4shared.com is one of the most popular online file storage services. It was founded in 2005, and now, according to Alexa.com, ranks 89 in the world, attracting 2.6 million unique users daily. Their low cost service makes it easier than ever to back up and share files, music, videos, and photos online. Besides variety of features it’s available to make online slide shows and playlists, embed photos, music and video. 4shared.com is a multilingual site, with 15 languages at the moment of this review.

4shared allows to upload and share single file or entire folder – music, video, photos, documents. Anything, except illegal, porno and copyrighted materials. Also you can search files shared by other users in their public folders.
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Business digital data continue its growing at 50-80% each year, while hard drives continue crashing (140,000 every week in the USA only). Loosing the business data for even a few hours may lead to a huge revenue loss. Loosing data altogether can jeopardize the company’s future. Researching shows that 60% of businesses that loose their data shut down within 6 months. Another study, done by the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, says that 93% of companies that lose their data for 10 days or more file for bankruptcy within one year. So, it’s a critical task for businesses to backup their business data.

Traditional backup solutions, including business-oriented online backup services, can be expensive and take weeks to implement, leaving enterprise vulnerable to revenue and productivity loss. The price is even more important at the time of crisis, when businesses are being asked to do more with shrinking budgets and fewer resources.
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Traditional backup methods, such as external hard drives and writable DVDs, have serious disadvantages – they are not tolerable to natural disasters and require manual intervention. It’s more safe to have backup copies of important files somewhere in remote location with the ability of their instant restoring. With “old-style” online backup services it’s available for years, but their prices are traditionally too high, because they are oriented to “big boys”. But time changes and now you can get off-site backup for democratic, if not to say cheap, price. And even for free! One of these services is Mozy.

Mozy’s Remote Backup service is a simple, automatic and secure online backup solution. Mozy was the first successful company on the consumer remote backup marketplace. In opposite to other backup services, Mozy’s software is a small and imperceptible, while prices are low and storage space is unlimited.
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Our personal pictures are probably among most valued and precious possessions. How about getting free online storage for valuable photos, videos and other computer files? Mozy Remote Backup, the first consumers online storage service, offers 2GB for online picture storage. If 2 GB is not enough, you can always get unlimited online storage space for only $4.95 a month.

15 PetaBytes of data!

Since its start, Mozy has got several web-awards, and in 2009 stored more than 15 PetaBytes of data, including pictures, photos, and videos. But why this storage service is so popular? Not only because they offer free 2 GB space. Another reason is that Mozy’s software requires minimum system resources. It’s a small and imperceptible. Working in the background, it finds new and changed files, encrypts and sends them to the secure storage server.

Here’s what you get with the Free plan:

• 2GB free online picture storage space
• Ability to backup your photos, music, and documents
• Free software download makes storage and retrieval easy
• Encrypting before transferring for security
• Storage in a safe, remote location for your protection
• Software can do backups automatically. You will not forget.
• Even if you backup to CD or other media, Mozy adds peace of mind greatly.
• No credit card needed to sign up

It takes only a few minutes to start, so get online photo storage for free!
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The reasons to lose priceless data are known. Viruses, HDD crashes, file system damage, theft, laptop left in a taxi, coffee spill, flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake… Is it enough? In fact, data loosing is not a question of reason – it’s a question of time. More, statistically one in ten hard drives crash every year, while even an attempt of data recovering is very pricey. (Specialized companies charge about $3,000 with no guarantee).

Traditional local backup methods such as CDs/DVDs and external HDDs are expensive and susceptible to damage from scratching, water, temperature change, plus … read above. Even a new, fresh-burned optical disc may contain errors, that once can become residual – no matter have you done time-consuming data verification right after the burning, or not.

Furthermore, these methods require time, empty discs, and manual intervention. Look, you need to insert discs manually. Even if you’re doing space-saving incremental backup, you need to have fresh ones because you don’t know when your media will be totally filled. I don’t say about Blue-Ray writable discs (BD-R or BD-RE) that are even more expensive, and not every computer have Blue-Ray drive. Popular netbooks even have not DVD-drives! This means that backup is not doing regularly, and once your important data may be lost.
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It seems that online storage industry doesn’t experience difficulties, connected with the world economy crisis, because new services pop up regularly. Now meet the new one – MongoFiles, a user-friendly online storage and online backup service.

It allows to transfer, download and store data in an organized, secure and confidential manner. Mongofiles can be used to upload and share an unlimited number of files with friends, family and colleagues. It’s available to send large files up to 2 GB that are too big for email, store and backup online any type of data.
Home users typically use the service to upload, download and share their home videos, pictures (online photo storage) and other recreational files.
Professionals prefer Mongofiles for online backup and sharing files such as financial results, presentations, work related videos, MP3s vocal recordings and other productivity files.

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