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Mozy Support Community

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Shortly after releasing version 2.0 of the MozyHome online backup service, Mozy today unveiled their online support community at community.mozy.com.

Within the Mozy support community, you can post a message to the message boards, where a Mozy support staff or experienced user will respond to you, read the Knowledge Base, browse through Documentation, or view Video Tutorials. You can also file and follow-up on Support Tickets.

This is a huge improvement from the outsourced support system that was previously used. For users to be able to give feedback helps both the users (by receiving timely answers and direct answers to their problems) and Mozy (by allowing them to focus on customer-specific problems, versus general user-errors).

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IBackup Double Storage Promo

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

IBackup Promotional Offer

IBackup is running a Double Storage promo, but it ends tomorrow! Take advantage of this offer, signup for an IBackup account, or upgrade your existing account.

IBackup is a powerful online backup system, ideal for business use. But their higher monthly fees are typically a deterrent. With this double storage promotion, however, you can get twice the amount of storage, for the same price as before. Signup or upgrade your account now!

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IDrive for WordPress Plug-in

Monday, May 24th, 2010

IDrive for WordPress IDrive has announced a plugin for the popular blogging platform, WordPress, to backup your blog data to an offsite location.

The IDrive Plug-in for WordPress will backup your WordPress blog data (files and MySQL data) nightly. If you need to restore data, it’s immediately available in your IDrive online backup account.

Like IDrive’s online backup produce, the WordPress plugin will initially backup all data, and afterwards do incremental backups, only transferring files and data that has changed.

However, the IDrive plug-in only works with WordPress 2.8.5+ running on a Linux / Unix system with PHP 5.1 or higher.

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Tags: IDrive, Wordpress
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SugarSync in Japanese, IDrive in French

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Two online backup providers announced new multi-lingual versions of their applications today: SugarSync Continues to Spread Globally: Now in Japanese and IDrive Online Backup now in French.

Keep in mind these announcements are simply language translations of the existing applications, and does not mean SugarSync is adding data centers in Japan, nor IDrive in France.

In the past few months, SugarSync has added Spanish, Chinese and German language options, while IDrive boasts Spanish, German and Japanese versions.

Tags: IDrive, SugarSync
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Memopal for Mac

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Memopal announced today their Mac version exits beta, along with the release of an iPad version. To celebrate the event, five hundred licenses will be sold for $1.

Rome, May 19, 2010. Starting today, the final version of Memopal for Macintosh users is available at www.memopal.com. To celebrate the event, Memopal is offering five hundred Personal 200 GB licenses for a period of one year at the token price of $1. Plus, starting today, you can download Memopal for your iPad directly from the Apple store.

To take advantage of the promotion and purchase Memopal for Mac at the token price of $1, go to www.memopal.com and download Memopal, selecting the 200 GB option. You will be immediately redirected to the purchase page. Fill out all the fields as if you were purchasing a Personal license and enter ILOVEMAC in the DISCOUNT CODE field.

Thanks to the many comments we received, Memopal for Mac has been enhanced with two new features. The first gives the user greater control in selecting the folders to protect and the second allows for sharing folders with one click. Plus, starting today, anyone who invites other persons to accept the offer will receive 500 MB of space free for each invitation that is accepted.

Memopal automatically backs-up files online in real-time. It allows you to access and display the files exactly as they are organized on your computer. You can also install Memopal on an unlimited number of computers until you’ve used up the space you purchased.

Memopal makes is easy to access and share files, even from a mobile telephone. Memopal for iPhone allows you to access the files on all your computers and share them with friends and coworkers. Memopal is available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. You can access Memopal from any mobile phone with a web browser. Purchase a Personal 200 GB license for $1 right away at www.memopal.com.

For further information:

Memopal’s mission is to protect and organize the users’ files. Memopal stands out from the competition because the stored data is also synchronized, searchable and accessible as soon as it is uploaded to your personal online archive. Memopal determines the importance of files based on how the user interacts with them and they are synchronized using that priority. Further information: www.memopal.com

If you didn’t get one of the first 500 licenses at $1, you can still save 15% with a Memopal discount code.

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Mozy 2.0 Review

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

We’ve just finished posting our Mozy 2.0 review – check out all the new features Mozy has added in the latest version of their online backup software, including local backup to an external hard drive!

With these new features, Mozy has become the first online backup service to receive a full 5-star rating from OnlineBackupsReview.com

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Carbonite Releases BlackBerry App, Updates iPhone App

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Carbonite online backup users can now access their backed-up data anytime, anywhere, via their BlackBerry.

Carbonite Blackberry App Users of the popular BlackBerry smartphone can browse through their backup set, view common files (such as PDFs, images, Excel and Word docs) and share files quickly via email using Carbonite’s BlackBerry application.

In addition, Carbonite’s iPhone app has been updated, giving users the ability to sign up for a free trial from within the app and some new icons.

Carbonite offers unlimited online backups for $54.95 / year.

Tags: BlackBerry, Carbonite, iPhone
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Data Protection Infographic (Video)

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Storagepipe shares with us a video infographic explaining the importance of data protection, including online backup with encryption and data recovery.

It’s a great video explaining why it’s important to encrypt your data, back it up, test your backups, and what could happen to your business if you don’t have reliable backups.
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Reticulating Splines

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

If you use Mozy for your online backup service, you’ll notice the status, “reticulating splines” sometimes appears in the application. So, just what does this mean? Well, Mozy says:

Reticulation is a process whereby a continuous function is reduced to fixed points on a lattice, or network. Splines are mathematical representations of curves determined by a finite number of points. While processing and encrypting your files, MozyHome needs to reticulate your splines.

If that’s not helpful enough, read up on this intriguing term on Wikipedia’s page on Sim City:

SimCity 2000 was the first Sim game to feature the semi-nonsensical phrase “Reticulating Splines”, which means to make a network of splines. Will Wright has stated in an interview that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it “sounded cool.” The phrase has since been featured in SimCopter, SimCity 4, The Sims, The Sims 2, Spore and The Sims 3 (Reticulating 4D Splines), as well as being referenced by a status message in Mozy, an off-site backup solution offered by EMC Corporation.

So while Mozy is probably busy doing something when it reports “reticulating splines,” it’s probably not exactly reducing fixed points of a parametric curve on the network.

Mozy Reticulating Splines status message