Egnyte's core focus has been providing an On Demand File Server to the SMB market. Backup capability has never been our leading value proposition. Much to our surprise, we continue to get significant interest from customers who want to use Egnyte only for backup. Ease of use, easy access to backed up data online, automatic versioning of changed files and ability to search - are some of the reasons.
We, therefore, are being pulled by the market to enhance backup. I am wondering should we buy a company which has been working on backup and nothing else - doing smart de-deuping, data compression and potentially with a hadup architecture in the back, or build some of these capabilities ourselves.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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Back up is an important thing, especially when people's valuable work is on the line. My computer crashed a while back and I was very thankfull I had been backing up my data!
Online backup of your data is a very smart choice, as many people overlook backing up their data. I make sure to do it every day. Could you imagine losing a weeks worth of data simple because you didn't take the time to back it up?
Backup capability is a major issue for a good portions of businesses, the majority of all their data is stored on computers, who wouldn't be interested in this.
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