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PC Backup Review: Test and Review of Carbonite Online Backup This service gets my highest recommendation. When you consider price, ease of use, and functionality, nothing beats it... [read more]
ChannelWeb: Finding The Right Storage-as-a-Service Partner Carbonite, of Boston, works with about 700 small solution providers to bring a simple, low-cost online backup service to small businesses and schools... [read more]
Lifehacker: Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners Best Windows Backup Tool: Carbonite. For $50 a year, Carbonite provides unlimited online backup and is another set-it-and-forget-it solution which offers off-site backup to remote servers... [read more]
IT World: A Simple Backup for Single Drives The answer sounds simple. Copy all data (not the operating system or applications) over the Internet to a data center. Continually protect all changes without the user having to do a thing. Make restoration even at the granular file level easy. Charge a nominal price for this service. That sounds too good to be true, but Carbonite has done it... [read more]
Pocket-lint: Carbonite - Mac For sheer simplicity and ease of use, we give Carbonite a thumbs up... [read more]
IT Reviewed: Carbonite V3.7.4 If you've decided to use an online backup service, Carbonite is the best in the business. There are many positive points that the service provides including ease of use, the security of off-site storage, and low cost. Unlimited backup is another major boon... [read more]
MacFormat: Carbonite Review - An ultra-secure remote backup to rival Time Machine Unlike many companies that have developed a PC application and then gone on to make a Mac version, the developers genuinely seem to have 'got' the Mac. The installation is a breeze, and the service itself is configured from a well-behaved System Preferences pane... [read more]
Computerworld: Consumers find rich array of cloud storage options Carbonite is among a handful of consumer storage services that are essentially just hard drives in the cloud -- simple, no-muss-no-fuss services. And the formula has worked for Boston-based Carbonite... [read more]
MacUser: Carbonite Product Review This good value online storage solution is so easy-to-use you'll have no excuse not to back up your files... [read more]
Fox Business News: Keeping Keepsakes Safe David Friend, Carbonite CEO, discusses how Carbonite backs up and protects the files and data on your computer... [read more]
Macworld: Carbonite online backup service supports Mac Carbonite enables Mac users to backup the contents of their systems whenever their Macs are connected to the Internet. The service provides unlimited storage capabilities, and can be automated for easy backup... [read more]
CNET: Webware 100 Winner - Carbonite Users install a small piece of software on their machine, which automatically syncs any new or changed files over a secured connection. In case of an emergency, you can simply use the software to get everything back, and because it's not localized to where your machine is, you can get that backup from wherever you have a connection... [read more]
Small Biz Technology: When Plain Backup Does More Than Backup: Remote File Access Carbonite introduced a new feature that gives users access to those files remotely from any computer. Files can be accessed individually with just an Internet connection. Small business owners who are traveling and forgot a presentation or contract can easily access the file from the road... [read more]
The Boston Globe: Dueling data backup firms are rare bright spot Mozy and Carbonite are two of the leaders of the online backup business, a rare bright spot in a gloomy tech economy. Rather than buying their own hard drives to save a copy of their data, consumers and small businesses pay a fee (Mozy's is $59 a year, Carbonite's is $50) to send their information securely over the Net, and have Mozy or Carbonite keep a copy that can be retrieved any time... [read more]
Boston Business Journal: Ouside the Box: David Friend When it comes to entrepreneurial spirit, David Friend has it in bulk. The chairman, CEO and co-founder of online backup company Carbonite Inc. has started six companies to date... [read more]
The New York Times: Carbonite Steps Up the Competition in Online Backup You'll be seeing and hearing a lot more about Carbonite soon, on television and radio ads and if you open a new Lenovo IdeaPad computer. The company just announced a new round of venture funding, which it will spend in part on consumer advertising, and a deal with Lenovo to preload its service on IdeaPad notebooks... [read more]
