| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.04.2024 | Five ways AI can boost your data backups | In the event of a data emergency -- say, a cyber attack or a natural disaster shutting down a data center -- no organization wants to worry about whether they have secure, up-to-date backups, and whether they can be easily recovered.
But wi... |
| 14.06.2023 | The top drivers of wasted IT spend in a hybrid-first environment [Q&A] | From rising collaboration expenses to a need for more devices per employee, hybrid work models have driven a need for new investments in workplace technology.
However, a significant portion of IT spend is wasted in a hybrid-first environmen... |
| 11.04.2022 | Best cloud backup services and solutions 2022 | Image: Andy Wolber
All sorts of data disasters happen, even when you rely on cloud services. Downloaded ransomware locks local files that sync to the cloud. An errant update erases essential data. Poor password management leads to lost cont... |
| 31.03.2022 | Best Backup Software 2022 | Credit: Adobe
As the number of malware and ransomware attacks rise, it is as important to make sure that your organization and personal data is not only being protected, but also being prepared in the event data is breached or lost. While p... |
| 18.02.2022 | Google Drive backup solutions for just about any use case | Image: juststock, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Millions of users depend on Google Drive, for both personal and professional work. And Google’s cloud-based file storage solution rarely fails. Even should Google Drive fail you, the company is the... |
| 23.03.2018 | Dropbox vs Box: how do their IPOs compare? | Dropbox was valued much higher than Box, and raised more money, but Box ended its first day up more
Earlier today, one of the most anticipated IPOs finally happened as Dropbox made its debut on the public market.
The company is doing well s... |
| 06.10.2015 | Code42 Snares Huge $85M Series B Investment | Code42, the Minneapolis-based developers of the Crashplan enterprise backup tool, announced a massive $85 million round today. Code42 doesn’t do them small. It has had only one previous round for $52.5 million at the beginning of 2012.
The ... |
| 22.05.2015 | How to back up all your Gmail emails | Gmail might be the most popular email service in the world, but even the biggest players fall sometimes, and once that happens, the little guys will be there to cheer.
Server outages and crashes have happened before, and even though Gmail i... |
| 30.03.2015 | Why moving to the cloud doesn't remove the need for backups [Q&A] | More and more businesses are moving their data to the cloud and adopting SaaS delivery models for software. In making this switch many assume that they're shifting the responsibility for looking after their data to someone else.
But compani... |
| 12.12.2014 | Datto Acquires Backupify | Datto, a global provider of hybrid cloud-based backup, disaster recovery (BDR) and business continuity solutions backed by General Catalyst Partners, acquired Backupify, a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recover... |
| 11.12.2014 | Backupify Bought by Datto Amid Consolidation in Cloud Companies | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The cloud is a good place to build data-storage startups—but it’s also a sector that’s seeing a lot of companies get snapped up or fall by the wayside.
Backupify, a six-year-o... |
| 11.12.2014 | Datto Snags Cloud Service Backupify | Datto, a backup and disaster recovery service from Norwalk, Connecticut, purchased cloud to cloud backup service Backupify today. It was a move designed to give Datto a more complete product portfolio.
Terms were not available, but Backupif... |
| 14.11.2014 | SysCloud Raises $2.5M To Help Businesses Keep Their Google Apps Accounts Safe | SysCloud, a service that offers a comprehensive suite of services aimed to keep companies’ Google Apps accounts safe and backed up, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million Series A round led by new investor Inventus Capital Partne... |
| 05.11.2014 | Backupify adds HIPAA compliance to enterprise security features | Cloud backups are all the rage at the moment, but they do raise security concerns, particularly for businesses that deal with sensitive information.
Cloud to cloud backup specialist Backupify has added some new features to its service to ma... |
| 28.05.2014 | Open APIs Fuel Creation Of New Cloud Services Ecosystem | There is obviously a growing market related to moving traditional on-premises enterprise software to the cloud, but what you might not know is that beyond that group of products, there is a whole other category of services being developed t... |
| 31.03.2014 | Backupify expands cloud support | Moving data to the cloud and running software as a service can make businesses complacent about backup as they feel their data is already safe with their provider.
