StorageMojo.com has looked at dozens. These are the coolest.
So why not just shout out backup? While any remote data site could be used for backup, these folks are either doing more than backup or they are doing backup particularly well.
| Name | Service | Audience | Cost | Coolness |
| Carbonite | Unlimited Windows Backup | The Masses | $5/mo | Encrypted, Cheap, Easy |
| Cleversafe | Secure, reliable business storage | Business | In Beta | A Paranoid’s Happy Place |
| Gmail | 2.7 GB capacity, email too | Geeky Cheapskates | Free | Storage With An Email Face |
| Openomy | 1 GB Multi-app data store | Developers | Free For Now | Open WinFS for Hipsters |
| S3 | Rent-A-Gig | Developers | $0.15/ per GB/Mo. | Industrial Strength Web Service |
If you are an individual please see Backup Cheatsheet: Backing Up and Letting Go for a few words of hard-earned wisdom.
If you are a VC these are ideas that the Next Big Thing will use.
Who else should be on this list? Comments welcome.
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Another neat one is from Colo/hosting company Johncompanies: http://www.rsync.net/
Jungle Disk ( http://www.jungledisk.com ) is a really nice front-end for S3 — Windows, Mac, and Linux, free, and distributes an open source package that shows how the data is written, so anyone is free to write their own compatible alternative (i.e., no vendor lock-in).