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16 March 2011, Carbonite.com Press Release
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BOSTON, March 10, 2011 — Carbonite ®,
a leading provider of
online backup and "anytime, anywhere
access," today announced the results of
a study indicating that many small
businesses put their data at risk by
using physical devices to back up
computers. Forty-two percent of SMBs
surveyed confirmed they have experienced
data loss. Of those, 32 percent
indicated they never retrieved the lost
files.
The study finds that physical devices
are the most common method small
businesses employ for backup, with 86
percent of SMBs indicating that they
rely on a physical device for some or
all of their backup requirements. These
devices include external hard drive (42
percent), USB/Flash memory stick (38
percent) and CDs/DVDs (25 percent).
"Relying on physical devices as the
sole backup method leaves businesses
vulnerable to data loss and less
efficient, since the process for backing
up to a physical device is almost always
manual," said Carbonite Chairman and CEO
David Friend, who has launched six
companies including Carbonite and was
named the 2010 Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year for New England
in the Consumer and Small Business
Emerging Technology category.
Small-business owners backing up data
are spending a significant amount of
time on the administrative task of
backup. Among those surveyed, 65 percent
reported that the owner of the small
business was responsible for backup.
"Downtime is crippling to businesses;
it's critical for business owners to
focus their time working on the business
instead of in the business," said
Friend. "Employing automated processes
like Carbonite online backup gives the
business owner more time to grow their
business."
In December, 2010, Carbonite surveyed
more than 125 small businesses with 20
or fewer employees to study their
disaster recovery and data backup
methods.
Carbonite launched its online backup
service in 2006 and in 2010, was ranked
the ninth-fastest-growing private
company in the U.S. in the Inc.
500 list, and it ranked No. 1 in IT
Services. Last year the company also
earned the Tech Awards Circle Gold Award
for the consumer/small office, home
office (SOHO) service category and
Privately Held Company of the Year
honors from the Massachusetts Technology
Leadership Council.
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
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