Carbonite Inc., the company behind a consumer cloud backup solution, has just raised $20 million in fourth round venture capital. This is the second big consumer-oriented managed service investment we’ve spotted this week — reinforcing the fact that commodity players could potentially gain some ground in the SMB space. Here’s why.
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Managed Storage: Carbonite Raises $20 Million
Posted January 8th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
Recap: Top Managed Services Offered In 2008
Posted January 19th, 2009 by Joe Panettieri
We’re still putting the finishing touches on our MSPmentor 100 report (which we’ll unveil in February), but in the meantime we do have some interesting raw data to share with you. For instance: What were the top managed services offered in 2008? Here’s are quick data points:
Hurricane Gustav and Terabytes of Data
Posted September 2nd, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
It would be interesting to see how many terabytes (petabytes? exabytes or more?) of data were backed up and moved out of the Gulf Coast area ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Also, I wonder how much of that data was moved into commercial cloud services. Anybody have any estimates or seen any editorial coverage worth noting?
IBackup Recruits 2,000 Online Storage Resellers
Posted August 21st, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
At what point does the online backup market become saturated? I ask myself that question at least once a week. The reason: I get flooded with emails, voicemails and press releases about managed service providers and resellers signing up for online backup services.
Amazon S3 Storage Service Goes Dark Again
Posted July 20th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
Amazon.com’s Simple Storage Service (S3) suffered its second big service outage this year on Sunday, July 20, notes GigaOm. Om Malik reports that some S3 services were down for eight hours.
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