A twist on cloud backup: Protecting your data from you
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Matt Prigge.
Recently, a colleague pointed me toward cloud backup provider Backupify. At first, I yawned and almost didn’t read further. However, something caught my eye: Backupify isn’t your run-of-the-mill cloud backup service. Instead of protecting your on-premises data with a backup in the cloud as so many providers do, it backs up data hosted in other cloud services such as Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, and Salesforce.com, then stores those point-in-time backups in Amazon.com’s cloud. It’s still cloud backup, but with an important twist.
Although I haven’t tried Backupify’s services myself and can’t pass judgment on whether it’s any good, I can say that this take on cloud backups is unique. Backupify doesn’t make the usual claim that you should back up these services because they might lose your data. Instead, Backupify pitches its service based on the fact that you might lose your data (say, through accidental deletion) or a hacker might do it for you…
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