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9 November 2010, Carbonite.com Press Release
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BOSTON, Nov. 9, 2010 — Carbonite®, a
leading provider of online backup, today
announces the beta release of Carbonite
Access for the Android platform.
Carbonite Access, available for free in
the Android Market, provides Carbonite
subscribers with the ability to quickly
and easily access all of their valuable
files through their mobile device. The
application's seamless integration with
the Android OS also enables Carbonite
users to easily share their backed up
files via email, Facebook, Picasa and
many other Android-supported
applications.
Carbonite Access, available for
Android devices running Android v1.6 and
above, is the latest remote access
feature introduced by Carbonite.
Carbonite provides customers with remote
file access via any computer through
Carbonite.com or mobile devices such as
iPhone®, iPod Touch®, BlackBerry®
smartphones and now Android devices.
"Carbonite creates a 'personal cloud'
by automatically backing up all your
files to Carbonite's servers," said
David Friend, founder and CEO of
Carbonite. "We've backed up billions of
photos, songs and documents. Now we're
building the industry's most powerful
mobile apps for accessing and sharing
them. Our new Android app, with features
like photo thumbnails and instantaneous
playback of your backed up music, helps
you find what you're looking for
quickly. Our promise to customers is:
'Back it up. Get it back.' Getting it
back is what Carbonite Access for
Android is all about."
Carbonite Access for Android provides
consumers with a variety of options for
accessing files:
- Browse: Once the application is
downloaded, consumers will log into
their Carbonite account on the
mobile device. They will then be
able to browse all folders and files
backed up through Carbonite,
arranged in the same file locations
as they are on the computer.
- Share: Backed up files can be
shared through the phone via e-mail,
Picasa, Facebook and other
social-networking applications.
- View: Backed up photos can be
previewed using thumbnails or
quickly viewed full screen using the
integrated photo viewer from
Carbonite.
- Listen: Consumers also can
utilize Carbonite Access for Android
to listen to music backed up from
their computer directly on their
phone in a matter of seconds.
Carbonite customers can download the
app from the Android Market or by
visiting
http://www.carbonite.com/en/online-computer-backup/remote-file-access.
Carbonite launched its online backup
service in 2006 and has raised more than
$67 million in several rounds of venture
financing. The company has received
numerous accolades in 2010 including a
No. 9 overall and No. 1 in IT Services
Inc. 500 ranking, the Tech Awards Circle
Gold Award for consumer/small office,
home office (SOHO) service category, and
Privately held company of the year
honors from the Massachusetts Technology
Leadership Council. Additionally,
Carbonite was selected as a finalist in
the Red Herring 100 North America list,
and CEO David Friend was named as the
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
winner for New England in the Consumer
and Small Business Emerging Technology
category.
About Carbonite
Carbonite revolutionized the market
for consumer and small-business backup
services with its industry-first
offering of unlimited online backup for
a low, flat price. Since 2006, the
company has backed up more than 80
billion files and has restored more than
7.2 billion lost files for its
million-plus customers. Carbonite, which
was ranked No. 9 overall and No. 1 in IT
Services in the Inc. magazine
2010 Inc. 500 listing, backs up more
than 200 million files every day to
high-redundancy storage servers in its
Boston and Somerville, Mass., data
centers.
The Carbonite mission is to provide a
simple, affordable, and secure backup
and "anytime, anywhere access" solutions
for the mainstream computer user.
Carbonite supports both the Windows and
Mac platforms. |
