Jul 26, 2006 : Carbonite Offers Student PC Backup
📅 - Online backup company Carbonite (carbonite.com) announced on Tuesday it is offering a 20 percent discount to students that sign up for a one or two year subscription before October 31.
Carbonite provides an automated online PC backup and restoration service, offering unlimited storage space for $5 per month.
Students who take advantage of the offer will automatically be entered in a draw for a desktop PC. For information on the student edition and to download a free 15-day trial, students should visit the Carbonite Web site.
"When we surveyed 460 students from Babson College, the University of Rhode Island, Georgetown and the University of Michigan, we learned that 75 percent have experienced some form of data loss, sometimes with catastrophic results," says David Friend, CEO of Carbonite. "One student told us how her hard disk had crashed two days before the end of the semester and she lost the term paper that she had been working on for two months."
A survey of 185 "computer-savvy" business people conducted in 2005 reveals that 69 percent of respondents have experienced data loss due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or some other disaster. Forty percent say they have experienced data loss two or more times in the past 24 months. The survey was commissioned by Carbonite and conducted by strategy consulting firm Fletcher Spaght.
Carbonite provides an automated online PC backup and restoration service, offering unlimited storage space for $5 per month.
Students who take advantage of the offer will automatically be entered in a draw for a desktop PC. For information on the student edition and to download a free 15-day trial, students should visit the Carbonite Web site.
"When we surveyed 460 students from Babson College, the University of Rhode Island, Georgetown and the University of Michigan, we learned that 75 percent have experienced some form of data loss, sometimes with catastrophic results," says David Friend, CEO of Carbonite. "One student told us how her hard disk had crashed two days before the end of the semester and she lost the term paper that she had been working on for two months."
A survey of 185 "computer-savvy" business people conducted in 2005 reveals that 69 percent of respondents have experienced data loss due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or some other disaster. Forty percent say they have experienced data loss two or more times in the past 24 months. The survey was commissioned by Carbonite and conducted by strategy consulting firm Fletcher Spaght.
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