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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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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By Gerry Blackwell
July 15, 2009
Amazon’s Simple Storage System (S3), one of the online bookseller’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) products targeted mainly at developers, offers some of the cheapest online storage available. Given Amazon’s size and how critical its IT/Internet infrastructure is, it’s also a good bet S3 will be among the most reliable and secure storage going.
But to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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February 26, 2009
And so goes the story of one of the slickest online storage and backup services to launch in the past year.
Upline users today received an email from Hewlett-Packard stating that the service would be discontinued effective March 31, 2009.
As of Feb 26, 2009, backup data will not be sent to Hewlett-Packard’s servers. [...]

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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 [...]

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February 05, 2009 - TORONTO - (Business Wire) Valentine’s Day is about love and taking time to nurture relationships. In these tough economic times, it can be difficult to find affordable ways to show you care. But there’s one partner that doesn’t expect chocolates, gifts or grand gestures – your computer.
It might seem like a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Jan 15, 2009
First 100 New Customers to Sign Up in January Receive Small Business Survival Kit and 50 Percent Discount for Life on Online Backup Services
TORONTO–(Marketwire - January 15, 2009) - Data Deposit Box, a leading online backup and storage provider, is offering a break from this winter’s gloomy outlook for beleaguered small business [...]

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January 13, 2009

Today Keepit.com has signed a long term distribution agreement with Parallels, one of the world’s leading providers of virtualization and automation software solutions. The deal brings Keepit.com’s ultra simple backup-solution to over 10 million SMBs through Parallels’ Service Provider network.
CEO Frederik Schouboe of Keepit.com:
“This contract is a landmark in our efforts to become [...]

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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, [...]

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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, [...]

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November 16, 2008
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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 [...]

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Backup Review Rating:

(4.5 stars out of possible 5)
Reviewed on October 26, 2008
Summary
While the vision and mission of a business is critical its success, the security of its data is critical to its very existence in the market. Data Deposit Box offers a non-intrusive, secure backup system that ensures data security with [...]

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By Paul
Oct 8, 2008
I have written several posts regarding backing up your data. I have mentioned many different forms of media that you can use to keep your data safe. Over the past four months I have been using an online backup solution called Mozy.
While I have written about Mozy in the past, I will [...]

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October 3rd, 2008
Add-In Review - KeepVault Online Storage for Windows Home Server www.keepvault.com
After reviewing a product that billed by the gigabyte I was anxious to try something that was potentially unlimited. Little did I know by the end of my testing, the entire review would change with some big news from Keepvault.

This review was practically [...]

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October 04, 2008
By Jimmy Bergmark
SpiderOak has (and will have) some unique features that other solutions I have used like Mozy and Carbonite does not have.
I think SpiderOak works pretty well and is easy to use. I’ve had a few issues and some of them will most probably be fixed within a few months. With the [...]

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Backup Review Rating:

(4 stars out of possible 5)
Reviewed on Sep. 26, 2008
Summary
Keepit.com is part of a group of companies, under a parent company called Cohaesio. It is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Cohaesio’s core competencies in managing infrastructure, support for a large number of customers and complex storage solutions allowed Keepit.com to easily enter the online [...]

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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 09, 2008

Now and then an online storage provider comes along and offers features so unrealistic (for free) that one wonders how on earth that company will survive. Nine times out of ten, they do not, and their domain names soon join the endless wasteland of spam parking.
Along comes MyBloop, a free online service that [...]

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Reviewed by
Jon L. Jacobi
September 05, 2008
Pros
Offers local and Web access
Includes file sharing and backup
Cons
No free version available
No added security features
This online backup service is a good option if you need a lot of online backup space plus file sharing.
In a world where 2GB of online backup space costs nothing (at Mozy.com and Fabrik.com, for instance) [...]

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September 4th, 2008
It doesn’t matter how many backups you have of your data if they all reside at the same location.  Enter Off-Site backups.   The Jungle Disk Windows Home Server Edition BETA allows you to automatically backup your Windows Home Server shared folders to Amazon.com’s S3 Storage Service.
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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
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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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August 26, 2008
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August 19, 2008
Mini Reviews of 15 Free Online Backup Companies
Adrive Megaupload Humyo Xdrive Windows Live Skydrive 4shared DivShare Driveway iDrive Mediafire Easyshare Zshare Yourfilehost Rapidshare and Megashares
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned about couple of options by which you can share files with family and friends. Out of that list, some of [...]

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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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