Web Backup Guide

Mozy, the web backup provider has announced a huge growth in take-up of it’s online backup software from companies in the accounting and financial services industries as businesses push to reduce the cost of their IT infrastructure.
Against the contunuing backdrop of economic gloom, Mozy’s reports of triple-digit growth is a real indication that IT spend [...]

EMC is using it’s Information Honors program to reward students from the more than 300 colleges and universities within the EMC Academic Alliance. Selected students who achieve the highest grade point averages in information storage and management for the 2009/2010 academic year will be rewarded with an Iomega Network Storgage device and a 2 year [...]

Atlanta based Nomadesk has announced it’s entry in to the US web backup market.  Their software goes some way beyond simple online backup offered by others such as Carbonite, BackBlaze or Mozy by offering multi-user filesharing.
The Nomadesk system allows team based collaboration by simulating an off-site network file server. Teams can store, synchronize and share [...]

Mozy, the online web backup company, has released version 1.4.3 of it’s
software in a hurried attempt to fix a bug that prevented Apple Time
Machine users from backing up to their Time Capsules.
Following an earlier release of a Mozy update some users of the Apple
Time Machine / Time Capsule combo started to experience problems.  On
the 13th [...]

Competition in the web backup business is hotting up with the three main contenders for online backup software, Carbonite, Mozy and Backblaze, all offering similar applications with unlimited backup space.

There are some differences through and, here, we look at the three systems and provide a comparison for the home and small business user.

All three are [...]

Life has turned digital and, these days, it seems that everything we are is stored digitally somewhere.  It’s all pretty convenient until, that is, your hard drive crashes, your laptop gets stolen or you misplace one or more of the files.  Then the nightmare begins.  Of course, it’s no great problem because we all read [...]