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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Backing up your data. Review of the popular online-backup services

Traditionally, consumers of services Service network backup of data were small offices. But now, according to IDC, network services backup ready to receive corporate clients. In a research report issued by IDC, says that the market for data backup services online in 2007 was $ 235 million, a 2011 increase to 715 million dollars.
Faced with an avalanche-like increase in the number of data, IT-managers are options online backup data as seriously as the traditional "internal" operations such as disaster recovery or storage. The problem of service providers - to show users that the network backup is safe and does not adversely affect other network operations.
Service backup online have several features in common. All of them use the Internet to transmit information to remote data repositories, and also offer automatic backup of the computer is idle, or scheduling backups during non-working time. System administrators can adjust the scheme of backup data to any computer. Disaster recovery and restoration from backups are also performed via the Internet.
Unlike services, data backup online is the price of services, speed and management capabilities of the remote backup. Best backup-service broadcast over the Internet only data that has changed since last backup. They also regulate the speed of data transmission, in order to backup service does not consume all the bandwidth on the Internet. Published prices often reflect the value of simple backup-services. The exact price in case the need for disaster recovery or other advanced features service management, need to figure out your sales representative for the network provider.
Entering the market network backup storage of large retailers - another good sign for the IT-managers. So, lately, EMC acquired Berkeley Data Systems startup and its service network backup Mozy, IBM has entered into the possession of Arsenal Digital Solutions USA Inc., And Seagate Technology LLC bought EVault Inc. According to IDC, many users are willing to try backing up your data online only if it will be offered one of the largest data warehouses. It is well known that Microsoft is preparing its own service network backup, and there is evidence that Internet giant Google eyeing this market.
Corporate IT-Manager, the possibility of online backup data is useful to know the leading sellers of this area. Here are some of them.
MozyPro. Service belongs to a startup Berkeley Data Systems and stores the data in earthquake-resistant data center in Utah (USA). Berkeley and Mozy bought in 2007, EMC paid for the $ 76 million deal. The service offers basic price 3.95 dollars a month for the backup of each computer, plus 50 cents per month for each gigabyte of stored data.
Arsenal Digital Solutions USA Inc. The company was founded in 1998 and has long specialized in data protection for distributed environments. She now stores 20 petabytes of data in 65 data centers. Its key services: ViaRemote - office data protection for PCs and servers (including virtual servers with VMWare), ViaBack - for applications and servers and ViaManage - for local protection of data. Company was acquired by IBM Corporation in 2007.
EVault Inc. EVault acquired in 2001, one of the pioneers of network backup software - ISP VytalNet Inc. and has become one of the leaders of the differential backup data online. The company offers a service to backup disk-to-disk on the network and local variants. There are products such as desktop PCs and servers. In 2007, EVault was acquired by Seagate.
iDrive Pro. Is a service of Pro Softnet Corp., ASP-provider based in California (USA). The company offers 50 to 500 GB of disk space for a monthly fee of 9.95 to 49.95 dollars.
SOS Online Backup. The company was founded in 2001 in Australia and launched operations in the U.S., Europe and India. Business-product company - SOS for Servers.
AmeriVault Corp. The company was founded in 1998 and specializes in backing up data online and in the service lifecycle management of data. Provides services to continuous data protection and duplication in real time, as well as automatic recovery in case of data loss.
Iron Mountain Inc. This provider offers backup of PCs and servers, data recovery, as well as cataloging and retrieval of digital documents.

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