Category: Carbonite

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Carbonite Offers Non-Profits Three Tips to Prepare for Giving Season

    Carbonite just released three great tips for helping non-profits to help keep their data safe. Keeping good regular backups are important for business, but they are even more important for non-profits who often rely on volunteers.   Carbonites three tips from the press release are: Perform continual backups, not periodic.¬†Data mishaps rarely occur with a…

  • Backblaze vs. Carbonite

    Backblaze and Carbonite are two of the easiest online backup services you can use at the moment and are two of our more popular services that we have reviewed. In many ways the services are similar but they are very different in how they perform their backups.   Backblaze takes the approach to backup everything…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Carbonite and Drobo Join Forces

    Drobo and Carbonite are teaming up to offer Drobo business customers a deal. They can purchase a 14-month subscription of Business or Premier Business cloud backup from Carbonite for the price of a 12-month plan. If you don’t have a Drobo yet this could be a great time to get one for your business. It…

  • NASDAQ Welcomes Carbonite to the NASDAQ Global Market

    I don’t follow the stock market very often but I did take notice that today is the first day for Carbonite to start trading on the NASDAQ. They trade under the ticker symbol CARB. Following the news lately I know that the stock markets have been unsettled so it is nice to see Carbonite going…

  • Carbonite Introduces New Small Business Online Backup

    Carbonite is the latest online backup service to launch a small business backup option. They currently have two plans:   Business Price: $229.00/year 250 GB backup storage space Additional storage is available for 50 GB for $46/year or 100 GB for $89/year Business Premier Price: $599.00/year 500 GB backup storage space Supports Microsoft Windows Server…

  • Carbonite CEO David Friend Named as Information Technology Executive of the Year Finalist in 2011 American Business Awards(SM)

    Looks like Carbonite is in the news again, this time their CEO is up for an award. Interesting to hear about.   The complete news release is included below for your information. Want to know more about Carbonite online backup? Read our complete Carbonite Review for more information. Start Backing up with Carbonite Click here…