However, a recent report by Forrester warns that organizations relying on cl... |
| 16.02.2014 | Why the next president should be a CIO | Politics suck, and I blame that on the politicians. What our Founding Fathers intended to be a temporary stint – serving in national politics – has become a lifelong career where people who went to law school spend all their time distributi... |
| 16.02.2014 | Why the next president should be a CIO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Politics suck, and I blame that on the politician... |
| 15.01.2014 | Boston Roundup: ClearSky Data, Backupify, Flashnotes, OnCorps, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated 10:20 am Eastern
Here are a few recent financing deals, including some on the stealthy and secretive side, from around the region:
—Highland Capital Partners and Gener... |
| 22.11.2013 | IDrive Launches Facebook Backup So You Never Lose The Photos And Videos You Were Tagged In | IDrive, like most online backup services, has long focused on keeping the data on your local hard drive safe by backing it up to the cloud. Now, however, the company is launching a new product that expands its services beyond your local dri... |
| 04.11.2013 | I Was Never Truly Intellectually Stimulated Until I Found Startups | www.youtube.com
Intelligence means different things depending on the context. HubSpot's Dharmesh Shah and I have a long-standing debate about the value of raw intelligence in starting a company. My argument to him has always been that deter... |
| 14.09.2013 | How the Internet is killing innovation | Rob May is CEO and cofounder of Backupify.
I believed the same lies that you still believe, for a long time. I was in college during the early days of the World Wide Web, and like others, I rejoiced in the incredible access to knowledge it ... |
| 12.06.2013 | Backupify's Migrator lets you easily move data between Google accounts | Migrating data between two Google accounts is not the easiest of tasks -- there's no simple switch that one can flip. Folks have to use various tools provided by the search giant to move a Google+ profile with circles, backup important emai... |
| 18.05.2013 | Schooled by Google: How Google Apps is penetrating education (infographic) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
More than 20 million students currently use Googl... |
| 18.05.2013 | Schooled by Google: How Google Apps is penetrating education (infographic) | More than 20 million students currently use Google Apps, and another 10 million are soon to join, thanks to a deal with Malaysia.
As students and schools are increasingly storing more of their data and documents in clouds of Google’s server... |
| 17.05.2013 | Backupify Is Phasing Out Free Consumer Products; Drops Support For Facebook Personal Profiles, Blogger, Picassa And Flickr | Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we’d heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to... |
| 16.05.2013 | TweetBackup shuts up shop, recommends Norton Ditto as replacement | If you were thinking of signing up for a TweetBackup account to create an archive of your Twitter account, it is now too late. Having been bought by Backupify around two and a half years ago, the project has been sidelined, and no new regis... |
| 15.05.2013 | Twitter Archiving Service TweetBackup Hits The Deadpool As Owner Backupify Focuses More On Enterprise | Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify — the Cambridge, MA cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services — is shutting down TweetBackup, a company originally founded in Sweden that Backupify a... |
| 21.03.2013 | Spanning Gets $6M In Funding For Its Backup Tech, And It’s Not From Google | Spanning Cloud Apps has raised $6 million, in part from The Foundry Group but primarily from an undisclosed strategic investor. One thing is for sure, Google is not the one investing. That is if Spanning CEO and Founder Charlie Wood was spe... |
| 06.03.2013 | Backupify Rolls Out Gmail Tool, Wants to Build Data Protection Layer for the Web | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Three pearls of wisdom from Backupify CEO Rob May, right off the bat:
1. “Successful companies often look like bad ideas at the beginning.”
