Carbonite in the News
Fox Business News: Keeping Keepsakes Safe
David Friend, Carbonite CEO, discusses how Carbonite backs up and protects the files and data on your computer [watch segment]
ChannelWeb: Finding The Right Storage-as-a-Service Partner
Carbonite, of Boston, works with about 700 small solution providers to bring a simple, low-cost online backup service to small businesses and schools...[read more]
Computer Active: Review of Carbonite Online Backup
Online backup has been around for a while but the idea behind Carbonite is to make it easier, so the user hardly even knows it's happening. ... [read more]
The Boston Globe: Backups Are A Breeze Online
Based on our tests, you can't go wrong with either Mozy or Carbonite, but we'd give Carbonite the edge, thanks to its brain-dead simplicity and slightly lower price ... [read more]
Ft. Myers News-Press: Consider Carbonite
When I was ready to download my XP data from Carbonite to my new Vista hard drive, it performs flawlessly. ... [read more]
Byte and Switch: Online Backup Providers Add Mac Support
"[Our Mac product] is going into beta this month, and scheduled for release in July," says David Friend, the Carbonite CEO, adding that the vendor has had to throw significant resources at building a user interface that would please the Mac community. ... [read more]
The 451 Group: Online backup specialist Carbonite locks up $20.2m in funding and targets IPO
Carbonite has been targeting consumers and SMBs with under 50 employees for its online backup service (though occasionally it attracts larger customers) since it first launched the service in May 2006. The company's goal is to become the "McAfee or Norton" of online client backup. ... [read more]
PC Magazine: Review
Restoring files here and there was also a snap, and the price is attractive. The company's serious approach to security -- not unencrypting your data anywhere but on your own machine -- is commendable.... [read more]
PC Today: Safe Storage Online
Carbonite does what it needs to do -- and does it well. ... [read more]
USA Today: Carbonite gets personal about backing up PC files
David Friend knew he was onto something when a computer crash wiped out his daughter's term paper and a friend lost precious baby pictures after her laptop was stolen... [read more]
PC Advisor: Carbonite 3.5 Review
If you consider what you store on your computer, whether it's critical work documents or priceless family photos, backing up your files really is essential. And we can tell you now that Carbonite 3.5 is certainly a great choice. ... [read more]
PC Backup Review: Test and Review of Carbonite Online Backup
This service gets my highest recommendation. When you consider price, ease of use, and functionality, nothing beats it. ... [read more]
PC World: Super-Easy Online Backups
What I like about Carbonite is that you set it up once, and after that it just works. And unlike a local external hard drive, which is at risk if something catastrophic happens -- a house fire, for example -- Carbonite keeps your data off site, where it's safe. ... [read more]
Connected Home: How About Online Backup?
Carbonite, known for its simple installation, now offers enhanced online Help, new account management pages, and an enhanced file-restore process. ... [read more]
RedHerring: Startup Gains $2.5M
Online backup provider Carbonite said on Thursday it has secured $2.5 million in the first round of funding from two angel investors and a venture capital firm to extend its reach in the retail market. ... [read more]
Post-Gazette: Service Backs Up Computer Files
Friend determined that more people would back up data if it were automatic, like traditional enterprise backup systems, and one-button easy. The first part was easy, but making it easy is tougher. ... [read more]
The Seattle Times: Online Backup is Safe, Cheap
If your place burns down or your office is burglarized, there go your backups. But there is another solution and it's really coming into its own now that broadband connections to the Internet are becoming commonplace. ... [read more]
TechCrunch: The Carbonite Solution
What consumers really need is a dead simple service that backs up your entire hard drive to the Internet regularly. Boston based Carbonite is the closest to perfection we've seen so far. ... [read more]
Small Business Computing: Backup a No-Brainer
Most backup programs, be they to a local drive or to an online service, require some degree of user interaction. They want you to choose a backup set, set a backup time and so on. You also need to work within the program's user interface. Not so with Carbonite. ... [read more]
IT World: A Simple Backup for Single Drives
The answer sounds simple. Copy all data (not the operating system or applications) over the Internet to a data center. Continually protect all changes without the user having to do a thing. Make restoration even at the granular file level easy. Charge a nominal price for this service. That sounds too good to be true, but Carbonite has done it. ... [read more]
Converge Digest: Carbonite Raises $15 Million
Carbonite, a start-up based in Boston, raised $15 million in Series B financing for its online backup services for consumers and small businesses. Carbonite said it recently backed up its one-billionth file since launching its service in May 2006.. ... [read more]