Backblaze has published a lengthly blog post were they carefully outline how they were almost acquired recently.
It’s no surprise that a company like Backblaze would be the target for acquisition. Their online backup service simply works, and their Mac client is a favorite amongst Apple fans. But just who were the suitors?
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Carbonite, the online backup service provider based out of Boston, ranks #9 on the Inc 500. With 2009 revenue of $19.1 million and a three-year growth of 11,207.6%, Carbonite not only ranks #9 on the Inc 500, but also #1 in Boston and #1 in IT Services
Congrats to Carbonite and CEO David Friend!
Backblaze has announced version 1.5 of their online backup software with two major improvements:
The newest beta release of Jungle Disk, version 3.1, now includes public online disk sharing. Now, you can create new online disks and make them public, giving you the ability to share the data using a conventional URL.
This allows users to share files with others who many not necessarily be Jungle Disk users.
Since Jungle Disk uses Amazon S3 to store the data, public data accessed by external users will be charged to the creator’s account. Selecting Rackspace to host the files will not incur bandwidth charges, as Rackspace only charges for data stored, not bandwidth used.
Scott Gibson from Jungle Disk adds,
this feature is not designed to be leveraged as a CDN service. We do have limits in place to prevent excessive downloads and abusing the service.
Additional features added to beta release 3.1 includes the ability to change sub-account passwords and to be able to search through the list of servers (versus scrolling through them all).
Read our Jungle Disk review or download Jungle Disk now and try these features out for yourself.
Lately we’ve seen anti-virus companies partnering with online backup services to bundle the offerings into a single package. We’ve seen McAfee, CA and CyberDefender partner with Mozy, and Kaspersky team up with SugarSync.
But Trend Micro, a global leader in Internet content security, announced today a definitive agreement to purchase online storage and data synchronization company humyo.
humyo has established itself as a leading online storage provider with its easy-to-use, yet technically powerful solutions. Its customers benefit from automatic data synchronization of files to a secure online storage center across all their computers and Internet-connected devices. humyo enables superior organization of data and removes the manual effort of moving files from one PC to another, which is not only time-consuming but subject to potential data loss. Using a Web browser, consumers and small businesses can protect, access and share important files, anytime and anywhere. Optionally, customers can download a client, which synchronizes files across all their computers and enables access to humyo through an extra hard drive on their PC — even when offline.
humyo offers 100GB of online storage & backup for $6.99 / month, with each additional 100GB increment another $9.99 / month.
If you’re interested in a free account, you can get 10GB of online storage (5GB of media files, 5GB of other documents) free for life.
SafeCopy Backup has increased the allotted space for their backup subscriptions from 150 & 250 GB to 200 & 300 GB.
You can now get 200 GB of online backup space for $50 / year, regardless of how many computers (Windows, Mac or Linux) use the space. Or, for $75 / year, get 300 GB of backup space.
With SafeCopy Backup, you can backup whatever you’d like – even if its stored on a USB or NAS drive.
Read our full SafeCopy Backup review; if you’re ready to sign-up, save up to 10% using a SafeCopy coupon.
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).
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.
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.
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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