08 - Mozy

==============

Click here for our directory

Click here to see the USA traffic details of the top 5 picks in each market segment

September 07, 2009

8 Web Mac online data backup services that let you back up files and restore them from anywhere

Here is the summary of the ranking and star ratings (out of possible 5 stars):

By Glenn Fleishman, Macworld.com

Backups work best when you have multiple copies, at least one of which is both current and offsite. OS X’s Time Machine feature plus high-capacity, low-cost hard drives make it possible to back up regularly and to rotate drives through backup sets and store a full backup somewhere away from the data that’s on it.

But what about when the worst happens? When fire strikes, a lightning bolt fries your computers and backup drives, or a burglar runs away with the goods? A drive stored offsite helps—but the files stored on it are out of date the second it’s unplugged and lugged away. An online backup service can be the perfect addition to your backup plan.

With large amounts of storage and faster Internet connections, backing up your files online has become more viable. These hosted backup providers can also add depth to your archives, since most of them store data in such a way that you can retrieve several—or even several hundred—previous versions of a modified file.

Here’s a look at eight services with OS X software to manage automated backups.

How we tested

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August 26, 2009
By Jarel Remick

10 Online Data Backup, Storage and Sharing Solutions

In an increasingly digital age, data backup, storage and sharing is more important than ever. However, today’s data backup and storage solutions have evolved into much more feature filled services that let you share and access your data easier and from pretty much anywhere while still affordable.

In this roundup we’ll take a look at 10 online data backup, storage and sharing solutions to meet everyone’s needs.

Mix and Match to Fit Your Needs

For many of us, one service won’t meet all our needs or our budget. Finding the right combination of services isn’t always easy but is a necessary evil to protect our important and growing collection of data. Remember that you’re most likely not going to find one service that does everything you need within your budget.

1. Amazon S3 + JungleDisk

Jungle Disk

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July 03, 2009

By Gil Poulsen

Product: F-Secure Online Backup
Company: F-Secure
Price: $49 for 12-month subscription
Website: f-secure.com

Over the past 15 years I’ve purchased, used, reviewed and even trained other users in numerous applications that were “ported” from their Windows versions to run on the Macintosh platform. Some have been supremely Mac-like, showing little or no evidence they were originally written for an entirely different computing platform. Others appeared to be assembled with less regard for the Mac user, perhaps still sporting some Windows-specific close boxes or other user interface elements. Some contained references in the help system to the C:\ drive, or to files or directories that aren’t actually present on Macs.

Then there’s F-Secure’s Online Backup, the alleged Mac version.

Maybe it’s just me, but if I’m going to purchase a program I’ll be trusting to back up all the critical files on my Mac - and enable me to restore them easily and accurately - I’d like that program to at least appear to be created for the Macintosh platform. Not only is F-Secure Online Backup (hereinafter referred to as FSOB) the sloppiest port of a Windows application I’ve seen in recent memory, but it also appears designed to deliberately confuse the user right from the start in terms of which files are actually being backed up.

That’s unfortunate for the folks at F-Secure, because FSOB does indeed “work.” In my testing I was able to back up well over a gigabyte of data to their remote vault, then successfully restore various document types to my Mac in an intact and accessible state. But the program’s Byzantine file selection process makes for a great deal of head-scratching when it comes to designating files for backup, while the default settings inexplicably omit all music files, yet include all video files. Remarkably, FSOB even asserts that it will be protecting my Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird or Windows Mail e-mail data, with no mention of Apple Mail or Entourage; that’s not the kind of interface screw-up that inspires confidence in a backup system.

My initial - and futile - attempt to fully grasp FSOB’s configuration process sent me scurrying back to the printed manual included in the box, only to discover that it contained exactly one page of Mac installation instructions and one page of uninstallation instructions. The downloadable PDF manual was much more revealing, providing a table that details how the default settings for the five categories in the file selection area operate, while at the same time confusing me beyond all rational measure. I’ll try to make some sense of the process as I go along, but there are some mysteries even an experienced writer/reviewer is incapable of unraveling.

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http://www.memopal.com

Backup Review Rating:

(4 stars out of possible 5)

Reviewed on June 30, 2009

Summary

Note: Our last year’s review of Memopal is found here

The track record of Memopal is impressive. The company was started in December 2007. The Windows, Mac, Linux and iPhone versions of the application were released in 2008. MemoPal’s applications have evolved and matured into robust efficient backup and storage applications, while some online backup service providers have joined the deadpool, like: Xdrive, OmniDrive, HP Upline, and Yahoo! Briefcase. MemoPal has votaries in Chinese, French, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and English and several other languages, as it is available to the speakers of these languages in their own native tongue!

