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 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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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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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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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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March 16, 2009
BOSTON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ – Carbonite, Inc., the leading provider of online backup to consumers and small businesses, today launches Carbonite Online Backup for Mac. The product offers unlimited, automatic online backup for Intel-based Macs with OS 10.4 or 10.5. their backup by opening the Carbonite Preference Pane through System preferences. Under the Backup tab, [...]

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March 12, 2009
Carbonite users can now access their backed up files online anytime from any computer
BOSTON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ — Carbonite Inc., the leading provider of online backup services for consumers and small businesses, today announces the addition of remote file access to its award-winning online backup service. Beginning March 16, all customers using Carbonite Online Backup can access [...]

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March 05, 2009
BOSTON , March 5 /PRNewswire/ — Carbonite, Inc., the leading provider of online backup to consumers and small businesses, today announced a partnership with Acer Inc. to provide Carbonite’s award-winning online backup service to Acer’s consumer customers on select PCs shipping to the U.S. and Canada . As part of the partnership, Acer [...]

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February 05, 2009
BOSTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Carbonite Inc., the leading provider of online backup services for consumers and small businesses, today announced the expansion of its capacity and the opening of a new data center to support the company’s rapid growth. The new data center is in a collocation facility operated by Internap Network [...]

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By Scott Kirsner
January 25, 2009
Dueling Data Backup Firms Are Rare Bright Spot
Can comedy sell data protection?
A new crop of TV commercials from Mozy, a division of Hopkinton-based EMC Corp., features absent-minded people sliding their laptops into the microwave or leaving them on the lawn to be shredded by a lawnmower - all in hopes of [...]

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December 19, 2008
By Jesse Noyes
When it comes to entrepreneurial spirit, David Friend has it in bulk. The chairman, CEO and co-founder of online backup company Carbonite Inc. has started six companies to date. In the past, Friend has mostly focused on the business-to-business market. But these days Boston-based Carbonite, which provides backup security over the [...]

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November 23, 2008
Scott Kirsner at http://www.FutureForward.com had a “fireside” chat with David Friend, CEO of Carbinite, an online backup company and Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact.
Click here for the 35 minute audio chat
Future Forward (FF) is about building bridges, making connections, sharing experiences, and establishing relationships between the most creative people and companies.
Source page: http://www.innoeco.com/2008/11/fireside-chat-with-gail-goodman-and.html
FF [...]

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October 31, 2008
By David Fried, Carbonite Online Backup CEO
According to a recently released survey by Compuware, most data loss is attributable to either user negligence or malice. Only 1% of data loss is due to hackers. I loved the headline on this story: “3/4 idiots, 1/4 bitterness.”
I have to confess to being part of the [...]

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September 05, 2008
By David Friend, CEO of Carbonite
As reported by By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post Staff Writer, on Friday, August 1, 2008, Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies [...]

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By Om Malik
Sunday, August 31, 2008
My post, How to standout in a sea of storage startups resulted in a spirited conversation, including some really insightful comments here and else where on the web. Raghu Kulkarni, CEO of Pro Softnet, a Woodland Hills, Calif.-based company said not only he is selling his IDrive and IBackup offerings, [...]

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Boston, July 25, 2008
The news that AOL is trying to sell off xDrive in a fire sale (asking price: $5M vs. estimated $30M they paid) says a lot about the difficulty of mixing business models. When we were out raising our first round of venture capital two years ago, I can’t tell you how [...]

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