Florida Offering Business Free Data Backup

Florida’s Chamber of Commerce is encouraging companies to prepare for hurricanes with a free e-mail backup service they can activate as soon as a hurricane warning is issued.

According to the Associated Press’s Melissa Nelson, protecting computer data is becoming a routine part of hurricane preparations. That’s why the Chamber is offering the service, she says.

“It’s getting increasingly more critical the way businesses rely on e-mail these days. Everybody carries around smart phones and PDAs, and I think it’s critical you have some kind of protection for that,” Blake Gehres, the state chamber’s technology officer, told Nelson.

Similarly, Nelson notes, “one Boston-based service provider, carbonite.com, is offering six months of free data backup for computer users in hurricane-prone states who sign up before June 15. The service excludes backup of music and videos, but includes an unlimited amount of other data.”

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