2. “The company that solves the ‘bi... |
| 10.02.2013 | Spanning takes the crown for Google Apps backup services [review] | The competition in the Google Apps backup market is steadily ramping up, with more than a few contenders jumping in lately to have a piece of this newfound need. Just two months ago, I wrote about my (mostly) positive thoughts regarding App... |
| 19.12.2012 | Backupify is a reliable cost-effective cloud backup solution for Google Apps [review] | While the cloud generally provides for better reliability than on-premise systems, having a solid backup plan is still a universal necessity. Cloud solutions like Google Apps and Office 365 have nearly eliminated the notion of data loss due... |
| 07.12.2012 | Tech Trailblazers Awards judges invest their virtual millions | Experts armed with pile of Tech Trailblazing “dollars” invest in their pick of the finalists. You can vote for your favorites now too – Deadline just a week away
London, 7th December 2012 – As voting for the first-annual, highly successful ... |
| 26.11.2012 | On-Premise Cloud Storage/Sharing Startup, OwnCloud, Closes $2.5M Second Seed Round, Led By General Catalyst Partners | OwnCloud Inc — the business built on the back of widely used (650,000+ users worldwide) open source file sync and share software ownCloud — has closed $2.5 million in second seed round funding. The round was led by current investor General ... |
| 22.09.2012 | Eight ways to save your tweets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter is an indispensible communications tool. ... |
| 01.09.2012 | Google+ Is Going After Yammer To Flank Facebook | Editor’s note: Rob May is the CEO and co-founder of Backupify, the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
Google recently announced that it will begin offering corporate control feat... |
| 11.07.2012 | Symantec Gives Cloud Backup A Boost, Goes In On Backupify’s $9 Million Series C | Backupify, the startup providing backup, search and restore solutions for online services like Google Apps, Salesforce, Facebook and Twitter, is announcing today that it’s secured $9 million in Series C funding from existing investors Avalo... |
| 11.07.2012 | Backupify Secures $9M Series C |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Leading provider of online backup services for cloud application data announced that it has secured $9 million in Series C funding from Symantec Corp. as well as existing investors.
>> Click here for more funding dat... |
| 11.07.2012 | Backupify Brings In $9M More from Symantec & VCs, Fends Off Acquirers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
An old-school tech company in a new-school world. That’s what I’d call Backupify. The Cambridge, MA-based startup sits squarely at the intersection of cloud computing, data ma... |
| 11.07.2012 | Backupify Secures $9M in Series C Funding | Backupify, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of online backup services for cloud application data, has secured $9 million in Series C funding.
Backers include Symantec Corp. as well as existing investors Avalon Ventures, General Cat... |
| 20.06.2012 | Founders’ Stories: Backupify, BzzAgent, and Pixability CEOs Bare It All | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
OK, not literally. But some good stories were told.
Last Thursday’s XSITE conference at Babson College, our fourth annual full-day innovation conference (see photos here), had... |
| 10.05.2012 | Who Is Boston’s Hottest Startup? [Poll] | As we prepare to kick off our monthly speaker series Tech Cocktail Sessions in Boston next week (register here), we have been getting a lot of questions about the Boston area startup scene. With some of the top educational establishments in... |
| 08.04.2012 | How much is a tweet worth? About 1/10,000 as much as a Yelp review | Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies.
For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents ... |
| 06.04.2012 | [Infographic] How Much is That Tweet Really Worth? | The good folks at Backupify.com have put together this interesting infographic this week that attempts to calculate what an individual Tweet, Facebook user and other social media elements are actually worth in dollars and cents. And perhaps... |
| 07.03.2012 | Don’t Read Tech Blogs: 10 Ideas from Backupify’s Rob May | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You might know him as the founder and CEO of Backupify, one of the fast-growing technology startups around Boston. I know him as a guy who speaks his mind about many a tech to... |
| 13.02.2012 | Google Apps Backup Service Spanning Gets Sexy: Launches All-New Look & Admin Dashboard | Austin-based cloud apps startup Spanning, which provides a backup service for Google Apps, just launched a new version of its service (Spanning 3.0) which includes a feature I.T. admins are sure to love: a health monitor for Google Apps. Th... |
| 30.12.2011 | How Small-Business Owners Can Cast a Social Safety Net | December 30, 2011 4 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Creating a safety net for your social-media activities has never been more important.
