Cloud Storage Buzz

Homepage DeskThere are many different threats to keeping your data safe. Hard drive failure, computer theft and disasters like fire and flood can cause you to lose all of your precious personal and work files in an instant. Backups are essential to keep your data safe and thanks to the improvement in cloud storage and backup solutions you have a number of choices to keep your data safe and sound. With so many services available to the consumer it can be difficult to sort through all of the options to find the best for you. Take a look through our reviews and our ratings to help you find the perfect cloud storage or backup solution for you.

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Our 2023 Top 10 Cloud Backup Services

These ten services are our top choices when it comes to cloud backup.

  1. Backblaze – Read our review
  2. CrashPlan – Read our review
  3. Carbonite – Read our review
  4. IDrive – Read our review
  5. SOS Online Backup – Read our review
  6. SpiderOak – Read our review
  7. Acronis – Read our review
  8. SugarSync – Read our review
  9. ElephantDrive – Read our review
  10. Zoolz – Read our review

Latest Posts from the Blog

  • Backblaze Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deal
    2012 Bacblaze Black Friday code can be found here. Tomorrow is what has become know as Black Friday and the Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals are starting to roll out for many of the online backup services. I have seen a sneak peek of some of the deals this year and there are some good …
  • Backblaze Review Updated
    Backblaze released version 2 of their backup client not long ago and since then I have been trying out the new version. The new unlimited file size and improved large file backup are nice new features to have. No longer do you have to worry about files being missed because they were over the 4GB …
  • Backblaze Welcomes Backify Customers
    While the drama between Backify and Livedrive seems to have ended with Backify finally closing its doors there is some good news to come out of all of this. Backblaze has come to the rescue of Backify users with a great offer. This is a great chance to save 10% on your initial purchase of Backblaze. …
  • Advisory Notice from Livedrive Regarding Backify.com
    Got an interesting email this morning from Livedrive regarding one of their now former resellers, Backify. Backify made a splash roughly a month ago when they opened the doors and offered users 512GB of space for free. They promptly ended that promotion stating in another press release that they had 50,000 users signup. At that …
  • CrashPlan+ Gift Subscriptions
    CrashPlan has begun offering gift subscriptions for CrashPlan+ just in time for gift giving this Christmas. Them and Backblaze are the only two services I know that offer the ability to purchase gift subscriptions of their services. If you click though to the CrashPlan website you will also be able to take advantage of a …
  • Dropbox’s Roadmap Sounds Like Bitcasa
    When you think about Dropbox your first thought is probably that special folder on your computer where you save things that you want to have access too on all your devices. While this might be a great advancement for many of us it is actually a pretty limited feature. You only get access to the …
  • Has Carbonite had a Privacy Breach?
    Yesterday Richi Jennings posted an interesting article over at ComputerWorld outlining what appears to be a problem with Carbonite users getting spammed. In the article Mr. Jennings started getting spam email to the email address he used exclusively with Carbonite which lead him to believe either “Carbonite has either sold my personal details, or has …
  • Carbonite Launches HomePlus and HomePremier Plans and New Features
    Carbonite launched the new features that they talked about back in September. It is great to see Carbonite catch up to what some other services are already offering. To summarize the new features Carbonite is adding they are:Full system backup Backup and restore for external hard drives Automatic online backup for video files Recovery-by-mailAlong with new features comes new …
  • Review Dropbox
    I get a lot, and I do mean A LOT of people leaving comments here on the Dropbox Review looking to increase their free Dropbox space by leaving their Dropbox Referral code. It got so bad at one point that I considered closing comments down on the Dropbox review to stop it. I was telling my …
  • Test Page for Google GDrive?
    TechCrunch had a post this morning with some interesting screenshots that I was still able to duplicate. It appears that searching Google for “Writely” shows a page in the Google search results partly with the title “test page for Platypus (GDrive)”Clicking through does not show much, just an error page for Google Docs. Perhaps the …