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Top 10 Online Backup Services

Top 10 Online Backup Services

Every month I review a huge amount of online backup services and then boil it down to a list of the best 10. Go and check it out!

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Tuesday Backup and Storage News Roundup

June 12, 2012

Hardware and software share the backup spotlight this Tuesday with Seagate and Amazon both releasing new products for the cloud and backup enthusiasts among us. Seagate Unveils New Backup Plus HDD’s Contrary to what you might think, we don’t have anything against backing your information up to a hard drive; in fact we suggest you [...]

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Cloud Storage Makes Sense? You Bet It Does (Now, More Than Ever)

June 11, 2012

A Sys-Con Media release claims that small and medium enterprises now feel that cloud backup and storage does make sense for many enterprises and individuals today. According to a release on eWeek , it’s now proven that more and more businesses – small, big or medium – find it more necessary than ever to take [...]

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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Cloud Implications

June 7, 2012
iStrobe

Bring your own Device (BYOD) is a term used to denote the practice of employees bringing their own Smartphones and Tablet computers to the workplace. While there are many benefits of this practice, there are potential issues of security and confidentiality of data that arise from this practice. Let us consider the flip side first. [...]

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June is Backup Awareness Month

June 6, 2012

Less than three months after celebrating World Backup Day, we have another international awareness celebration to… well… celebrate. It turns out that June is Backup Awareness Month. That’s right, backup nerds (including the ones that are crazy about the cloud) have something else to celebrate this month; plus, we now have another reason to bother [...]

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Boxee Announces Cloudee, a Dropbox-like Video Sharing App

June 5, 2012

Many of the people out there who have chosen to “cut the cable” — an expression meaning to drop your cable provider, often replacing them with an online streaming service of some kind — have done so by using Boxee. Boxee as a company has been around for a few years now, and even though [...]

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How to Chalk Out a Personal Plan for Data Storage and Backup

June 4, 2012
Storage Plan

Just because cloud backup and storage gives you an easy, super-efficient option to store your data, it doesn’t always mean that the cloud solutions just rendered hardware useless. I still don’t trust any one vendor so much that I’d dump all my files, data, and years of work into any one cloud back-up solution. On [...]

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Top 10 Free Cloud Storage Services of 2012

June 4, 2012

Everybody seems to be talking about the cloud lately. Especially in regards to online storage, new providers are appearing on a daily basis, often offering ridiculous amounts of free storage. The more the price per gigabyte decreases, the stiffer the competition gets and the cheaper we as the consumer get our precious cloud storage — [...]

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Are You Really Safe on the Cloud?

May 31, 2012
Bellissima

While advancing the cause of cloud applications, cloud service providers are clouded with security issues which constitute a major hurdle to its spread. In a comment appearing on cloud tech, Ian Moyse quoting the results from (Cloud) Adoption and Trends Survey appearing in ‘Cloud Industry Forums, 2011’ states that 64% single out Data security as [...]

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ZipCloud: Zip your Files Digitally, Easily

May 28, 2012
ZipCloud

Ian Leighfield, business development manager of ZipCloud, once stated in a press release  that ZipCloud is all about sleek design; cool looks; unlimited storage; and plenty of groundbreaking features are the primary reasons for differentiating ZipCloud from ever growing competing heads in the cloud backup and storage solutions space. Launched in 2011, ZipCloud seems to [...]

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SurDoc Offers Users 20GB of Free Storage and Syncplicity is Acquired

May 26, 2012
SurDoc

SurDoc Offers 20GB of Free Storage SurDoc, a well known document backup service, has recently announced that they will be offering users up to 20GB of free cloud storage. The only catch? You have to refer your friends to SurDoc in order to receive the extra storage. If you’re a current SurDoc user and want [...]

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Get the Best of Both Worlds with Hybrid Clouds

May 24, 2012

With more than 50 percent of enterprises moving some or full part of their operations to the cloud, it has become the norm for enterprises and their CIO’s to worry about failsafe options and disaster recovery. While for some there are worries about whether keeping data in the cloud is foolproof and secure, for the [...]

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How to Deal With Free Cloud Storage Overload

May 21, 2012

Trouble with the cloud-based backup and storage industry is that there are way too many vendors. While that’s not bad necessarily, it just makes you cry what with having to choose between all those options.As I’d later admit in this post, I could never arrive at one single solution because of options, choices, and the [...]

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#6 Interview with Steven Ferman – eTegrity

May 18, 2012

In this weeks podcast I talk with Steven Ferman from eTegrity. We discuss interesting topics like cloud backup, the future of online storage and backup, how business should backup data and much more. Join this interesting conversation on the Online Backup Podast powered by Cloudbackuping.com.

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Get More Space for Your Dropbox Account Free With Dropquest

May 17, 2012

Admittedly we’re a bit late telling you about this one, but there’s still time if you’re a Dropbox user and you would like to get your hands on some free extra storage. Dropquest, which is an online scavenger hunt done annually by the well known cloud storage company Dropbox, went live last Saturday and offers [...]

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How Pixar Nearly Lost Toy Story 2 to a Bad Backup

May 16, 2012

You’ve heard Mauricio tell you time and time again that you need multiple backups. Onsite, offsite, cloud based and non-cloud based; however you choose to backup your files just make sure that there is more than one copy of it and at least one of them is off-site (meaning far away from the other backup). [...]

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What You Need To Know Before Going for Cloud Backup Solutions

May 14, 2012

There’s the real cloud, and there’s the illusionist, fake, and make-believe cloud. It’s not too difficult to imagine countless vendors trying to do business to capitalize on the hype of cloud computing. When you backup your data using one of the many cloud data backup solutions which ones do you go for? Are you sure [...]

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Dropbox vs. SkyDrive: Why I Switched

May 14, 2012
SkyDrive

I’ve been a Dropbox user since the service launched in late 2008. Since day one, I was a big fan of the service because of its simple user experience, fast syncing and good mobile apps. I’ve kept the service because I haven’t seen any good alternatives–until now. With the recent release of the SkyDrive Mac, [...]

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Something You should Know about Security and Safety of Cloud Storage

May 11, 2012
Top 10 Ways to Get Attention on Flickr, All New, Fresh and Updated for 2010

The explosion of digital information means that almost everyone has a lot of megabytes or gigabytes of information that needs to be stored. Whether you want to store digital photos, music that you have paid for, videos – both personal and commercial, or documents, you need to be sure that they are easily accessible when [...]

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Pogoplug Team: A New “Personal Cloud” Solution for your Business

May 10, 2012

What is Pogoplug? You may remember Pogoplug as the cloud storage company that put a new twist on the concept. In addition to offsite backup in the cloud, they also offered the option to buy a Pogoplug device and hook up whatever size harddrive you wanted to that device. In this way, all of the [...]

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20GB iCloud Bonus Extended and BackBlaze Announces May Coupon Code

May 9, 2012

Anybody fond of saving money will enjoy the fact that at least a few companies are looking out for your wallet this Tuesday. Big players in the cloud storage game, Apple and BackBlaze are extending and sending savings your way. Apple Extends 20GB iCloud for MobileMe Users Until September 30th Whatever your opinion on Apple, [...]

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