WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., January 6, 2010 — /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced release of its IDrive Lite application for the Android platform, in addition to iPhone and Blackberry.
IDrive Lite (http://www.idrive.com/idrive-lite/) allows users to backup their contacts on their mobile devices to their accounts [...]

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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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IDrive Online Backup Now Supports 4 languages: English, Spanish, Japanese and German
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Dec. 1, 2009 — /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, is proud to announce that IDrive Online Backup (www.idrive.com) is now available in the German Language.
The localized German version of IDrive is available [...]

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September 16, 2009
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced updates to its IDrive Lite application for iPhone and Blackberry.
IDrive Lite (http://www.idrive.com/iphone-backup.htm) allows users to backup their contacts on their mobile devices to their accounts into the cloud and also enables [...]

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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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Clark Computer Care, LLC makes taking care of computers easy with its help desk, e-mail, and phone support.
Indian Harbour Beach, FL, September 04, 2009 –(PR.com)– Clark Computer Care, a remote computer service and maintenance provider has made it easier to protect your valuable data. “We have partnered with IDrive an on-line backup provider,” says a [...]

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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 [...]

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July 21, 2009
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced that IDrive Online backup (www.idrive.com) is now available in the Japanese Language.
The localized Japanese version of IDrive is available at http://www.idrive.com/japanese/.
This commences IDrive Online Backup’s foray into penetrating the Japanese Market. The [...]

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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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April 27, 2009
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced that IDrive online backup (http://www.idrive.com/) has added numerous new improvements, functions and features to its online backup offerings over the last few weeks.
“IDrive now supports Spanish, and will soon support Japanese and other [...]

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February 23, 2009
By Neil J. Rubenking
Check Point software has released ZoneAlarm Extreme Security, a “super suite” combining all the features of ZoneAlarm Internet Security 2009 with ZoneAlarm ForceField, a virtualization-based browser protection solution.
The new suite also adds hosted online back-up and a PC Tune-up option. All of the suite’s other features remain unchanged, including the [...]

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December 30, 2008
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ — IDrive, a leading online backup service provider, today announced that IDrive online backup (http://www.idrive.com) has introduced a new functionality called ‘Time-Line Restore’ that lets users restore all the selected data from a point in time.
While IDrive always had the versioning capability where an individual file can [...]

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December 14, 2008
When you are facing an emergency evacuation from an overseas posting or a long-term expat situation, you need to transform your household into a highly-portable operation that can be transplanted on short notice. There are numerous technology tools that can help you with a rapid, but comprehensive, household transition.
When you are facing an [...]

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By PETER WAYNER, New York Times
Last update: October 28, 2008 - 4:25 PM
Now cost-effective and readily available, online backup options begin to make sense
“My wife’s computer crashed first,” Francis Wade lamented. His followed a few weeks later, as if part of some malicious digital conspiracy.
“God knows what happened to it. Windows started to misbehave. I [...]

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By PETER WAYNER
NYTimes
Published: October 22, 2008

“My wife’s computer crashed first,” lamented Francis Wade. Then his followed a few weeks later, as if part of some malicious digital conspiracy.
“God knows what happened to it. Windows started to misbehave. I couldn’t get into anything. It got progressively slower and slower.” It was so slow he couldn’t even [...]

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October 10, 2008
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced that IDrive online backup (http://www.idrive.com) continued its growth course registering robust growth for the first 9 months of the year. IDrive’s subscriber count tripled in the last three quarters [...]

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September 26, 2008
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced that it is launching a national TV Campaign with the ‘Did you back it up?’ theme in conjunction with the release of Version 3.0 IDrive Online Backup software.
The Campaign’s focus is [...]

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September 23, 2008
Here is the summary of PCPro’s ratings:

By Stuart Andrews
Amazingly, according to research from Harris Interactive last year, 35% of PC users in the UK still don’t have any sort of personal backup regime in place. Given the ever-increasing threat of malware, the risk of hardware failure, and the less than perfect stability of [...]

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September 04, 2008
Courtesy of the Bonnier Group Publications
Online Backup Review of 8 companies: Keepit, Norcube, Idrive, Box.net, Mozy, Adrive, Backup2Net, and BuddyBackup
Bonnier Group Publications recently reviewed the above eight online backup companies based on:

Storage space
User friendliness
Security, and
Functionalities
Please click here to read this well written 6 page review

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September 02, 2008
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced that it is making an entry in Cloud Storage (http://www.idrive.com/oss/).
Cloud Storage is a fast growing concept dominated by the likes of Amazon’s S3. Many large corporations including IBM and HP [...]

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September 01, 2008
Companies Reviewed Include:
AllMyData, Badongo, BeInSync, Box.net, Carbonite, DivShare, DriveHQ, Drop.io, Dropboks, ElephantDrive, eSnips, FilesAnywhere, FolderShare, GetDropBox.com, iBackup, iDrive, in.solit.us, JungleDisk, MediaFire, MegaUpload, Mesh, MobileMe, Mozy, MyBloop, Omemo, Omnidrive, Openomy, OrbitFiles, SkyDrive, Steekr, SugarSync, SwapDrive, Wua.la, XDrive, Yahoo! Briefcase, and Yuntaa
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The past several weeks I’ve been scouring the web in search of the best [...]

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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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August 22, 2008
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ – Pro Softnet Corporation, a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service, Online Backup and Storage market, today announced that its newest offering, IDrive for Mac (http://www.idrive.com/idrive-for-mac.htm) is now out of beta.
IDrive (http://www.idrive.com) for Mac application was released in beta in April 2008, and has been quite popular with [...]

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August 20, 2008
Last week we took a look at different options for backing up, storing, and sharing data files with online storage services. This week we will take a look at services which are more secure. IDrive uses AES 256 bit encryption for its online storage service. Transfers of data to the [...]

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By Matthew Latterell
July 30, 2008
This article includes a summary review description and a comparison table for 5 Online Backup Companies: Carbonite, Idrive, JungleDisk, Mozy and Xdrive
Editor’s Note: Xdrive has now officially joined the deadpool
A computer backup is like car insurance. You know you need [...]

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www.backupreview.info
Backup Review Rating:

(4 stars out of possible 5)

http://www.idrive.com
Summary
IDrive, is a service offered by Pro Softnet Corporation, an ASP and Internet Solutions Provider, based in Woodland Hills, CA.
IDrive offers 2GB of free online backup space to its clients with every subscription. For this free 2GB offer, there are no backup and restore restrictions or bandwidth limits [...]

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IDrive for Mac Finder Plug-in integrates with Mac OS X, making access to user’s IDrive account on Mac as easy as opening a Finder window.
Woodland Hills, CA (PRWEB) June 24, 2008 — Drive(http://www.idrive.com) introduces the IDrive for Mac finder plugin for its popular IDrive for Mac offering - an Online Backup service for the Mac [...]

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May 27, 2008
A German web site reported on their attempts to hack into a number of leading online backup services. Of the services tested, they were unable to break into either Carbonite or Mozy, both of whom appear to do a good job with client authentication.
The article claims that several other online backup services, [...]

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IDrive introduces IDrive for Mac, an Online Backup service for the Mac OS X platform. The Mac version sports the same ease of use and efficiency features for the Windows platform. Pricing for the service remains same as windows as well, starting at $4.95/month for 150GB of storage for personal use. A 2GB option is [...]

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by Michael Muchmore
Where’s the best place to keep your backed-up data? Somewhere far, far away. These online services will keep your data safe no matter what sort of disaster strikes your local PCs.
Local backup to external or optical drives is an excellent practice, but it can’t always protect your precious data. Just ask director [...]

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