Simple solution allows small businesses to easily back up and get back valuable data
BOSTON - February 2, 2010 - Carbonite, Inc., today announced Carbonite Pro, a version of its market-leading online backup service specifically designed for small businesses.  Carbonite Pro is aimed at companies that want to protect the data on all their PCs easily [...]

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By Wade Roush
January 27, 2010
The first thing you should know about Carbonite, the Boston-based online backup company, is that it is indeed named after the ice-like substance in which Darth Vader encased Han Solo at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. David Friend, Carbonite’s co-founder and CEO, even has a replica of the frozen Solo in [...]

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By Editors at http://www.BackupReview.info
January 22, 2010
Carbonite®, a leader in online backup, is bridging the iPhone to computer gap with a newly available Carbonite iPhone application allowing users to browse, view and share backed-up files remotely at any time.
Features of the new Carbonite iPhone app include:

Browse: Users can browse backed-up files via an iPhone or iPod [...]

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Investment to back new product innovation and international expansion
Boston, MA - January 8, 2010 - Carbonite®, a leading provider of online backup, announced today that it has closed a mezzanine round of funding that provides approximately $20 million of new capital. This brings the total financing raised by the Boston-based company to approximately $67 million. [...]

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By Brian Nadel
January 5, 2010
Reviews of Carbonite, IDrive, Mozy and SOS Online Backup Services
No time or place to back up your hard drive? Try stashing your files online.
Computerworld - If your New Year’s resolution was to make sure you have secure offsite backups for your important data at home, then relax: There are a number [...]

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By Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret, Inc.
December 14, 2009
Recent discussions about SAP’s Business byDesign have highlighted the importance of multi-tenancy as a component of on-demand software economics.
Fellow Enterprise Irregular blogger, Anshu Sharma, who is an employee of Salesforce.com, explains that multi-tenancy aligns the interests of software vendors and customers:
Multi-tenant software businesses work very hard to keep the systems up and [...]

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Carbonite Chief Technology Officer Wins Mass Technology Leadership Council Award
Flowers recognized for achievements with solid, scalable technology platforms
Ed.: We covered this award on November 15, 2009 here
BOSTON, Dec. 1, 2009 —  The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council named Carbonite CTO Jeff Flowers winner of the 2009 Technology Leadership Award, CTO of the Year. The Technology Leadership [...]

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By Christopher Null: The Working Guy
November 24, 2009
So your new laptop computer died in inside of a year. “I’ll never buy a computer from [insert manufacturer name here] again!” I’ve heard the protests time and time again.
Yeah, maybe you got a lemon, but no matter which brand you bought, you truly are not alone in [...]

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By David Friend, CEO Carbonite Online Backup
November 24, 2009
Small businesses usually fall into one of three areas when it comes to backing up their business files. The first group isn’t backing up their data at all and is truly playing with fire. According to U.S. Dept. of Labor Statistics, 43 percent of all businesses that [...]

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Any Operating System Upgrade Carries the Risk of Catastrophic Data Loss
BOSTON, Nov. 20, 2009 — Carbonite®, a leader in online backup, announces the availability of Carbonite 3.7.6, which supports the new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system (OS).
Carbonite 3.7.6 offers two main benefits for consumers upgrading to Windows 7:

Protection of users’ valuable files in case of [...]

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November 15, 2009
By Bill Blinn, http://www.techbyter.com
Click on the links below to listen to the podcast …
David Friend Explains Carbonite Online Backup’s Technology, Part 1 (Audio 5:07)
David Friend Explains Carbonite Online Backup’s Technology, Part 2 (Audio 1:13)
Podcast #169 in the link below captures the above 2 posts and more. The first 16 minutes are about Carbonite [...]

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By: Chris Preimesberger
November 12, 2009
Customers who purchase Seagate FreeAgent Desk or Go model external hard drives will receive an option to back up their desktop or laptop system plus the attached external hard drive through Carbonite’s service for an annual fee of $59.95.
Online backup provider Carbonite and hard disk drive maker Seagate Nov. 12 announced a [...]

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By Hiawatha Bray
Globe Staff / November 13, 2009
High-tech firms in high demand in Bay State
Silicon Valley giants have been shopping for acquisitions in Massachusetts, buying and partnering with key companies from this state’s much-vaunted technology industry. As businesses long known for their local roots join with or are absorbed by ventures from California, the question becomes: What [...]

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October 22, 2009
How Can We Compete With the Big Boys?
By JENNIFER WALZER
In response to a previous post, one reader asked an important question that I would like to address here. Andy, who runs an online backup company of his own, wanted to know how to compete with the two big, low-cost entries in the field, Mozy and Carbonite.
That’s a [...]

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Never Lose Important Electronic Documents, Treasured Family Photos, or Expensive Music Downloads Again - Cablevision Announces Optimum Online Backup
New Optimum Online® Backup Powered by Carbonite Offers Secure, Reliable and Easy-To-Use Online Data Backup Solution for Macs and PC’s with 2GB’s of Backup Available For Free For Optimum Online Customers
Bethpage, NY (PRWEB) September 24, 2009 [...]

