Comments on: Online Storage I Could Use

By: Max

Max — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:30:42 +0000

Hi, for a secure, fast and reliable backups of all your important data you have to try an online service like IBackup for Windows (www.ibackup.com/ibwin_new.htm). None other than PC World recently rated IBackup as the `best all-around’ service’ in a review of online backup services.

You can do quick and safe backups of files and folders with IBackup for Windows. It has several subscription plans that suit a wide variety of users. Another great feature about IBackup for Windows is that you can try all their features during the free trial itself. The advantages of using IBackup for Windows are many. IBackup does incremental and compressed backups, which greatly reduce your network bandwidth by transferring only portions of file that were modified.

You can easily restore files from the Snapshots of files maintained in your IBackup account. Using IDrive (www.ibackup.com/IBDrive_new.htm) you can map your online IBackup account as a network drive on your computer. You can then drag and drop files to the IBackup account from the Windows explorer. Data can be shared by creating sharable links and emailing these to partners or colleagues for collaboration using Web-Manager.

By: Angelas

Angelas — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:37:50 +0000

This article is really useful, am considering getting online back up at the moment. Saw BT’s Digital Vault was launched this week and was thinking about that, but Carbonite seems to blow that away. Good to know the founders have been around for a while too.

By: Daniel Drucker

Daniel Drucker — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:49:41 +0000

I’m surprised you didn’t start this article right out with a discussion of Amazon S3!

You should take a look at Jungle Disk – free software, GPL’d format, fifteen cents/gigabyte, built on Amazon S3.

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:22:45 +0000

Thanks. There have been a *lot* of road warrior backup services and none has broken through to the big time. Carbonite looks to be a game-changer: simple, cheap, secure. Sure, they’ll have customers they’ll lose money on, but the huge majority will be profitable.

The whole, “we have some market power so let’s shaft the customer” ethic irritates me. What business school teaches that? How about simply offering the best product you can and making a fair return?

The Carbonite guys aren’t teenagers, either. They’ve been around the block on several startups. I think this is the real deal.

By: Robert Pearson

Robert Pearson — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:18:39 +0000

Another Home Run!
Your batting average must be well over .500.
I could really have used the Carbonite service when I was a “Road Warrior”.
The service I did use was very good, for a while, but it was also $150/month
and in the megabytes. Of course, over 56k dial-up gigabytes would have been
very impractical.
The “very good, for a while” is because they got into what I call “Creative Marketing”, which means you try to raise your prices by offering “Value Add” services without having a clue what your base services are, much less any “Value Add” services, how they work, or do they work, and what the customer really wants.
You put this so well in your post “Pimp My Standard: Vendor Theatre of the Absurd”.