Re: carbonite

[krymson () gmail com]

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?