Geoff Akerlund, Author at BackupReview.com

About Geoff Akerlund

Geoff Akerlund is the founder and editor-in-chief of BackupReview.com. He enjoys attending music festivals, whitewater kayaking on the American River, and board game nights in his free time.

Symform to Discontinue Peer-To-Peer Cloud Storage Service

Posted on June 16 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

Symform is set to discontinue their cloud storage service on July 31, 2016, according to an email sent to users. The peer-to-peer (P2P) storage service is the latest in a series closures that is sure to send shockwaves through the …

KeepVault Review

Posted on June 13 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

KeepVault is a cloud backup company headquartered in Troy, Michigan. Founded in 2006, the service claims to provide a faster and more cost-effective backup solution to competitors such as Mozy, SOS Online Backup, and Dropbox for Business. Rather than charge per device, …

Cryptomator Is an Open-Source App to Encrypt Your Cloud Files

Posted on June 7 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

Cryptomator is an app that works with existing cloud services, to add zero-knowledge encryption to your cloud files. Since the software is open source, you can verify that it doesn’t contain any backdoors. It’s also free (mostly).

Mozy Review: EMC Adds File Sync to Cloud Backup Service

Posted on May 2 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

Mozy is a cloud backup service from EMC Corporation. EMC is no stranger to cloud storage or big data. The company also developed Syncplicity (our review) for enterprise file sync and share. File sync is now available to Mozy customers, so …

Bitcasa Drive and Copy.com Alternatives

Posted on April 29 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

Both Bitcasa Drive and Copy.com are shutting down in May. These aren’t the first cloud storage services to shut down and leave their users hanging, and they likely won’t be the last. If you’re wondering where you should put your data after …

SurDoc Shuts Down Cloud Storage Service

Posted on April 27 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

SurDoc announced today that they will be shutting down their service on May 31, 2016. This follows a string of recent closures in the cloud storage industry, starting with Copy.com and Bitcasa Drive earlier this year.

Retrospect Adds Amazon Glacier Support

Posted on April 22 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

Retrospect added support for more cloud storage services to their line of backup and recovery software on Wednesday. New Amazon S3 regions, including low-cost storage services such as Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud Storage Nearline can now be used as offsite destinations …

Bitcasa Drive to Be Discontinued

Posted on April 21 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

Bitcasa Drive will be discontinued, according to an email sent to users and in a post on their company blog. Current users will have until 11:59 p.m. PST on May 20 to download their files, before they are permanently deleted.

The Best Free Cloud Storage – 22 Services That Give You More

Posted on April 14 2016 by Geoff Akerlund

Free cloud storage is all the rage. If you want to upload a school or work document, or share a simple family photo album, there’s no need to spend money on an expensive paid service. Most people don’t need terabytes of storage …

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Symform to Discontinue Peer-To-Peer Cloud Storage Service

KeepVault Review

Cryptomator Is an Open-Source App to Encrypt Your Cloud Files

Mozy Review: EMC Adds File Sync to Cloud Backup Service

Bitcasa Drive and Copy.com Alternatives

SurDoc Shuts Down Cloud Storage Service

Retrospect Adds Amazon Glacier Support

Bitcasa Drive to Be Discontinued

The Best Free Cloud Storage – 22 Services That Give You More

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