Insurance Networking News: For individual consumers, the value of cloud-based backup sites — such as Dropbox, Box, Carbonite, and Microsoft OneDrive — can become apparent very quickly, especially if one’s PC hard drive crashes. The idea of backing up files and pictures in the cloud takes a way a lot of worries.
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Carbonite announced that it has eliminated its throttling policies and expanded its bandwidth capability.
“We know that our customers have a lot of data – from the files that help them run their business to family photos – and they need it backed up quickly,” said David Friend, founder and CEO, Carbonite. “We agree, and are delighted to announce that the capability of our customers to achieve faster upload speeds is greatly improved.”
Carbonite Increases Home Bandwidth Capabilities
As a result of the increase in upload bandwidth, new Carbonite Home users can now achieve the same upload speed as Carbonite Business users. The average small business can back up all of their business email, contacts and calendars in about 70 minutes (assuming an average 5GB Outlook .pst file), and a new Carbonite Home customer can now back up two hours of HD video in less than an hour.
200GB Throttling Cap Removed
Carbonite has also removed the 200GB throttling cap for new Carbonite Home users, so they can experience the same upload speed capabilities from the first gigabyte of their backup to the last. Over the next several months, this change will be rolled out to existing Carbonite Home customers with backups greater than 200GB.
Carbonite announced it has been selected to participate with Comcast on Upware from Comcast Business, which launched today. Together, Carbonite and Comcast will deliver cloud solutions for small businesses that may be conveniently purchased and managed from one central location.
The Upware marketplace is a suite of cloud-based business solutions that can be purchased through one easy-to-use web portal. It contains a carefully selected list of third-party, cloud-based business applications from industry-leading companies in key categories such as data backup, data security, document collaboration and web collaboration. Upware is designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses looking to use cloud-based solutions to simplify their IT systems, control costs and increase productivity.
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The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council named Carbonite CTO Jeff Flowers winner of the 2009 Technology Leadership Award, CTO of the Year. The Technology Leadership Awards recognize the best and brightest technology innovators and leaders in the Bay State. As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Carbonite, Flowers manages architecture and development of Carbonite’s state-of-the-art online backup service. Flowers evaluates industry trends and oversees the implementation of new features for Carbonite’s consumer and small-business products.
Details: http://www.carbonite.com/newsroom/press_releases/PressRelease.aspx?topicid=27065
Carbonite announces the availability of Carbonite 3.7.6, which supports the new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system (OS). Carbonite 3.7.6 allows customers to back up their photos, music, documents and other valuable files using an encrypted system and secure servers. Once the Windows 7 installation is complete, users simply recover and restore files using the Carbonite Restore Wizard.
Details: http://www.carbonite.com/newsroom/press_releases/PressRelease.aspx?topicid=27064
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