When Twitter went down last year for several hours, tweeters b... |
| 19.10.2011 | Backupify Snapshot Exits Beta, Adds More Features For Exporting Google Apps Accounts | Backupify, the startup that provides online data backup, archiving and export, is today releasing a new version of its Backupify Snapshot tool with additional features for Google Apps admins. The tool, for those unfamiliar, allows Google Ap... |
| 08.09.2011 | Backupify Secures $5M in Series B Funding | Backupify, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of data protection and management services for cloud-based applications, has secured $5m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Avalon Ventures, with participation from General Catalys... |
| 08.09.2011 | Backupify nabs new $5M round to back up social media data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cloud-based social media data backup service Back... |
| 08.09.2011 | Backupify nabs new $5M round to back up social media data | Cloud-based social media data backup service Backupify has closed a $5 million funding round, the company announced Thursday.
Backupify’s service works by creating a backup archive of all the information from a person’s various social media... |
| 08.09.2011 | Backupify Inks $5M Series B |
Funding led by Avalon Ventures, with additional participation from General Catalyst and Lowercase Capital.
>> Click here for more funding data on Backupify
>> To export Backupify funding data to PDF and Excel, click here
... |
| 08.09.2011 | Backupify raises $5 million to save your cloud data | Google Apps and social media users alike can benefit from the backup solution
Backupify, provider of data protection and management services for cloud-based applications, announced Thursday that it has secured $5 million in Series B funding... |
| 08.09.2011 | Backupify Brings in $5M Series B | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cambridge, MA-based Backupify, a provider of technology for backing up data stored in e-mail and social media applications, is announcing it has nabbed a $5 million Series B f... |
| 06.09.2011 | Spanning Adds Gmail Backup To Its Google Apps Backup Service | Austin, Texas-based startup Spanning launched a new version of its Google Apps backup service today, which now includes business-grade backup for Gmail. Previously, the company provided backup for other Google Apps products, including Googl... |
| 22.05.2011 | The Cloud | I wrote a blog post yesterday about my move to the cloud. It has gotten 234 comments so far and another 49 on Hacker News. That's a lot of discussion about something that is fairly commonplace these days. It's pretty clear from reading the ... |
| 05.04.2011 | Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $2 Million For Cloud Backup Services | The Austin-based startup Spanning Cloud Apps, a cloud-based app developer, today announced that it has closed a $2 million series A round, led by the Foundry Group, a VC firm based in Boulder. Seth Levine, Foundry Group’s managing director,... |
| 10.02.2011 | Backupify Now Archives Your LinkedIn Data | As the recent story of Flickr’s accidental deletion of someone’s account, along with 3400 of their photos, reminds us: just because we’ve moved from the desktop to the cloud doesn’t mean we can forgo backing up our data.
That’s the service ... |
| 18.01.2011 | Backupify Backupified 136 Million Tweets, 713 Million Emails In 2010 | Backupify, a cloud computing service that backs up data on other cloud computing services, has just released a “year in review” announcement that includes staggering data on the amount of content saved through the platform.
Founded in 2008 ... |
| 16.12.2010 | Delicious Shutting Down: How To Save Your Bookmarks | Seeing the rumors today that Delicious may be shut down by Yahoo makes me want to vomit. Ok, that's sugar-coating it a little, but you get the idea. And it's now been confirmed by Liz Gannes that the social bookmarking site that lead the “W... |
| 05.12.2010 | Why Is The WikiLeaks Twitter Account Only Following TweetBackup? | Even though Amazon and Paypal have severed their relationships with the controversial to say the least WikiLeaks, the @WikiLeaks Twitter account is still holding strong. Some are wondering why Twitter has as of yet to cut ties with the serv... |
| 17.11.2010 | Archive Facebook, Twitter and More with Cloud Preservation | Cloud Preservation, a service from Nextpoint, is a simple service for archiving data from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other web-based services. The company pitches its service as a compliance tool, but it makes sense as a storage tool f... |
| 09.11.2010 | Backupify Your Data From Facebook Pages | Backupify, a cloud computing service that backs up data on other cloud computing services, has launched a dedicated product to back up data on Facebook Pages.
