Recently I came across this tweet from Ross L. Kodner and he brought up a good point – one of the benefits of an online backup is having your data safe and sound. If you live in a city that is prone to earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., it kind of defeats the purpose to have your […]
Continue readingIn the last few weeks, two online backup services, HP Upline and Yahoo Briefcase have both announced that they are closing. While some have said that this is a sign that the online backup market is not sustainable, both Mozy and Carbonite have been clever and used it as an opportunity . Nate from Mozy […]
Continue readingWe all know that staying up to date with software is generally important, but sometimes it can have unexpected side effects. Recently, a whole bunch of people started getting green checkmarks beside their document icons. For example, if you had a Word document, when you looked at it in Windows Explorer there would be a […]
Continue readingDave Friend, the CEO of Carbonite, wrote a blog post the other day about his experience actually using his product. According to a recently released survey by Compuware, most data loss is attributable to either user negligence or malice. Only 1% of data loss is due to hackers. I loved the headline on this story: […]
Continue readingOne common argument is whether it is better to back up to an external hard drive, or better to use an online backup service. In fact, I wrote an offline vs. online backup post a while ago. What doesn’t get mentioned a lot is that a lot of people (myself included) do both. It looks […]
Continue readingWow, there was a shakeup in the online backup space today. Rackspace, a well-known web hosting provider has bought Jungle Disk, an online backup provider. The cloud backup space is heating up. Jungle Disk provides an interface to Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service, which makes this deal a little strange. Many people think that Rackspace […]
Continue readingLifehacker has put together a pretty useful spreadsheet comparing a bunch of different online storage providers. Here’s our feature-by-feature comparison chart of the current roster of online storage services. (All of these services offer some form of security and privacy with uploaded files, along with, in most cases, the ability to share and/or collaborate on […]
Continue readingA new version of Carbonite (3.7) has been announced. Here is the PR-speak: “We spent a significant amount of time talking with customers for this upgrade of Carbonite,” said David Friend, founder and CEO of Carbonite. “We’ve always had the goal of Carbonite being the simplest online backup to use and we’ve been lauded for […]
Continue readingIf anyone has been wanting to sign up for Mozy’s Unlimited Service, I have a coupon code for you. It’s for 10% off all annual and bi-annual signups. To get the discount, click here to go to the MozyHome Unlimited signup page, and then enter the coupon code OCTOBER (really sneaky). Of course, if you […]
Continue readingI have to admit, I was not too familiar with the Mac Roundtable podcast until I saw people talking about it on Twitter. It caught my attention because the latest episode is all about going paperless, and the ScanSnap gets a lot of love in it. The podcast doesn’t just focus on the scanning aspect […]
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