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Backblaze for Business Offers Flat-Rate Online Backups
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  by Joe Kissell <joe@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10715>

  Online backup provider Backblaze is now offering Backblaze for
  Business, which lets business users back up an unlimited amount of
  data for an annual fee of $50 per computer. That is to say, the
  company is now providing their services to businesses at the same
  price they already offered to individuals. Although that may sound
  unremarkable at first blush, competitors - notably Mozy's MozyPro
  service - charge a flat rate for individuals but a per-gigabyte fee
  for businesses, potentially increasing their customers' costs
  dramatically (and unpredictably).

<https://secure.backblaze.com/business.htm>
<http://mozy.com/pro/>

  The Backblaze software, which runs on Mac OS X and Windows,
  automatically and continuously backs up all data files (but can be
  configured to exclude particular files or file types). Backblaze for
  Business customers can also deploy and manage the software for an
  entire company from a central location.

  I applaud this move in that it will be a big help for small
  businesses on a budget, but I'd also like to see Backblaze offer
  something along the lines of CrashPlan's Family Unlimited Plan,
  which applies flat-rate pricing to any number of computers in a
  single household. (As someone with, at the moment, five Macs within
  arm's reach, I find per-computer backup subscriptions to be
  unreasonably pricey.)

<http://www4.crashplan.com/consumer/>

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