We often talk about how IDrive out-performs other services by 25-30% in the area of backup/restore speed and we thought to let you in on a few of the reasons why: 1. The IDrive platform is built and maintained by us. Why is this important? Well, there are more online backup “companies” out there than […]
IDrive is possibly the fastest online backup service. It is not an empty statement. We have done many internal tests, and there have been some third party studies (although only a few) that clearly shows IDrive’s advantages in performance. How do we do it? For starters, we do not impose artificial bandwidth limits. Whatever your […]
One of our leading competitors, Mozy, a division of EMC posted on their website a set of new plans, and closure of their unlimited plans. Here is their reason, picked from their website. We’ve seen other backup service providers respond to this industry storage trend in different ways. Some, like AOL’s Xdrive, HP Upline, and […]
IDrive Lite, the multi-device contacts backup and restore application for the mobile platforms, now supports Android 2.0 and higher devices, in addition to iPhones and Blackberries. While there are possibly other contact backup applications, the key differentiating factor is its ability to do cross platform backups and restores. You can backup contacts from your Blackberry […]
A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego, calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008. HMI Report/UC San Diego This averages to 34 GB /Day per person. This also means there is huge amount of this ‘Information’ served fast and easy, via TV and Computers for most part. […]
IDrive Lite, the Contacts Backup Application for the iPhone and Blackberry devices has just been enhanced to keep versions of backups. This brings the IDrive Lite App more along the lines of traditional backups where one can restore , not just from the most recent copy of backup, but from earlier copies of backup. The […]
When it comes to Backup, it’s always best to have dual approach… backup all your important files locally, and then backup your most critical files online where you’ll have access to them from anywhere. Then, as time permits, you can backup the rest of your important files online, which does take some time… based on […]
We have the online backup applications for the Windows and Mac platforms. It was only fitting that we offer a Contacts Online Backup for the iPhones. It is a very easy to use application with one button executions for backups and restores. It does not even require a signup. “Well, I always sync my iPhone […]
You might wonder what is the link between Financial Turmoils facing Wall Street today and Online Backup? There is, and it has to do with the general feel to ‘protect’. Protect the wealth one has, protect the tangible valuables one has and , protect the digital assets. We were expecting signups and traffic to decrease […]
