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How applicable would Carbonite be for businesses or IT departments, as a means of secondary or primary storage?

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How applicable would Carbonite be for businesses or IT departments, as a means of secondary or primary storage?

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I think that while we aren’t specifically going after the business market yet, we know that it will come. People will go into Staples to buy Carbonite for their home PC and think, “Gee that would be great for my small business too.” So we’ll have to come out with an enterprise edition sometime in the near future. The same thing happened with Spysweeper, McAfee, and most everyone else in the home PC security market. Right now we do have small businesses signing up for Carbonite, but they have to open a separate account for each PC. We know it would be easier to have one master license for the firm — it’s something we will have to be responsive to when we can get some breathing time. Where do you feel the industry is heading? The industry is heading toward cheap and simple, because that’s what consumers want. That’s not to say that expensive and complicated backup products won’t continue to prosper in the large enterprise market – they will. But the really big trend in the industry is ba

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