Archive for January, 2007

Consumer Electronics Show

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

It seems like everyone and their brother are heading out to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this year. While we’d love to be there, we couldn’t make it this year. However, lots and lots of our friends did, so we want to give all of our readers a heads up on where to find the best coverage.

First, check out our good friends over at XYZ Computing and their excellent coverage of the event. Chief Editor Sal Cangeloso does an excellent job maintaining this electronics/hardware review blog. It’s always one of our first stops on the internet, and a must-read for anyone interested in all things hardware. Their coverage will be, as always, excellent.

In the Web 2.0 world, one of our favorite blogs is Gigaom. Unpretentious, and all about the facts, they write an excellent blog. Just reading their opening coverage of Slingbox’s new PC-to-TV box had us all excited about all the new materials we’ll be seeing at CES this year.

For less-than-live coverage, but a great overall view, we highly recommend checking out this January 6 article in the NY Times. While we never read the NY Times for live coverage, we love their analysis. And this article is very comprehensive.

Check these out, and enjoy. And we’re also eagerly awaiting the new-big-news from MacWorld coming up. Let’s hope for something big!

Best Blogs in the Business

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

We’ve recently started reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog and have been very impressed. What’s interesting is that it’s a relatively new blog that has really grown in popularity quite impressively - rising all the way to the 35th position on Technorati’s rating system. You can check out these are more interesting facts here.

There are literally millions of blogs out there, so do find one that has not only relevant but resourceful posts is quite a treat. We highly recommend you check it out.

Our New Prices!

Monday, January 1st, 2007

Happy January, everyone! There are lots of big changes in the world of online data storage for 2007, and lots of changes for all of us here at Symagio. First, and most importantly, we’ve drastically changed our prices.

We spent a lot of time over the holidays optimizing our equipment, our software, and our process for data backup. We’re more confident in it than ever. We wanted to celebrate by passing this onto you, our great clients, in the form of new, lower prices.

We’ll be charging a new, flat fee for all of our clients: we’ll license each computer and server you want to use for the low price of $19.95 a month, and then we simply charge based upon the amount of data you backup. It’s $5 a gig per month. Unlimited restores, and unlimited uploads. It’s easy - if the amount of data you want to back up is larger than your bandwidth can support, we’ll simply FedEx you our external hardware, you load it up and send it back to us. Then you have ALL of your data protected off-site, constantly updated, and available when you need it. It’s a process that is hard to beat.

We do FedEx’d restores on demand, so your downtime in the event of a data failure is minimal. Ultimately, that is what it is all about: protecting your data, no matter the size. Online, disk-to-disk based technology is the most effective and timely way to do this.

We’ve also settled into our new offices in Tribeca. We’re big fans of being in this neighborhood. It’s much more convenient than our old place on Park Avenue, quieter, and will allow us to more effectively manage our growth. If you’re ever in the neighborhood, let us know: we’d love to show you around.