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Our Journey to the Enterprise

by Rob May on May 17, 2013 in About Backupify
Backupify enterprise focus

When Backupify began in 2009, our mission was to back up social data for consumers in the cloud.  Over the past 4 years, social sites such as Twitter and Facebook have become extremely popular and as consumers we’re now accustomed to web-based services.  We live our lives in the cloud and we don’t think much [...]

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Introducing The Best Way To Restore Google Drive Files – The GDrive Deleted Items List

by Rob May on Apr 30, 2013 in Backupify Features and Products
Deleted Items

One of the constant internal debates we have at Backupify is about how to make restoring data to Google Apps as fast and easy as possible. There are two primary ways to find a deleted item to restore: search, and browse. If you remember the name of the document, but not where it was located, [...]

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What Spanning Backup’s Series B Round Means For Cloud to Cloud Backup

by Rob May on Mar 22, 2013 in Google Apps

Our friends at Spanning Backup announced their series B funding round this week, and so I wanted to take a few minutes to both congratulate them and to also discuss what that means for the cloud-to-cloud backup industry. I remember the initial posts when both Backupify and Spanning launched their products, and the skepticism about [...]

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How Gmail’s Archive and Search Model Made Me An OverDeleter

by Rob May on Mar 20, 2013 in Backups
Delete key

I remember the days pre-Gmail. Outlook search was horrible and so at every new job I started by setting up dozens of file folders to classify important emails. After several years the folders almost always became unmanageable. They contained too many emails to browse and, particularly for the oldest emails that could be classified several [...]

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Why Backupify Supports European Style Data Privacy Standards

by Rob May on Mar 15, 2013 in Data Ownership

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on whether or not the U.S. should adopt European data privacy protections. In Europe, there are strict rules about what companies can and can’t do in terms of collecting, using, disclosing and storing personal information, and governments are pushing to make the regulations even stronger. That has [...]

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