BOSTON - September 26, 2008 - Carbonite, Inc., the leading backup provider for online consumers and small businesses, continues to receive positive praise distinguished technology reviewers for its product line PCBackup ™. Recently, three additional reviews have named Carbonite as their backup service of choice.
Lifehacker, daily blog award winning Gawker Media, which offers tips, shortcuts, and downloads to help users work and live smarter and more efficiently, named Carbonite as "backup tool Best Windows." The distinction was part of Lifehacker "best of the Hive Five winners," where the site answers frequently asked by readers questions. in addition, site visitors Lifehacker twice voted Carbonite as the best option for computer backups .
"for $ 50 a year, Carbonite backup offers unlimited online and is an alternative set-it-and-forget-it offers an offsite backup to remote servers," according to Lifehacker. com. View more http://lifehacker.com/5052582/best-of-the-best-the-hive-five-winners.
PC Pro, PC first monthly magazine in the UK, named Carbonite as Labs winner for online backup. The review noted, "Carbonite remains our online backup service of choice." See more http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/224718/carbonite-online-backup.html.
NextAdvisor, an independent source for comparing the new most valuable Internet services, formerly known as ConsumerCompare.org, honored Carbonite Editor's Choice for Online Backup with a score of five out of five.
"Carbonite is an excellent service that should really please the home user who is looking for an online backup service that they can configure once and forget. It is the best pure backup service online, we have reviewed for PC users because it requires very little, if any, ongoing maintenance. We strongly recommend the online backup service Carbonite "according NextAdvisor. Read more on http://www.nextadvisor.com/online_backup_services/compare.php.
"Consumers looking to see what others say about products before buying, and we are pleased to see continued positive reviews of Carbonite Online Backup," said David Friend, CEO of Carbonite. "We continue to find ways to Carbonite even simpler, and I am pleased that these influential editors recognize the importance of simplicity, reliability and appealing design."
About Carbonite
Carbonite launched its Online Backup service in May 2006. First in the industry to offer space Carbonite unlimited backup for a low, flat price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. So far, the company has supported more than 4 billion files, has restored more than 300 million lost files for its customers and has a large data center where capacity is measured in petabytes. There are Carbonite users in more than 120 countries.
Founded in 2005, Carbonite believes that computer users should not have to think about backup. The company mission is to provide an affordable, reliable, secure and easy to use for the user of the consumer computer. Carbonite is available to consumers and small businesses through numerous channels, including its corporate website, major US retailers and international distributors. For more information, please visitwww.carbonite.com.
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