How to Choose the Right Cloud Backup for Your Needs
If you have a Mac or Windows PC and want to ensure the important files and data on it are protected from the most common forms of data loss, both Carbonite Safe and Carbonite Endpoint can get the job done. But there are significant differences between these two cloud backup solutions that you should know about before you decide which one is best suited to your purposes.
Cloud Backup: High-Level Comparison
At a high level, Carbonite Safe is primarily designed for personal use and for very small businesses (VSBs). It’s an easy-to-use, automatic cloud backup solution that protects files and folders from everyday data loss due to things like ransomware, accidental deletion, human error and hardware failure, to name a few.
While the Carbonite Endpoint cloud backup solution also protects you from these adverse events, it also includes several advanced features that help protect small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and enterprises.
Carbonite Endpoint also includes features designed for those who have to administer the solution, making it easier to deploy and manage on up to thousands of devices. These devices are often distributed over a wide geographic area and across many different departments, divisions and offices, each with its own backup and recovery requirements.
A few examples of the kinds of customers who find Carbonite Safe cloud backup suitable for their needs include freelance photographers, contractors, gig workers like graphic designers, and consumers who need a safe place to store their passport photos, family videos, tax documents and other important files. When we refer to VSBs, we’re generally talking about one to three employees with typical digital assets like Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and possibly image files, like JPEG and PNG, to protect.
As they grow, very small businesses often turn into small or midsize businesses. When they do, their cloud backup requirements become more extensive.
The SMB segment includes businesses from dozens to thousands of employees. Once your workforce becomes this large, the amount of data you need to protect also increases. This increases costs, especially when much of the data is duplicated across different users’ machines. If the organization is subject to regulatory requirements, it will need a minimum level of security for data in storage and in transit. SMBs also have much lower tolerances for data loss, so backup intervals need to be minimized as much as possible. Carbonite Endpoint is designed for these types of environments. A few examples of SMB entities that require advanced backup functionality include healthcare organizations, municipalities, school districts, real estate businesses, accounting firms and architects.
Cloud Backup: Feature Drilldown
Carbonite Safe is designed to be simple enough so that non-technical users can easily install it, set it up and perform recovery when necessary. Once the software is installed, there’s not much a user needs to do. The solution will back up continually on its own, using advanced encryption to secure data as it’s being transferred to the cloud and once it’s there.
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