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By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
17 Sep 2009 | SearchDataBackup.com
Hybir Inc. has just wrapped up a public beta of its Hybir Backup online PC data backup service, which it plans to make generally available in October to challenge established competitors such as EMC’s Mozy and Carbonite.
Hybir claims it can perform backups and data restores or [...]

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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):

Product
Star Rating

BackBlaze 
3.0

Carbonite
2.0

CrashPlan Central
4.5

IDrive
3.5

MozyHome
3.5

JungleDisk
3.5

JungleDisk Plus
4.5

SpiderOak
1.0

By Glenn Fleishman, Macworld.com
Backups work best when you have multiple copies, at least one of which is both current and offsite. [...]

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Find corded landline phone and back-up computer files remotely.
Madison, Wis. (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 24, 2009 — Hurricane season is here. Meteorologists are on the look out for the next big storm. Thankfully, businesses and consumers alike have time to prepare. At TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS™) the Network Operations Center in Madison, Wis. monitors weather patterns and alerts 24/7 [...]

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August 21, 2009
Network Backup Corp. vs. AllMyData Inc. et al
Sued companies include:

AllMyData

Best Buy

Carbonite

EMC Corp.

Iron Mountain

Netmass

Officeware doing business as FilesAnywhere.com

Pro Softnet

Webroot Software 

Plaintiff Network Backup Corp. (NBC) is a Texas corporation with its principal place of business in Longview. According to the complaint, U.S. Patent No. 5,133,065 was issued July 21, 1992, for a Backup Computer Program for [...]

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By David Friend, CEO of Carbonite
August 18, 2009
Having a backup plan in place to protect against IT infrastructure failure is crucial for businesses. David Friend, CEO Carbonite, looks at how SMEs with a limited IT budget can ensure secure off-site backup is implemented to avoid losing precious data.
The statistics are staggering: every year 43 per [...]

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August 4, 2009
By Rob Cosgrove, CEO Remote Backup Systems, Inc.
I’m warning you in advance that I’m going to whine like a little girly, toss a fit, call you names, and blame you for a lot of stuff. So if you don’t want to hear this from a grown man who should know better, link away [...]

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July 14, 2009
Supports More Devices, Stores All Files/Versions Permanently, Syncs Multiple Machines
CHICAGO, July 14 /PRNewswire/ — Online data manager SpiderOak ranks as a Carbonite Killer in a feature-for-feature comparison of the two services, proving that all online data backup services are not created equal. SpiderOak supports more devices and operating systems, stores all backed-up files and versions permanently [...]

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By Lucas Mearian
July 13, 2009 
Which online service is right for you?
Computerworld - John Chunta had spent four and a half years writing his doctoral dissertation when, two weeks before its expected completion, his laptop’s hard drive crashed and he lost the 200-page document.
“The ‘blue screen of death’ is what the tech guy called it,” says Chunta, [...]

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July 07, 2009
Free Trial Promotes the Importance of Data Backup
BOSTON - July 7, 2009 - Carbonite, Inc., the leading provider of online backup to consumers and small businesses, announced today a consumer education effort and distribution program with Sun Microsystems. The distribution deal provides a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup(TM) to Sun customers who [...]

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June 18, 2009
Online data backup is gaining popularity as enterprise customers gradually get comfortable with the idea of keeping valuable backup files offsite at a trusted server.
Providers such as Seagate EVault, Iron Mountain Digital, EMC Decho/Mozy, Carbonite and IBM Blue Cloud have improved their services and are among those gaining credibility.
However, user confidence in the [...]

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May 20, 2009
Voters on CNET Web site name Carbonite a favorite online data backup application for consumers and businesses
BOSTON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ — Carbonite Inc., the leading provider of online backup services for consumers and small businesses, announced its selection by voters as a 2009 Webware 100 award winner on Webware, a CNET site. Carbonite’s [...]

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May 6, 2009
SmallBizTechnology.com interviews David Friend, CEO of Carbonite Online Backup (Video 7:42)

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By: Beth Pariseau 
April 28, 2009
“Do-it-yourself” infrastructure is a competitive differentiator among providers of storage services, I’ve learned in conversations with providers over the last two weeks. While not every Web 2.0 service is storage-focused, these discussions make me wonder what the results will be for third-party storage vendors looking to supply prepackaged configurations to service-provider data centers.
Following Carbonite’s lawsuit [...]

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April 10, 2009
By Bengaul
Back in March, I wrote an article about Carbonite, where I reported on a possible loss of data effecting users backups. Very quickly, we had a response to the post from the CEO of Carbonite David Friend, who stated that there had been a problem with the firmware on the Promise servers they were [...]

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By Robert Weisman Globe Staff
March 21, 2009
Carbonite claims bad equipment led to information loss
Carbonite Inc., a Boston company that backs up computer data for businesses and other organizations, is alleging that two other companies sold it more than $3 million [...]

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