Xconomy: Carbonite Puts Its Online Backup Software on Lenovo Computers, Raises $20 Million All Lenovo IdeaPad and IdeaCentre computers - the company's lines of home and home-office laptops and desktops, respectively - will now come with Carbonite's online backup software pre-installed...the arrangement is a coup that could bring Carbonite tens of thousands of new users at a time when the competition for customers of online backup services is all about exposure, branding, and name recognition... [read more]
eWeek: Backup Becomes a Standard PC Feature What they need is something like Carbonite. They need a backup solution that's set-and-forget, and that doesn't get in their way. Making it a standard feature for a PC is good for the user and good for the PC company... [read more]
Byte and Switch: Online Backup Providers Add Mac Support "[Our Mac product] is going into beta this month, and scheduled for release in July," says David Friend, the Carbonite CEO, adding that the vendor has had to throw significant resources at building a user interface that would please the Mac community... [read more]
The Boston Globe: Backups Are A Breeze Online Based on our tests, you can't go wrong with either Mozy or Carbonite, but we'd give Carbonite the edge, thanks to its brain-dead simplicity and slightly lower price... [read more]
Computer Active: Review of Carbonite Online Backup Online backup has been around for a while but the idea behind Carbonite is to make it easier, so the user hardly even knows it's happening... [read more]
PC Magazine: Review Restoring files here and there was also a snap, and the price is attractive. The company's serious approach to security -- not un-encrypting your data anywhere but on your own machine -- is commendable... [read more]
USA Today: Carbonite gets personal about backing up PC files David Friend knew he was onto something when a computer crash wiped out his daughter's term paper and a friend lost precious baby pictures after her laptop was stolen... [read more]
PC Today: Safe Storage Online Carbonite does what it needs to do -- and does it well... [read more]
The 451 Group: Online backup specialist Carbonite locks up $20.2m in funding and targets IPO Carbonite has been targeting consumers and SMBs with under 50 employees for its online backup service (though occasionally it attracts larger customers) since it first launched the service in May 2006. The company's goal is to become the "McAfee or Norton" of online client backup... [read more]
PC Advisor: Carbonite 3.5 Review If you consider what you store on your computer, whether it's critical work documents or priceless family photos, backing up your files really is essential. And we can tell you now that Carbonite 3.5 is certainly a great choice... [read more]
Connected Home: How About Online Backup? Carbonite, known for its simple installation, now offers enhanced online Help, new account management pages, and an enhanced file-restore process... [read more]
Post-Gazette: Service Backs Up Computer Files Friend determined that more people would back up data if it were automatic, like traditional enterprise backup systems, and one-button easy. The first part was easy, but making it easy is tougher... [read more]
The Seattle Times: Online Backup is Safe, Cheap If your place burns down or your office is burglarized, there go your backups. But there is another solution and it's really coming into its own now that broadband connections to the Internet are becoming commonplace... [read more]
Converge Digest: Carbonite Raises $15 Million Carbonite, a start-up based in Boston, raised $15 million in Series B financing for its online backup services for consumers and small businesses. Carbonite said it recently backed up its one-billionth file since launching its service in May 2006... [read more]
PC World: Super-Easy Online Backups What I like about Carbonite is that you set it up once, and after that it just works. And unlike a local external hard drive, which is at risk if something catastrophic happens -- a house fire, for example -- Carbonite keeps your data off site, where it's safe... [read more]
TechCrunch: The Carbonite Solution What consumers really need is a dead simple service that backs up your entire hard drive to the Internet regularly. Boston based Carbonite is the closest to perfection we've seen so far... [read more]
Small Business Computing: Backup a No-Brainer Most backup programs, be they to a local drive or to an online service, require some degree of user interaction. They want you to choose a backup set, set a backup time and so on. You also need to work within the program's user interface. Not so with Carbonite... [read more]
RedHerring: Startup Gains $2.5M Online backup provider Carbonite said on Thursday it has secured $2.5 million in the first round of funding from two angel investors and a venture capital firm to extend its reach in the retail market... [read more]