Memopal Chief Information Security Officer, Andrea Cecchetti, describes the company’s service as “security and cloud computing” service. The online backup service provides users with File backup, Storage and Sharing services in a secure environment that goes beyond merely copying files from the computer to the storage server. This file system termed as Memopal Global File System (MGFS) is designed to be highly reliable, scalable and is made available at the lowest cost per GB. The features of this technology are:

• Up to 100 million Terabytes storage
• Up to 10¹⁵ Files
• Transparent Read-Write Compression
• Transparent Cipher
• Native Indexing
• Hot-Add Scalability
• Native Hardware Health Monitoring

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Reviewed by: Fiona Haley
Review Date: May 07, 2009

Straddling the line between those who want simple, easy access to their files from any location and those who need stealth security for content that simply must remain private, SpiderOak 3.0 is a free service that serves both purposes—and plenty in between. The latest version of SpiderOak is an online data manager designed to work with Windows, Mac, and Linux (the Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora flavors of the last). Its new Sync application lets those with multiple computers sync their data among different operating systems. For Mac and Linux users, and people concerned with privacy, these changes are excellent news.

The software is cloud-based, offering a central storage repository instead of an online backup option. Instead of simply saving a second copy of files, SpiderOak 3.0 keeps your files updated constantly, so you can access them from multiple computers or on the SpiderOak.com Web site. With Version 3.0, files on one computer are automatically changed on the others, so you can use it as a virtual personal network, sharing files among numerous machines and platforms without having to e-mail files or save them to a backup device.

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By Dick Eastman, http://www.eogn.com

May 04, 2009

I am a strong believer in the need for keeping multiple backups of all important files and storing those backups in multiple places. At a minimum, you should be keeping the original file(s) on your computer, a backup of each important file in a location that is close and convenient to your computer, and still another backup that is stored “off-site.” In this case, “off-site” might be at your place of work, at a relative’s home, in a safe deposit box, or on a server out on the Internet.

In the past few years, a number of online services have appeared that provide automated backup services. You install the software, do a bit of configuration, and then sit back and let your computer make frequent backups automatically.

April 30, 2009

By Michael Muchmore

Data Deposit Box targets its online backup service at small and one-person businesses, but the service’s simplicity, features (it even offers online photo albums), and pricing should be equally appealing to consumers. The product’s emphasis on simplicity starts with pricing: $2 per gigabyte per month.

Deposit Box claims its pricing model and features make it a better deal than the offers of vast storage amounts for a fixed price. Yet in the case of this service, simplicity doesn’t mean skimping.

It’s got most of what I look for in online backup, including continual (rather than daily or hourly) backup, multiple machine support, versioning, archiving, secure folder sharing, and open-file backup. The service needs an interface makeover, however, to put it over the top.

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By Raymond Ser

April 28, 2009

Over a year ago, whilst working feverishly on an overdue college paper, I spilled a large glass of water over my laptop. Cue panic attack as the MacBook Pro sizzled. I had a backup of that document on my Fujitsu tablet, but it was several days old, and so was the previous SuperDuper backup of the MacBook. Fortunately, the MacBook was fine after several hours by a heater (with the battery out, of course). I got round to looking at online backup services after that. I evaluated SugarSync (pricey), Diino (no Mac client) and settled on Mozy.

After the initial beta hiccups, Mozy’s been working fine on the MacBook, but for my new Mac Pro, I’ve decided to look at other, more fully featured services. I’ve been using Diino, Memopal and SpiderOak concurrently, and I’ll be reviewing them in alphabetical order - first up, Diino.

I disregarded Backblaze (too similar to Mozy), Carbonite (ditto, plus lots of bad press), CrashPlan (you have to buy the desktop client), DropBox (I don’t want to keep all my files in one folder…) and JungleDisk (complex pricing). Diino, Memopal and SpiderOak can be used on multiple computers, with just one licence.

I decided to try Diino because they’ve recently revamped their entire service, stripping out the gratuitous extras and introducing a Mac client. They’re also running an introductory offer of £8.99/$13 for the first year ($49 thereafter), for unlimited backup space and 100 gigabytes of storage, which pretty much sealed the deal.

Background

Diino is a Swedish company, and claims to have over a million users …

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March 19, 2009

By “Margin Notes”

This is the second and final part of my account of my experiences with the on-line backup service offered by Mozy.

The first part is here.

