There are hundreds of online file storage alternatives available now, ranging from the very sketchy to the expensively professional. With such a crowded field, Irish startup PutPlace is playing a slightly different angle to win your business: they're making it personal. The service is designed to be a secure, "future-proof" place to put your important family and business documents. PutPlace is currently in beta, so you can test it for free. When it launches, they'll offer annual subscriptions, presumably with rates varying based on the amount of storage used. This really isn't big news for advanced users who are already on the offsite backup bandwagon, but there are still plenty of people who haven't gotten there yet. If backup were easier, fewer novice users would have to go through the traumatic experience of losing everything to a hard drive failure. PutPlace might be able to help them by putting on a friendly, trustworthy face.
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5-15-2008 @ 2:37AM
Joe said...
Thanks Jay,
We think PutPlace has a few tricks up its sleeve that differentiate us from "old school" backup. From the outset we have designed the system to backup all your devices and look at then as an integrated environment. We will also add the capability to backup your media storage online (starting with flickr) or where appropriate linking online storage into your backup grid (e.g YouTube).
Because we look at all your storage as an integrated whole we can be smart about eliminated duplicates (which eliminates cost for the uer) while continue to represent each file as a seperate entity.
Finally PutPlace does just offer backup it offers "transit" so we can provide high speed publication services from your PC onto media sites (again we kick off with Flickr and YouTube).
Joe
CEO PutPlace
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5-15-2008 @ 1:57PM
John said...
I’ll take a look – thanks. You might want to look at a new media release by Storage Guardian that is offering online backup and bare metal restores with a special promotion - see http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb872084.htm. Do they offer bare metal restores?
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5-15-2008 @ 1:57PM
Jay Hathaway said...
Hi John,
Don't know about the bare metal, but you can ask Joe, their CEO. See his informative comment earlier in this thread.
Thanks for reading DLS!
5-29-2008 @ 4:01PM
Jenny said...
On the subject of file backup, sharing and storage ...
Online backup is becoming common these days. It is estimated that 70-75% of all PC's will be connected to online backup services with in the next decade.
Thousands of online backup companies exist, from one guy operating in his apartment to fortune 500 companies.
Choosing the best online backup company will be very confusing and difficult. One website I find very helpful in making a decision to pick an online backup company is:
http://www.BackupReview.info
This site lists more than 400 online backup companies in its directory and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.
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