ExEasy NetCDP(TM) announced the availability of NetCDP Online Backup Software, an extremely easy to use and secure online backup software application for consumers and businesses to back up files to Amazon S3 or NAS servers.
(I-Newswire) November 8, 2009 - Freemont, Calif. — ExEasy NetCDP(TM) LLC (www.netcdp.com) announced the availability of NetCDP Online Backup Software, an [...]

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August 17, 2009
CloudBerry Lab has started a second phase of beta testing program for CloudBerry Online Backup – an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.
Disaster recovery planning is often times an afterthought that comes to light when disaster strikes. Very seldom do companies fully recover from loss [...]

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July 30, 2009
Easy to use, low cost remote backup solution for FileMaker files
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–360Works, a leading FileMaker product developer and innovator, announced today the launch of 360Works SafetyNet, the first automated offsite backup plugin designed specifically for FileMaker Server solutions.
SafetyNet makes it easy to set up remote backup routines for FileMaker Server administrators. Files are [...]

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December 14, 2008
James Deaton is the technology director of OneNet, our Oklahoma State Regents‘ network, and he’s one of the smartest people I know when it comes to educational technology and networking. Several months ago James told me about some video transcoding solutions he’d read about which utilize Amazon Web Services, and we discussed the [...]

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Monday, December 01, 2008
By Matthew Shaw
As part of Amazon’s AWS service they provide online storage at very low rates via the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 combined with the S3 Amazon Firefox Add-on provide an extremely easy to use means to upload files via the Firefox web browser.  Just open the add-on that resides [...]

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By Judy Mottl
November 26, 2008
CloudFront, a self-serve, pay-as-you-go content delivery network service, aims to put Amazon in the company of tenured content delivery network (CDN) providers like Akamai, Limelight and CDNetworks.
Currently in beta, CloudFront is aimed at users needing frequent access to Web site components, developers distributing software and small businesses publishing media files. The [...]

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July 04, 2008
Amazon S3 service can be used for a variety of purposes. You can use S3 service to host your media files to play videos/audios on your website without compromising on the speed or quality … or you can use the S3 service to maintain your online backups. The possibilities are endless …

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June 23, 2008
SmugMug has always allowed everyone to upload an unlimited number of web-displayable files - JPEG, GIF, PNG, and MP4 - but to date we haven’t been able to accept the RAW files generated by modern digital cameras. For years our customers have been asking, begging, and pleading for us to let them upload [...]

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June 04, 2008
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nirvanix, the premier “Cloud Storage” platform provider, today announced that performance of its Storage Delivery Network is averaging 200 percent faster downloads than that of Amazon S3 for large files, including media, according to [...]

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March 08, 2008
By Adam Turner

After struggling to recreate my Windows backup regime on Ubuntu and now Leopard, Amazon’s S3 unlimited online storage offers the perfect multi-platform solution when combined with Jungle Disk.

Jungle Disk is backup software that connects to Amazon’s online Simple Storage Service (S3). The online service offers unlimited storage capacity on enterprise-grade data [...]

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February 17th, 2008

 
I’ve been thinking about subscribing to an online backup service for a little while; after all while a scheduled backup system to an external drive / NAS is all very well, if something should go seriously wrong (heaven forbid), you really need an offsite backup of your most critical data. There’s only so [...]

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February 15, 2008
Amazon’s S3 service down as reported in these links:
From NetWorkWorld.com:

Outage hits Amazon S3 storage service - Amazon isolates problem, but some troubles persist 
From www.bmighty.com:
Amazon’s Data Storage Service Goes Down, Leaving Businesses Stuck
 
 
www.webware.com:
Amazon storage ‘cloud’ service goes dark, ruffles Web 2.0 feathers
From blog.wired.com:
Customers Shrug Off S3 Service Failure
From www.thewhir.com:
Amazon Web Services Faces Outage
From storage.blogs.techtarget.com:
Another [...]

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Wednesday January 9, 8:15 am ET
 
 
Enterprise Users Can Now Use Zmanda to Harness Amazon S3 for a Complete Data Backup, Archiving and Disaster Recovery Solution
 
 
 
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zmanda™, the open source leader in backup and recovery software, today launched an enterprise data backup solution for Amazon Simple Storage Service™ (Amazon S3). Businesses using Zmanda’s flagship backup [...]

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Friday September 14, 2007 7:35AM
by Micah Walter in Apple Aperture
One of my favorite features in Aperture 1.5 is the ability to store my master image files anywhere I want. By using the Relocate Masters and Manage Referenced Files functions in Aperture’s file menu I can easily take care of the task of spreading my RAW [...]

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By Ann Silverthorn
September 7, 2007
When start-up Nirvanix decided to develop a business-to-business storage delivery service (SDS), it considered the Amazon S3 storage service as its major competitor. As Nirvanix launched this week, it listed quite a few advantages of its SDS over Amazon’s S3. Both companies provide on-demand Internet storage for upload businesses, such as [...]

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By Michael Arrington
August 07, 2007
 
Look for new San Diego-based Nirvanix to launch in the next few weeks. It aims to compete with Amazon’s popular S3 storage web service and provide web developers another choice for online storage.
 
The company, which is affiliated with online storage startup MediaMax (aka Streamload), should also be announcing a $12 million [...]

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August 5, 2007
By Terrence Randell
Amazon S3 is my online backup facility for about a month now. I find it to be reliable and love the peace of mind off-site backup gives me. I decommissioned one of my 250GB drives already from using their service. My test drive was to trust my 95GB photo and music [...]

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Thursday July 12, 12:00 pm ET

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 [...]

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By Beth Pariseau, News Writer
08 Mar 2007 | SearchStorage.com
 
Since its inception last April, Amazon.com has been billing its Simple Storage Service (S3) as a tool for online companies and Web developers to store and serve content, but some Web 2.0 companies said the service has room for improvement when it comes to retrieving stored items [...]

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April 17, 2007
Michael Arrington
 
While I was busy announcing the upcoming TechCrunch20 conference and picking fights with venture capitalists today, Dan Farber was covering the news at the Web 2.0 Expo. One of the more interesting disclosures to surface: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announced that their S3 storage-on-demand service, which launched just thirteen months ago, surpassed 5 [...]

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By Mitch Wagner,
12:21 PM ET, Apr 10, 2007

Since I converted to the Mac two months ago, I’ve been playing Russian Roulette. I haven’t had a good system for doing backups. But that changed Sunday when I discovered the Amazon S3 online storage service which, when used with the free software Jungle Disk, provides a [...]

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July 12, 2006 05:00 AM US Eastern Timezone
 
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 12, 2006–Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN):
– Altexa, Amazon.com, Elephant Drive, Jungle Disk, LA NACION, MediaSilo, Microsoft, and SmugMug among companies storing more than 800 million total data objects using Amazon S3 from Amazon Web Services
Early World Cup victories by Argentina triggered a flood of website traffic for the country’s [...]

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