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It’s here. It’s live. It’s free. (for now!)

After [a long time] in the making, I am happy to announce that my company, Symantec, has launched our first software-as-a-service: Symantec Online Backup, part of Symantec Protection Network. Symantec Online Backup is designed to be an easy to use, highly reliable online backup service for Windows computers (currently 2000, 2003, and XP, with others on the way).

For the next month or so, you can get a completely free 10GB promotional account to kick the tires and test it out.

Backup is seamless and automatic, and we do all of the fancy things you’d expect like:

  • no scheduling needed
  • runs as a system service
  • we capture and transmit only the changed bytes of files
  • we keep a comprehensive history of the file versions so you can recover back in time if needed
  • every aspect/configuration (of which there are purposely few!) can be managed from a web browser, anywhere, anytime at secure.spn.com

As the first of many versions and services to come, it represents the foundation upon which we’ll continue to improve and innovate. Please feel free to signup and try it out, and send feedback either through the built in feedback mechanisms, or directly to me. We also have forums available at https://forums.symantec.com/syment?category.id=spn that I’ll be bouncing around on.

This is where typically someone would end with a “now time for some rest”, but our 24/7 service never sleeps :) See you on the service!

Richard
Product Management – Symantec Protection Network