Comments on: Backupify Gets Funded — But Will You Use It?

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:40:14 +0000

"...it’s likely to take an even bigger one to back up data that’s already in the cloud with another cloud-based service."

So, you have your data on some site in the cloud, there is no user back-up solution (only the in-house server back-ups - and we all know how well that works...), but then storing it on another cloud-server would become an issue? Isn't the basic principle of back-up 'the more the merrier'? A back-up in the cloud is always better than none. True, it would be ironic if your back-up inadvertently would reside on the same server as your live-site - but you pay that back-up service to avoid so? Does S3 look into that as well?

Sorry, but sounds like flawed logic to me.

By: Why GigaOm is right (and wrong) about Backupify

Why GigaOm is right (and wrong) about Backupify — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:03:29 +0000

[...] Monday, Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm offered his reaction to Backupify getting VC funding. Put simply, Ingram was skeptical about the future of our company. He made some fair points. We [...]

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:17:37 +0000

Congrats to Rob and Backupify for raising funding after successfully rebranding & repositioning themselves. I’m frankly not sure how consumers will get comfortable storing data in the cloud, altho it is an inevitable trend. Even the US govt requires federal agencies to have a cloud strategy (I know, not necessarily an endorsement): http://bit.ly/bhykBx. The best analogy I can think of is streaming vs. downloaded music: why waste your time and disk space downloading music to own, when you can simply access whatever you want to listen to on any device for a lower cost, a la Spotify? But it’s taken consumers years to adjust to this concept.

Shameless plug: in addition to backing up in the cloud, you might want to check out Silentale.com, a social CRM, currently in free beta. Silentale automatically provides you with a 360° view of the people you know, including your conversation history with them, by consolidating & indexing your contacts, messages & attachments from emails, social & business networks into a single, searchable archive. Shannon from Silentale.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:22:47 +0000

There is another option to backup data to cloud storage powered by Amazon S3. Check out CloudBerry Backup http://cloudberrydrive.com/ . It is one time fee and the rest what you pay for Amazon S3

By: martinsoler

martinsoler — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:51:00 +0000

As a photographer I am interested. Would need to work out how it would work though as GBs go fast with raw images and a few tiffs. But having an online backup of my stuff would definitely make me feel safer.
http://martinsoler.com/
PS: Nice cloud shot that’s got to be HDR.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:59:54 +0000

That's a great point, Dilip. Many web services use Amazon for at least some of their storage and hosting, which of course is already redundantly backed up by Amazon.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:57:43 +0000

No fair, Rob -- you work there :-)

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:57:06 +0000

That's a good point -- thanks, Rob. It got a lot of attention though, and it seemed to become a lightning rod for people's fears about losing control over their data in the cloud.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:36:57 +0000

yes please

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:35:58 +0000

Hi HSK, Please note that we are new, which is why we only offer XML right now. Longer term we will offer many other ways to view your data, it just takes a while to build all of that.

Cheers, Rob