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SpiderOak announced an upgrade to its suite of online backup-related services for home and business users. New features in SpiderOak 2.0 include a fourfold increase in application speed, faster file retrieval from extra-large folders, and reduced memory usage during backups as well as browsing. These enhancements augment SpiderOak’s other benefits, including ‘multi computer – multi platform – single location’ backup and advanced de-duplication that cuts backup/sync time by as much as 90% while conserving storage space.

SpiderOak enables users to store, backup, access, share and sync files to their personal “SuperCloud” from any combination of Windows, Mac and Linux computers as well as external storage media. No other service offers this full range of functionality, operating system support, or device acceptance.

These capabilities allow users to create a virtual personal network from which they can access stored documents, music, photos, movies and other data 24×7 from any computer anywhere in the world with a click, including historical versions and deleted files that are irretrievable with most online storage and synchronization services.

Other unique SpiderOak features include the ability to create password-protected ‘ShareRooms’ for access by designated users, the ability to aggregate multiple devices on one account to take advantage of bulk storage rates, and an industry-first no-password-storage security policy that prevents even SpiderOak employees from viewing user information including file and folder names.

SpiderOak is free for the first 2GB of storage, $10/month from 2 to 100GB, and $10/month for each additional 100GB increment for an unlimited number of devices.

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Online storage can be an ilow cost option for those people who are running small and medium businesses.

Online storage, sometimes also known as offsite storage, involves paying a monthly or yearly fee to a web-based backup service provider who allows you to save and retrieve your data over the Internet.

This type of service can be a good alternative to your existing backup solution, which allowing you to backup important files and store them to a secure, offsite location. Protected from theft and fire.

A important to select these backup service provider is data redundancy. They must have multiple sites where your files are stored, ensuring that if one site fails, the others will still have your files intact.

With online storage, your files are immediately accessible from any Internet connected computer, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not only does this make distributing particular files or presentations to your colleagues easier, but it also means that you no longer always need to haul around your heavy laptop computer!

Simply connect online from any computer and you can instantly access your files.

An online service offers 30GB of free storage accessible via a web browser from anywhere in the world.

The Humyo.com service has nearly 90TB of storage in a former Bank of England vault and an intelligent interface that senses the type of device accessing it and uses the appropriate interface.

This means you can access your files from a mobile phone and stream music and video to it.

However, the basic service does not allow you to transfer files directly to a local machine: you have to open them and save them from within an application. 25GB of the storage is restricted to multimedia files.

A £29.99-a-year premium service gives you 100GB, data encryption, and software that sets the storage up as an extra drive on your PC.

The software also automatically backs up your PC and allows real-time online collaboration on a document over the web.

Founder Dan Conlon says 100,000 people had already signed up at the end of a six-month beta phase, despite a lack of publicity.

The site also allows users to share folders with friends or embed a player in emails and on sites such as Facebook and Myspace so people can view your pictures or videos.