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Carbonite Release 3.7 Features Enhancements Suggested by Carbonite User Base
BOSTON — October 14, 2008 — Carbonite Inc., the leading provider of
online backup services to consumers and small businesses, today
announced a major upgrade to Carbonite Online Backup, Carbonite Release
3.7. The new version is based on feedback from Carbonite's customers
about features they wanted to see and includes enhancements such as an
easy-to-use interface that allows customers to search for and restore
files by name, file type and date.
"We spent a significant amount
of time talking with customers for this upgrade of Carbonite," said
David Friend, founder and CEO of Carbonite. "We've always had the goal
of Carbonite being the simplest online backup to use and we've been
lauded for our success in that goal, but we are seeking perfection for
the day-to-day experience of using Carbonite. We found that our users
had some great feedback that, when implemented in Release 3.7, makes
Carbonite even easier to use."
Carbonite also spent time honing
performance for version 3.7. Through a series of improvements to the
way Carbonite monitors computer resources, Carbonite will offer better
system performance during the initial scan and backup upload.
"The
initial upload is the most important process the user goes through,"
Friend said. "To make the process simple for the user, Carbonite has
always worked in the background with little interference to every day
computer usage. With these improvements, Carbonite will continue to
utilize very little of the computer's memory and bandwidth while
improving upload speed."
Carbonite Release 3.7 features other
enhancements to the initial sign-up process. Upon installation,
Carbonite will now automatically scan a user's computer for programs
known to conflict with the installation of Carbonite. If any such
programs are found, Carbonite will provide step-by-step instructions for
how to work around the potential conflict, eliminating the need to
contact Customer Support for assistance.
Subscribers to Carbonite will be upgraded over the next several weeks to Release 3.7.
About Carbonite
Carbonite
launched its Online Backup service in May 2006. Carbonite's
industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price
revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup
services. So far, the company has backed up 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's mission is to provide an affordable, reliable,
secure and easy-to-use solution for the mainstream computer user.
Carbonite is available to consumers and small businesses through
numerous channels, including its corporate Web site, major US retailers
and international distributors. For more information, please visit
www.carbonite.co.uk.
