Re: carbonite

I also have heard no pros to this service. I think it is more advertised to 
consumers as opposed to businesses though.

I guess you have to ask yourself, do you want to rely on Carbonite's security 
as an extension to your own backups and security? Do you want your more 
sensitive information traveling up out to Carbonite and housed by them? Do you 
want your users to be able to retrieve their backed up data from anywhere, 
possibly even other PCs? And what happens if Carbonite doesn't make it and goes 
out of business. Obviously your tape backups can only wear out... Does this 
scale to your business size? Do you have a policy about housing sensitive data 
outside your corporate-owned assets? Do they allow good central administration 
so that someone like you can access their data if they are terminated, go home, 
and try to get their backups back?

It's a good question, and I'm looking forward to any other answers. I just 
think a big one for many businesses will be the growing dark clouds of 
compliance and regulations and how they would then need Carbonite to meet those 
requirements as well, for housing important data.

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I have some corporate users that are asking for consent to use carbonite 
(carbonite.com) for maintaining backups of files etc. XM has been advertising 
this as a consumer tool for business continuity/disaster recovery etc. I have 
not seen or heard any pro's or cons about their security set up or if it's 
actually hardened to where it's a realistic alternative to traditional storage.

Are there any security industry endorsements?