Backup

McAfee Launches Unlimited Capacity Online Backup Service

October 1, 2009 -- The world's largest dedicated security company, McAfee, Inc., today announced the availability of McAfee Online Backup, a new secure online service for consumers that stores and encrypts digital assets such as photos, videos, music, e-mails and other files.

Industry research shows a strong market need for a secure, automated, and simple to use online backup solution:

Every week 140,000 hard drives will crash in the United States (according to Google Labs)
Every week 12,000 laptops are lost or stolen in U.S. airports (according to Dell & Ponemon Institute LLC)
70% of data losses are due to events beyond user control (according to a study by Pepperdine University)
U.S. consumers own, on average, nearly 1,800 digital files each, yet more than half (52%) don't backup their data because they don't know how, believe it takes too much time or don't have the tools needed to backup (according to the Consumer Electronics Association)

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Back Up Files with the Touch of a Button

by jessica on Fri, 2009-05-08 10:59

The 2009 school year is coming to an end, and what better gift to give your graduating senior than something that will help him (or her) when they go off to college in the fall? SanDisk has a new Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive that is the world's first USB flash drive with push-button backup. It couldn't get much easier than that!

The SanDisk Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive is available with capacities ranging from 8GB to 64GB, and is great for backing up photos, music, videos, and of course, schoolwork. Backing up files has never been easier…simply touch a button. No wires and no software installation needed.

The drives are currently available and range in price between $49.99 and $199.99.

For more information visit www.sandiskusb.com.

WD Provides Continuous Automatic Backup with My Book World Edition

by jeff on Wed, 2009-02-18 12:17

What one item would you grab from your house if it were on fire? My answer is my Western Digital My Book World Edition.

Have you ever lost any data that was on your computer? Do you remember to backup your files regularly? Western Digital knows that you have lost your data before, and that you do not regularly back up that data. WD also knows that you have more than one computer in your family. Their latest solution for the entire family is the My Book World Edition in 1 TB (MSRP $229) and 2 TB (MSRP $449) capacities. The best part is the plug-and-play installation to ensure ease of use. This solution is both MAC and PC compatible. The device also has an integrated media server and iTunes Music server software to easily stream music. You can also share photos and videos easily with this amazing home storage device for your home network.

SanDisk Launches World's First Button Backup USB Flash Drive

January 6, 2009 – SanDisk Corporation today introduced an innovative new family of SanDisk USB flash drives, including the world’s first backup USB flash drive with simple backup software activation at the touch of a button. The SanDisk Ultra Backup USB portable flash drive is the first offering of the company’s new SanDisk Ultra USB product line. With capacities up to 64 gigabytes (GB), the SanDisk Ultra Backup USB flash drive is designed to protect computer users’ photos, music, videos, personal and business documents, and other types of digital files, with the simple touch of a button. No software installation is needed. The drive protects onboard digital content with a dual layer of security, including password-protected access control and ultra-secure AES hardware-based encryption.

The new SanDisk USB product family includes three different product lines:

1) The popular SanDisk Cruzer USB flash drive which provides simple, reliable and portable storage, plus access to a variety of U3 applications.

2) The SanDisk Ultra Backup USB flash drive offers the added protection and peace of mind consumers expect from the minds behind flash memory.

3) The SanDisk Extreme Contour provides increased security protection and higher performance levels, enclosed in a sleek industrial design. Read more

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New HP MediaSmart Home Media Server and Backup System

by Joe Stewart on Mon, 2008-12-29 13:11

The main strength of the HP MediaSmart Server is central storage and media streaming for music and photos over your home network. Special iTunes support allows iTunes playback on connected computers that use iTunes.

You can serve photos directly from the MediaSmart server or upload photos to Facebook, Picasa or Snapfish. I do not see Flickr support in the announcement though.

In addition to media center type serving of music, videos, and photos the server also performs a network backup for Windows and Mac computers on a home network. To add additional redundancy you can add Amazon S3 for offsite storage. The HP Media Collector can schedule centralizing files from the other computers on the home network.

The HP MediaSmart Server ex485 will have 750 GB of hard drive space at $599 and the ex487 will double the hard drive storage to 1.5 TB and a price of $749. Storage can be expanded to 9 TB later. They both contain a 64-bit 2.0 GHz Intel Celeron processor and 2 GB of RAM. Read more

HP Launches New Home Server for PCs and Macs

December 29, 2008 -- HP today launched a home server designed for use with both Windows and Mac computers.

Based on the Microsoft Windows Home Server platform, the HP MediaSmart Server ex485/ex487 is a central repository for automatically backing up and accessing digital music, videos, photos and documents from multiple computers on a home network.

The MediaSmart Server automatically organizes files across all PCs, streams media across a home network and the Internet, and publishes photos to popular social networking and photo sharing sites. Read more