Ars reviews four online backup solutions

July 17, 2007 by Kiltak |

With today’s increased speed and availability of broadband connections, online backup services could now be considered as viable alternatives to their local counterparts. Do you think these services are now compelling enough to ditch your local backup solution?

The growing prevalence and rising speed of broadband, coupled with the aforementioned drop in storage costs, has allowed companies that specialize in online backup solutions to extend these services to a great range of clientele. Unlike physical backup solutions, online systems have the advantage of requiring no additional hardware and usually have a small software footprint as well, in terms of program size or memory requirements.