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In September 2015, Backblaze launched a new product, B2 Cloud Storage. Being an Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it is targeted at software integration for different kinds of businesses. It directly competes with similar services, such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

There are situations when in backup destination folder exists other files which are not part of the backup. In such a case you can use the "Clean destination folder" feature from Backup4all.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a widely used network protocol for transferring files between computers over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the internet. FTP lets people and applications exchange and share data within their offices and across the Internet. FTP was one of the first technologies developed to solve this common need, and it remains—with several generations of enhancements—the second most popular protocol used today (after HTTP, or the "World Wide Web").

Scheduling the backups to be executed periodically without user intervention will help you save time.

Hitachi Content Platform for Cloud Scale (HCP for Cloud Scale) is a software-defined object storage solution that is based on a massively parallel microservice architecture and is compatible with the Amazon S3 application programming interface (API). HCP for Cloud Scale is especially well suited to service applications requiring high bandwidth and compatibility with Amazon S3 APIs.

Cisco brings together network, security, analytics, and management and delivers a comprehensive portfolio of multicloud software, infrastructure, integrated solutions, and services to simplify how you connect, protect, and consume cloud in a multicloud world.

Hubic is a service developed by OVH which enables you to save documents such as photos and videos online, in a totally private secure space, to share them with who you choose, and to make them available on various devices: computers, tablets, smartphones.

Tiscali SpA is an Italy-based company engaged in the telecommunications sector. The Company is the head of Tiscali group that offers integrated Internet access, telephony and multimedia services.

Scaleway’s cloud elements are designed & built to work together, offering you a seamless, world-class cloud experience. Scaleway is a provider of servers in the cloud with a variety of options, such as S3 compatible.

Cloud Storage has an ever-growing list of storage bucket locations where you can store your data with multiple automatic redundancy options. Whether you are optimizing for split-second response time, or creating a robust disaster recovery plan, customize where and how you store your data.

HiDrive online storage uses cloud technology to allow you contact with your photos, music and documents from any computer or internet phone. So you can be anywhere in the world and still have access to your favourite files via your secure online storage.

Using tags in Backup4all you can schedule multiple backup jobs to run one after the other.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier.

You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, and inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

Aruba Cloud is our Cloud service brand for the European market. Designed with an aim to provide a complete range of Cloud services, it meets the needs of companies whatever their project may be.

DDN is the world’s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for Enterprise At Scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government and academia customers. Through its DDN and Tintri divisions, the company delivers AI, Data Management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations.

This article explains how you can define a backup job in Backup4all that will back-up your data from Microsoft Azure.

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) launched its breakthrough cloud computing service, ‘Akaza', raising the bar in cloud computing in Sri Lanka to new heights. ‘Akaza' provides end-to-end cloud computing services providing business organisations with enhanced agility, quick service delivery, and cost efficiencies whilst providing maximum ROI as well as improved scalability.

Dark Cloud Storage (DCS) is an object storage with redundant data storage in German data centers. In combination with the products of numerous manufacturers, the cloud storage can be seamlessly integrated into your network and opens up completely new possibilities for you to save backups and other data economically and securely. You always have as much storage space as you need and only pay for what you use. Our storage platform is robust, quickly scalable and reliably protects your data from loss.

vCloud Air was a public cloud computing service built on vSphere from VMware. vCloud Air has three "infrastructure as a service" (IaaS) subscription service types: dedicated cloud, virtual private cloud, and disaster recovery. vCloud Air also offers a pay-as-you-go service named Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand.

In Q2 2017, VMware sold vCloud Air to French cloud service provider OVH.

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.

With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.

Whether you're a seasoned system administrator or developer looking for full self-service capabilities and automation support, an IT manager looking for a turn-key IT hosting solution or looking to offload large processing tasks, Exoscale has a matching service.

NetApp unlocks the best of cloud so that you put your data to work in the applications that run your business. It’s called building a data fabric, and you’re in good company.

The SwiftStack data storage and management platform simplifies your on-premises infrastructure while enabling limitless scale of performance and capacity, helps increase the utilization level of data, and allows you to take incremental steps on your journey towards cloud.

Host Europe, a German company, was founded in 1997 with a vision to provide high quality hosting. The company hosts more than 1 million domains, with 250,000 customers, and 46,000 virtual servers in use. The website is available in German and English.

Cloudian, Inc. is a US enterprise data storage company headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Europe and Asia. It produces Amazon S3-compatible object storage software, scale-out file services software, and pre-configured hardware appliances

What is a backup? A backup is when you make a copy of your data in case you lose the original data. You can use the backup copy to get your data back if something goes wrong. It is important for companies to have a backup plan in case something bad happens.