I see a lot of little companies poping up in the online backup and recovery space. And Evault just got bought by Seagate.
And that makes it a big year? I personally wouldnt trust another site to store my files when its just as easy and far cheaper to back them up myself! I suppose tho with computer illiteracy as large as its becoming, people will be foolish enuff to pay!
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November 18th, 2008 @4:13 pm
And that makes it a big year? I personally wouldnt trust another site to store my files when its just as easy and far cheaper to back them up myself! I suppose tho with computer illiteracy as large as its becoming, people will be foolish enuff to pay!
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November 18th, 2008 @4:39 pm
Because people (previous answerers notwithstanding) are starting to realize that online backup is a good system. With the advent of faster and faster broadband connections, people can be assured of a good, safe backup.
Most online backup providers have clients that encrypt your backup before it leaves the machine. At the provider I work with, they don't have your key, and don't want it (so don't lose it)
It's painless. After the first backup, it is incremental; with some using delta-block (so your whole .pst doesn't need to be uploaded when one email comes in.)
It's cheaper than ever. Under $9 a month for 50GB from a good provider. Watch out for the 'unlimited' providers… Read the fine print about 'above average use'.
Offsite. Offsite. Offsite. - Your external HDD is going to go up in smoke with your main PC in a fire. Even 'store the backup at work for the home machine' didn't play out to well for some Katrina victims I've worked with. Try an online backup provider like http://www.backuptotheweb.com; Your data uploads to one state, then is immediately replicated to another data center 300 miles away!
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http://www.backuptotheweb.com
November 18th, 2008 @4:53 pm
A recent survey by VARBusiness Magazine polled over 600 mid-market and enterprise IT decision makers, asking what their priorities were in 2006 and how they spent their budgets. Participants in the survey listed backup and disaster recovery as their number two overall priority for 2006, sandwiched neatly between infrastructure investments for both security and networking.
This is great news for everyone involved in data backup and recovery. It indicates that businesses of all sizes are taking data protection seriously and that they are investing in backup-related services and technologies. Also according to the survey, Regulatory Compliance will be among the hottest trends of 2007. This projection is supported by the fact that numbers one and two on the ’06 priority list, security and backup respectively, are core components in virtually all compliance plans and requirements.
So, in short, the reason that backup will be big in '07 is a combination of heightened awareness of the service by consumers, lower cost-of-entry for the service by businesses and consumers alike, and greater security and compliance initiatives at the corporate, SMB and SME level.
tg
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VAR Business Magazine, Remote Backup Systems, Inc. http://remote-backup.com
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No idea, only an idiot would back up his data online.
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