As I related in my last Mozy-related post, I started using the on-line backup service in late 2007, and all went reasonably well at first. The initial backup took well over a month, but — once it was complete — it was a great load off my mind to know that I had 30 gigabytes worth of photos, music, personal and work-related documents, and applications and settings saved remotely. My data was protected against both machine failure and — because my data was spread out all over Mozy’s servers — theft, fire, or tsunamis.

Then my hard drive failed. I had Computer ER, a computer-repair shop here in Missoula, replace it with a new one, and looked ahead to restoring my files quickly and easily from my Mozy backup.

There are several methods of restoring from a Mozy backup, but …

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February 27, 2009

Secure Online Backup

Remote backup is the ultimate security, in a way. If a falling satellite fragment smashes into your computer or zombies tear your office apart, you can still recover your essential files. ZoneAlarm Extreme, which offers 2GB of backup space for your most important files, uses a secure online backup system from backup powerhouse IDrive. As with Webroot, ZoneAlarm focuses strictly on online backup. BitDefender, Norton 360, and Panda offer a choice of local or online, and McAfee sticks with local backup.

Matching MozyHome Online Backup, IDrive offers 2GB of hosted online backup free to anybody, not just ZoneAlarm users. That seems to be the magic number—the online backup feature in BitDefender, Panda, Webroot, and Norton 360 all offer the same amount of storage. The differences become more apparent when you need more. For $49.50 per year, you get a whopping 150GB from ZoneAlarm. BitDefender asks $39.95 for just 10GB, while Webroot and Norton 360 also offer 10GB, but for only $20. Panda’s service isn’t free at all after the first year—you have to pay about $6.36 (5 euros, actually) for 5GB of storage. The only product that costs less per gigabyte is Mozy, which charges $4.95 for storage limited only by your available bandwidth.

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February 22, 2009

By David Strom, WebInformant.tv

An online backup server that covers a wide range of servers and services, this latest version includes the ability to protect Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange servers, VMware Infrastructure, and other sophisticated environments.

WebInformant.tv tested Version 12.5 on a small test network with Windows Server 2008 and Mac and Windows clients.

Company:
Symantec Corp.
http://symantec.com/backupexec
20330 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014

Requirements:
Windows 2000/2003/2008 Servers,

Price:
$995 for one license, additional agents varies in price from $395 to $3195, depending on what you need to backup.

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February 10, 2009

ZumoDrive is a new online file storage start-up currently in private beta that prides itself as offering “Hybrid Cloud storage for all your documents and media”. It’s both Mac, Windows, and iPhone compatible and free for storing less than 1GB of content. If you go over that amount you can upgrade to the 10GB plan for $2.99 per month ($0.30/GB). Currently the maximum allowed storage space is 200GB for $59.99/month ($0.30/GB).

The installation on my MacBook was a piece of cake. All I had to do was download the Mac or Windows based software, run the automated installation and within a few minutes I was done. Unfortunately, however, I ran into a small problem. At the end of the Mac installation a message appeared which read “MacFUSE Version Mismatch”. Upon receiving this error, I promptly searched for any similar postings in the ZumoDrive forums and reported the incident. I had also installed the desktop application on my Windows XP partition but did not experience any such problems like this whatsoever.

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February 01, 2009

By Jim Clark

On-line backup solutions are springing up all over the corporate world.  Some are rather limited in their capabilities/capacities.  Some are designed for specific OS’s (like WHS).  Some are free.  Some will cost you based upon flat rates, or graduated rates, depending upon your backup needs.

One such solution is a service from HP called HP Upline.  It was launched in April 2008 and an announcement was posted by WGS at that time.  HP Upline has had it’s growing pains, and for a time, it’s availability was suspended.  A rather inauspicious beginning for a backup solution where reliability and access is paramount.

Fast forward 9 months later.  HP has ironed out it’s problems and looking forward as it tries to find a place for HP Upline in the sea of backup solutions.  First, what is HP Upline?  Let’s start by stating what it is not for: your WHS.  HP has its own solution for owners of HP MediaSmart Servers.  HP Upline is for:

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Related Review:

Our review of HP Upline from May 2008 is found here:
http://www.backupreview.info/2008/05/04/review-hp-upline/

By Carla Schroder
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Secure, Convenient, and Affordable?

Offsite backups are essential for important data, because we all know the perils of keeping everything in one location: fire, flood, theft, power surges, power failures, permatemps refuse to take it anymore and go berserk– it’s just wise redundancy.