Founded in 2008 by Rob May, Backupify backs up all your data on services like Twi... |
| 07.09.2010 | Backupify Secures $4.5M in Series A Funding | Backupify, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of online backup, archiving and export services for cloud-based social media and SaaS data, has secured $4.5m in Series A funding.
The round was co-led by by Avalon Ventures and General Catalyst, wi... |
| 07.09.2010 | Backupify raises $4.5M to save your social media shenanigans | Cloud storage provider Backupify, which specializes in backing up data from social media services like Twitter and Facebook announced Tuesday that it raised $4.5 million in its first round of fundraising led by Avalon Ventures and General C... |
| 07.09.2010 | Backupify Raises $4.5 Million To Back Up Data In The Cloud | Backupify, a cloud computing service that backs up data on other cloud computing services, has raised $4.5 Million in Series A funding co-led by Avalon Ventures and General Catalyst, with Lowercase Capital and First Round Capital participat... |
| 07.09.2010 | What you need to know - Tuesday 9/7/10 | AOL and Ellen team up, $2.1B in venture raised in Q2, Backupify raises $4.5 million
It appears DataViz has a new home. The maker of a Documents To Go application for the Blackberry, was bought by Research In Motion (RIM) for $50 million, ac... |
| 07.09.2010 | Backupify raises $4.5M to back up data | Avalon Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercase, First Round invest in saving our social-media data
Data is invaluable, even if it's a random Tweet about your lunch that day.
And, Backupify - now flush with new cash - is hoping to ensure that ... |
| 12.07.2010 | Backupify Rolls Out Customized Google Apps Tool To Back Up Data From The Cloud | Backupify, a startup that provides online backup, archiving and export services for cloud-based social media and SaaS data, is rolling out its application for Google Apps. This will allow any Google Apps users to backup all data stored in t... |
| 12.07.2010 | Backupify Moves to Boston, Shifts Focus to Help Businesses Manage Google Apps Data | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is the story of a little tech startup that recently has relocated to Boston. The company started in late 2008 by focusing on a consumer problem: helping people back up th... |
| 30.03.2010 | Gmail Becomes an App Platform: Google Adds OAuth to IMAP | You may or may not be excited by the acronyms OAuth and IMAP/SMTP, but the combination of them all together is very exciting news. Google Code Labs announced this afternoon that it has just enabled 3rd party developers to securely access th... |
| 30.03.2010 | Automattic Opens Up VaultPress, A Safe Place To Back Up Your Blog | Over the past few months, Automattic’s popular blog platform WordPress.com has taken an in-depth look at their blogging ecosystem, and realized that one of the major pain points for the 12.1 million users who self-host their WordPress blogs... |
| 04.03.2010 | Backupify’s CEO On Wooing Investors: “It’s Like Dating” | Here at ReadWriteStart, we’ve been following the Open Angel Forum closely as Jason Calacanis’ project moves from city to city bringing angel investors and worthy startups together in one room. The first event in Los Angeles was of particula... |
| 16.02.2010 | First Round, Betaworks, And Angels Back Up Backupify With $900K | You backup the data on your computer. Why not backup your data on the Web? That’s the basic premise of Backupify, a startup based in Louisville, Kentucky that backs up all your data on services like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, WordPre... |
| 16.02.2010 | Backupify Closes $900,000 Seed Round | Backupify, a Louisville, Ky.-based online data backup and storage provider for businesses, has closed a $900,000 seed round of funding.
The company, which launched in June 2009 with a sole focus on the consumer market, will use the funds to... |
| 04.01.2010 | Jason Calacanis' Top Tech Products (And A Political Rant) | Jason Calacanis lists his own favorite tech products after reading ours. His list, which was sent out to his mailing list earlier today, is below. Along with one heck of a political rant about the middle east and energy policy, which we hav... |
| 10.11.2009 | Sponsor Post: 10 Killer Tools for Small-Business Success | Editor’s note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write ‘Sponsor Posts’ and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope ... |
