Recent visitors may be familiar with our latest poll which is still running. Far from scientific, the current poll which was started on Monday of this week may run for a number of weeks before Backupanytime review the results. Rather than have the current poll results reviewed prior to the last poll we are therefore prompted to review the July poll results here and now.
In July we ran an online poll in order to determine the level of understanding of online backup which was attributable to our visitors. This was a visitor survey, not a test and therefore results [...] Continue Reading…
Online storage, movers, shakers, mergers and closures.
With all the talk of anticipated consolidation in the online storage market due in 2009, it is important to be aware that so far 2008 has not been bereft of position grappling.
xdrive to close (Data backup planned closure)
As detailed in an earlier post, xdrive is to close in early January. This is a planned closure by a giant parent company. This most unusual move sees clients being urged to avail of competing services before the closure date. Not good for the online backup industry. Once bitten, twice as reluctant to give scarce funds [...] Continue Reading…
All visitors are welcome to participate in this poll. Please be aware that any results only relate to those who participate and are not meant to be representative of any macro usage or opinion. Data may be reviewed by all users.
The above poll uses the following variables:
Security, Confidentiality, Data retention period, Price, Support, Interface and usability, Open file management, SQL and Exchange compatability, Frequent (free) software updates & Same region data store.
Findings may be published for this and other Backupanytime polls as Backupanytime review the results.
Constructive comments generally and comments regarding any recommended features for future polls are welcome.
Twitter is huge and unlike many things in the world today, it is on the up. If you don’t know what it is you shouldn’t be reading a post on how to backup twitter. So, now that you are still here, lets assume you not alone know what twitter is but you arrived here because you were looking for information on how to backup twitter.
Why would you do this?
The obvious answer is to protect your list of twitter followers and the list of people you are following. Not specifically to protect them personally but [...] Continue Reading…
Online backup was initially the domain of University communities, then the military, soon afterwards major corporates. Large companies were still the greatest online backup uptake category in late 2007. This year however has seen significant advances in the adoption of online backup by small and medium sized business.
An online backup industry article from byte and switch dated 19th June 2008 quoting researchers In-Stat explained that firms with over 100 people on the payroll were three times more likely to utilise online backup than say a small business. What this article did not address however is that this disparity shows not [...] Continue Reading…
