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DataFort
Launches PCFort: Super-Secure, Inexpensive Backup for all PC
Users, from Families to Pop Stars
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Date : 11/28/2004 3:12:00 PM Source : United Kingdom News Onlypunjab.com |
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DataFort today launched PCFort
– the world’s first off-site backup service aimed
squarely at PC/laptop owners, from home users to students,
consultants to micro-businesses worldwide. |
| More and more people are storing
their 'lives' are on their PC. For example, all of their children's
photos, mortgage information or correspondence with attorneys,
tax and financial advisors. But only a tiny percentage backup
this data should the worst happen - theft, flood, fire, accidental
damage, etc.. |
| U2 singer Bono describes his laptop
as “his portable brain” and could have saved lost
song lyrics if he’d backed up to PCFort when his laptop
was stolen from his car during the making of their hit album
All That You Cant Leave Behind. |
| “What can a home user do to
backup their PC?” asks Gavin Smith, Founder and CEO at
DataFort. “External hard drives and traditional tape drives
are too expensive, and if your house burns down, so does your
backup! Automatic and efficient, off-site backup is the answer
– it has gone from strength to strength in the commercial
world in recent years – but until PCFort it has been far
too expensive and complicated for home user” |
| All computer users need to backup: |
- Digital photos
- Wills, home finance and legal files
- Letters, email and correspondence
- Essays, coursework and theses
- CVs, references, and job files
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PCFort comes from DataFort, a
software development and service company that has specialised
in off-site backup and disaster recovery systems to businesses
around the world for the past five years. Smith is keen to
differentiate their service from ‘garage vendors’
and warns against PC users backing up their precious data
to email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo! and Google.
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“While free one gigabyte
web mail accounts may sound tempting, it’s a risky game
to use what is essentially e-mail storage provision for backing
up precious personal files,” he says. “Recent
cases of people losing all of their files from an Internet
e-mail account is proof enough that, when it comes to storing
and retrieving critical data, the best option is through a
tried-and-tested service that can prove its security and resilience.”
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Pricing & Availability
PCFort backup accounts cost £1.99 per gigabyte per month
for UK users, €2.99 per month for European customers and
$2.99 per month for US customers. It is available exclusively
through www.pcfort.com. |
