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History

Founded in 2001 the company is headquartered in El Segundo, California, and had offices in Australia, India, and the Ukraine. It has eleven datacenters around the world including five in the United States, with others in Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, India, and Ukraine.

Their core product, SOS Online Backup, is an integrated local and online backup tool

Remote backup service

A remote, online, or managed backup service is a service that provides users with a system for the backup and storage of computer files. Online backup providers are companies that provide this type of service to end users ....

that allows users to back up

Backup

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

their data to an off-site location

Data center

A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...

. It has versions for consumer

Consumer

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s, SMBs

Small business

A small business is a business that is privately owned and operated, with a small number of employees and relatively low volume of sales. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships...

and reseller

Reseller

A reseller is a company or individual that purchases goods or services with the intention of reselling them rather than consuming or using them. This is usually done for profit...

s. The program works primarily on Windows operating

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

systems, but there are also backup clients for iPhone

IPhone

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, iPad

IPad

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, Blackberry OS devices

Blackberry

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, Mac version

Mac OS

Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...

and Facebook

Facebook

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.

The program received awards from various consumer focussed publications, such as Notebookreview.com, and was a PC Magazine

PC Magazine

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Editors Choice in 2006, 2008, and 2010. The New York Times
The New York Times
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recommended the program in its article about "easy ways to improve your computer life".

Features

Features include continuous data protection

Continuous data protection

Continuous data protection , also called continuous backup or real-time backup, refers to backup of computer data by automatically saving a copy of every change made to that data, essentially capturing every version of the data that the user saves...

, unlimited versioning

Versioning file system

A versioning file system is any computer file system which allows a computer file to exist in several versions at the same time. Thus it is a form of revision control. Most common versioning file systems keep a number of old copies of the file. Some limit the number of changes per minute or per...

, archiving

Products

SOS Online Backup comes in three versions:

SOS Online Backup for Home
The home version comes with 50 GB and 100 GB, with a subscription ranging from 1–3 years and users may backup up to five computers with a single account.

SOS Online Backup for Business
The Business version starts at 10 GB storage size and may be upgraded up to any limit of storage with a subscription ranging from 1–3 years and users may backup any number of computers with a single account. The business version comes with an ultra safe option which prevents customers data access by the staff but password cannot be retrieved by any means in case of password lost.

SOS Online Backup for Resellers
The reseller version is similar to a business version where the reseller may fix the storage size and quote their own price and may also request for re-branding the backup program with their own design and logo.

History

Features

Products

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