Carbonite in the News
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]