The Computer Technology Review posted an article by Eran Farajun of Asigra about backing up via the cloud.  Asigra, not surprisingly, offers cloud-related backup and recovery services.  Itdoes point out that it doesn’t really make sense to just use your old backup model and point it to the cloud or even offsite.  Thearticle also also points at virtualization as an important recover path.

NovaStor has launched a SaaS aimed at the end user.  Their new Storageline.com is a site that provides free local backup software and connects you to their network of Offsite backup providers, where you can pay for remote backups.  the only problems….well, for one, Vembu announced pretty much this model with Vembu @ Home a while back, and two, NovaStor is too expensive…most of their resellers are charging in the $2.50/gig per month range.  MSPs and Resllers through The Backup Plan can beat that.

Google has announced that all Google Apps customers now benefit from a totay top-notch and enterprise-level backup system, Google Advanced Backup, which is how they can guarantee 99.9% uptime.  Makes you wonder, though, if they announced this today…what did they have before this?