In case you haven’t heard, Mozy, one of the main players in online backup, has discontinued their unlimited backup plan, moving to plans based on usage and the number of computers that you have. Now, for $5.99 you get 50 GB for one computer, or for $9.99/month you can use 125 GB for up to […]
Continue readingIn honor of the fact that I am writing this while at Macworld Expo, I thought I would point out an article from Macworld’s website. DocumentSnap reader Brooke (a name that doesn’t at all bring back painful childhood taunting memories) pointed out this article: Which online backup service is right for you?. If you’re thinking […]
Continue readingI always appreciate it when people put their decision-making and evaluation thought processes online when making a purchase. It helps not only them (to write it out) but the rest of us too. I came across this post by Jonathan Camp over at irondojo where he runs through his evaluation of Mozy, Jungle Disk, and […]
Continue readingSince I’ve done quite a few Mac posts lately, I thought I’d throw something out for my awesome Windows users (don’t worry Windows faithful, I have even more coming soon). A while ago Mozy released their version 2.0 software, but for Windows only (the Mac version will be out later in 2010). I thought I’d […]
Continue readingAccording to the Mozy blog, the online backup company has just updated their Mac client. The biggest functionality that they have added is the ability to exclude types of files from your backup. Seems like pretty critical functionality for a backup client but hey, who am I to judge? Here’s a list of the enhancements […]
Continue readingDid you know that datacenters worldwide use up as much energy as Sweden? Neither did I, but it is one of the many things I learned from this awesome post by Mozy from a few weeks ago where they put together a bunch of stats to show how much data a petabyte actually is. Awesome! […]
Continue readingPhoto by technicool Recently, Om Malik wrote a post called The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds. The article is about slow upload speeds in general – you can have the fastest download speeds in the world, but for many tasks that involve uploading, even our broadband is excruciatingly slow. One of the things Om […]
Continue readingRecently 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 […]
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