Carbonite agrees- online backup services are good for the environment

Posted by Joe on April 23rd, 2008

The folks over at Carbonite, one of our top rated online backup services, picked up on our Earth Day post and added some great points about why online backup services are more eco-friendly than many of the alternatives.

Here is an excerpt from their post on the Carbonite Blog:

With online backup, you don't have to save hard copies of documents and you don't have to store stacks of plastic disks or CDs with all your backups on them. And, online backup cuts down on home storage devices that have to be produced and shipped around the globe. So, if you don't use online backup for any other reason… do it for the planet. It is, after all, “Earth Week.”

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