But how do you implement offsite backups? I’m tired of reading headlines about how some minimum-wage “contractor” (a code word for permatemp, which is code for employee who is paid peanuts and gets no benefits) has to haul backup tapes home every night, and then they get stolen out of the poor schmuck’s ‘68 Gremlin which hasn’t had functioning locks in decades. And the tapes are not encrypted, and in fact have labels that read SECRET STUFF–DON’T LOOK!! And the poor permatemp takes the heat, but it’s not his fault that his bosses are dimwits.

A Better Way

Thankfully there is a better way, and that is network backups to a remote location. You can swap storage space with a friend, or a branch office, or use a commercial service. The third option is the one we’re reviewing today, and the vendor is Spideroak. I’ve been torture-testing a couple of free accounts, and had a nice conversation with the folks at Spideroak, and the short story is I give it a mostly thumbs-up.

Spideroak offers 2GB of storage for free, and …

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By Chris Hall

13 January 2009 - Backing-up you important files is becoming more pertinent as more of us increase the number of files we store on our computers, thanks to the rise of the likes of digital photography, downloading music and mobile working. Finding the best backup solution can be something of a challenge, though Carbonite think they have a winner with their Online PC Backup.

Backup options are many and varied these days, from operating system versions, through to local software-free options, hybrid on and off line and totally online versions. As the name suggests, the Carbonite solution is one of the latter, taking your files off into the cloud to keep them safe should the worst happen to your files locally.

The software requires only a quick and small install, before it rolls into action. It will quickly check your online status and then go to work. One of the nice things about getting to know Carbonite, is that the application is very user friendly and even has a quick voiced tutorial to get you going.

But the simple installation goes a step further than many backup solutions, because it will add …

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December 22, 2008

We have been hearing some good things about the HP Upline online storage service so we figured it was time to do a review of the Upline online backup solution.  The service offers unlimited online backup storage with plans to accommodate most of your backup needs.  HP Upline offers one user account, a family account for up to three computers and a small business account that is expandable to 100 computers.

Upline is not just for online backup and storage.  The service also allows you to share and publish data to the web.  This is a great feature to use if you want to easily share all those Gigabytes of photos and videos you may have accumulated with your family and friends.  You can also easily share work files with coworkers without the tedious task of trying to email them to the people you want to share with.  HP Upline looks like a solid online backup solution with a few extra benefits.  Here is a review of HP Upline.

After you have signed up for an account, by the way they also offer a trial account with one Gigabyte of online storage so you can try the service before you buy it, you are prompted to download and install the software to run the backup service.  Here is a screenshot of the software setting up.

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Related Review:

Our Review of HP Upline Online Backup in May 2008:
http://www.backupreview.info/2008/05/04/review-hp-upline/

November 16, 2008

By Wictor Wilén

Microsoft is currently extremely offensive on their new cloud services targeted to consumers and business users with their Live services. I use a number of them daily with the Live Mesh as the newest addition.

A couple of months back I started to move my and my family’s documents to Skydrive, 5Gb free online storage, and I’ve made some efforts to get started with the Office Live Workspace, to have a better place work working with the documents. Then Live Mesh came into the picture, and it lets me automatically sync documents between our PC’s and cell phones – really awesome!

All of these three services are really good, but currently none of them is perfect, and the problem is that they do not work together at all. Below is a comparison of some of the features. All three services can be accessed from a standard browser and has features for sharing files and documents with other people.

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October 31, 2008

Introduction:

OPENRSM CloudBackup is a service that lets you store files and backup data securely to a nearly unlimited remote backup storage vault. OPENRSM have placed no restrictions on CloudBackup. Unlike other services, you can store as little or as much as you want. You pay a flat fee (which get’s you a BIG datastore) and only pay extra for the actual storage you use in excess of that.  It works the same on Windows, MAC, and Linux systems as well.

The CloudBackup volume can be accessed as a network disk, or using your browser.), over WebDav or via the local http server. Keeping a local cache for immedicacy of operations (and background completion) is a big feature of OPENRSM CloudBackup. The builtin backup utility works well and previous versions are kept if desired. This makes CloudBackup work for backup as well as a remote filesystem since it works with native tools like rsync, robocopy, etc.  Block level incremental backup is supported through CloudBackup.

The best features are:

• Facilitates worry-free, automatic backups
• Keeps your data safe
• Unlimited storage at per GB pricing. No complex math. No maximum limits
• Supports multiple systems
• Offers backup reporting to keep you informed
• Works just like a disk
• Provides online backup and storage for every computer you own.  Servers, Desktops, Notebooks

Who this is designed for:

Since it’s so powerful, OPENRSM CloudBackup can automate offsite backups for business or personal systems, as a distributed data store, and …

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