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Event: How to protect your business-critical data

SBOCTeam — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:43:15 GMT

Have you considered how much of your business is on your computer? Customer data, financial records, emails, marketing documents and so much more. How would you feel if you woke up tomorrow and everything was gone? Learn how you can protect your business critical data from David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Carbonite Online Backup.

Carbonite launched its Online Backup service in May 2006. Carbonite's industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. Since 2006, the company has backed up more than 25 billion files, has restored more than 2 billion lost files for its customers and has a large data center where capacity is measured in petabytes. There are Carbonite users in more than 120 countries.

David Friend, Chairman & CEO, Co-founder of Carbonite, has been a successful technology entrepreneur for over 25 years. He previously co-founded five companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software, Computer Pictures Corporation and ARP Instruments. He has been featured in USA Today, Tech Capital, The Boston Globe, Mass HiTech, Fortune, Forbes and Tom Peter's best-selling management book, The Pursuit of Wow!

David can respond to questions like:

Should I have online backup or local backup?
How do I prepare my files in the event of a natural disaster?
Will the files I store be secure and kept private?

Ask Dave your question today and then join us on April 7, 2:00-3:00PM EST for his response. You can even ask him a question during the event, although he may not get to all of them.

Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical data

CommunityTeam — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:58:00 GMT

Dave, thanks so much for joining us today and sharing your expertise. Community, if you would like to learn more about Carbonite please visit http://www.carbonite.com/ and visit Dave's blog at www.carbonite.com/blog.

Also, don't forge that Carbonite is offering a special discount to SBOC members: If you sign up for Carbonite, enter offer code "BOA" and you'll automatically get 10% off, expires May 7th. $54.95 a year is the regular price for one year of Carbonite, unlimited capacity. $129.95 for 3 years. that's less than $4 per month.

Thanks for the discount Carbonite!

What's new from Carbonite?

CarboniteCEO — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:55:24 GMT

We just released Carbonite for the Mac. It's been really well received by the Mac community. We also just released the Remote Access feature, which i mentioned above. And in the months to come, we'll be introducing a version of our product aimed specifically at small businesses. Lots more planned for later in the year, but I promised my marketing VP that I would not spill all the beans!
It's been fun answering questions, and thanks to everyone who posted.
Dave Friend, CEO
Carbonite, Inc.

Losing data can mean losing your business

CarboniteCEO — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:51:49 GMT

Results of Data Loss in Companies

A company that experiences a computer outage lasting for more than 10 days will never fully recover financially and 50% of companies suffering such a predicament will be out of business within 5 years.

Small firms are at an even greater risk when suffering major data loss. 70% of small companies that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.

Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical data

CommunityTeam — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:50:58 GMT

Dave can you tell us more about what new products/services Carbonite is offering?

Where did the idea for Carbonite come from?

CarboniteCEO — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:48:40 GMT

All the companies I've start have been based to some degree on person need. In the case of Carbonite, my partner's wife had her laptop stolen out of her car and she lost a couple of years of baby pictures. Then, the same week, one of my daughters had a hard drive crash and she lost the term paper she'd been working on for six weeks. We went looking for a good backup service that was inexpensive and simple. We couldn't find one. i like services that are simple and easy to understand. We just want to solve this one problem -- protecting your data -- better than anyone else.

Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical data

CommunityTeam — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:45:31 GMT

Dave - thanks again for participating on SBOC! Your bio shows that you have been a successful "serial entrepreneur" so I was wondering, how did you decide to get involved in this industry and why did you decide to start the company?

More gruesome backup news...

CarboniteCEO — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:42:04 GMT

Some people wrongly assume that backing up files to CD offers a permanent solution. However, the nature of chemicals used to manufacture recordable CDs gives them a much shorter lifespan than store-bought albums. In fact, even recordable CDs that are stored in dark, temperature-controlled rooms usually won't last longer than a few years!

Tape backups are a common business solution for offsite data backup. However, 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape backup failures.

And physical backups have other problems. How many times have you read about tapes disappearing from the delivery trucks. Or one recent incident where a whole truck load of backup tapes disappeared while the driver was in getting a coffee and doughnut.

Top causes of data loss

CarboniteCEO — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:39:09 GMT

Causes of Data Loss

Data can be lost through hard drive crashes, theft, power surges, natural disasters, or accidentally deleting your own files.

Natural disasters can happen across the world without warning. Most people keep their external hard drives and DVDs in the same office or building as the computer they're backing up. So, should a disaster--hurricane, earthquake, fire--occur, both the computer and the data backup could be destroyed.

Hard drive failure is the leading cause of data loss, accounting for 38% of data loss incidents. Although hard drive manufacturers claim less than a 1% failure rate, recent research by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University found that a 2%-4% failure rate is more common and under some conditions the failure rate may reach as high as 13%.

32% of data loss events are caused by human error. This can be from accidentally deleting a file, incorrectly partitioning a hard drive, or poor airflow around a laptop or desktop resulting in overheating, among other reasons.

13% of data loss incidents are caused by software corruption, which might include damages caused by system software or other programs (e.g., a virus attack).

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What's new from Carbonite?

Losing data can mean losing your business

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Where did the idea for Carbonite come from?

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More gruesome backup news...

Top causes of data loss