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MyPCBackup Releases Update
MyPCBackup sent out emails announcing a recent update to their online backup client. The new update should increase the speed of your backups. Here is a copy of the email I recieved. Hi John, I wanted to contact you personally to give you some exciting news. We have launched a major new update to…
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CrashPlan Mobile Apps Released
CrashPlan today announced the release of both iPhone and Android apps for easy mobile access to all of the files you have backed up to the CrashPlan Central servers. Back in July CrashPlan announced that they had acquired a mobile development company called Recursive Awesome. Not a bad turn around time for developing their…
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Mozy Launches the Mozy Data Shuttle
The Internet is fast and getting faster every day, but it is still not as fast as shipping a hard drive full of data to Mozy to seed a MozyPro backup for your business. Mozy has launched what they call the “Mozy Data Shuttle”. Details about the new service from Mozy include: Available for…
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Carbonite to Release New Features
Looks like Carbonite is going to start taking some of the features of Backblaze and CrashPlan seriously. They do not even have these new features available yet but released a news release that they are going to be adding new features. To summarize from the press release here are the new features coming to…
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SOS Online Backup for Mac Released
Looks like SOS Online Backup has officially released their Mac client. As I mentioned in an earlier post about SOS Online Backup the Mac client was coming. Nice to see it actually arrive. Considering how well the SOS Online Backup works on Windows it will be interesting to try the new Mac client. Next time…
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Best 5 Mac Online Backup for 2011
Macs are not invincible and are prone to some of the same failings of all computers. Hard drives die, it is a fact of life, so you need to be prepared. Online backup is a great way to keep your files safe and available for when the time comes and your hard drive meets its…
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Small Businesses Are Not Prepared for a Data Disaster
Carbonite has released a study that says most small businesses are not prepared for a data disaster. Given the number of small businesses I get calls from regularly this comes as no surprise. It is not hard for a small business to protect their data with online backup, it just takes a little time to…
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Bitcasa will have Linux Client
When I wrote the post about Bitcasa last night I was not sure if they would have a Linux client available for their cloud hard drive service. I took a few seconds to tweet out to them today and ask. There was reply was that they would have a Linux client. This is great…
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Bitcasa – Your Online Hard Drive
If Dropbox was your cloud based USB drive, Bitcasa wants to be your cloud based hard drive. Bitcasa was founded in 2011 by former employees of Mastercard, VeriSign and Mozy and looks like it will be available for most operating systems and mobile platforms. Hopefully that will include Windows, Mac and Linux. The service is…
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SOS Online Backup Secures $3 Million Series A Round
Read on TechCrunch today that SOS Online Backup has raised $3 million in Series A funding. Nice to hear that they are getting additional funding. Another interesting tidbit from the TechCrunch article was the mention that SOS Online Backup has 500,000 users. Not bad for a company that is going up against bigger players…
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