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Does Carbonite still exist? ›

Acquired by OpenText in December 2019, Carbonite products bring cyber-resilient solutions to each of our customers, from home users to managed service providers and businesses of all sizes.

WATERLOO, Ontario, Dec. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), " The Information Company ," announced today that it has completed the closing of the previously announced acquisition of Carbonite, Inc.

Carbonite, Inc. is an American company that offers an online backup service, available to Windows and macOS users.

Carbonite® Safe is an automatic cloud backup solution that protects you from common forms of data loss, including ransomware, accidental deletion, computer theft and hardware failure. Once you install the software, it works quietly in the background, protecting your important files in our secure cloud.

Carbonite can refer to many different things depending on the context, but in chemistry it usually refers to salts of carbonic acid. In other words, chemicals with a CO₃ ^(2-) polyatomic ion which were formed by the reaction of H₂CO₃ and a base.

The top three of OpenText's competitors in the Data Management And Storage category are Tableau Software with 20.13%, Segment with 11.87%, ShareFile with 10.75% market share.

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In 1996, the product originally called "Livelink" became OpenText's. Between 2003 and 2005, "Livelink" evolved from being the name of a single product to being a brand applied to the names of several OpenText software products.

The article summarizes that the deal potentially brings more value than the sum of its parts by expanding OpenText's total addressable market, adding AI and DevOps technologies that can enhance OpenText's core offerings, and deepen the latter's penetration into faster-growth markets and geographies.

Top Competitors and Alternatives of Carbonite

The top three of Carbonite's competitors in the Backup category are AWS Backup with 38.74%, ConnectWise Automate with 11.99%, SolarWinds Backup with 10.69% market share.

Where does Carbonite store data? ›

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Local Backup Location: CSSB supports backing up to a local disk, an external hard disk or a network mapped drive. Cloud Backup Location: Carbonite stores your data in secured data centers located across the world. You can choose from the United States, Canada and Europe.

Internet Considerations

The connectivity determines the reliability and the internet speed determines the speed of the backup or restore. If your internet connection is slow or does not provide reliable connection to your computer, Carbonite will be unreliable backing up or restoring your files in a timely manner.

Carbonite is a great option for beginners. It keeps everything simple and straightforward. Installation is quick and painless, and the desktop application is easy to use. Initial backups take a long time, but after that, automatic backups happen in the background and you won't even notice.

Carbonite's Limitations

Although Carbonite is a decent online backup for Windows and it can back up files on a Mac, you can't use it for an online backup on Linux. It doesn't have mobile apps for Android or iOS, meaning you won't be able to make a cloud backup on your mobile devices, either.

When imprisoned in carbonite, does the victim inside still age? No when someone is actually frozen and carbonate, they do not age.

Carbonite (Star Wars), a fictional substance, most notably used to imprison Han Solo in the film The Empire Strikes Back.

If your backup is not progressing normally, reboot your computer. Rebooting often resolves minor backup issues and allows Carbonite to connect to our servers. When the computer powers back on, allow all startup processes to complete before attempting to open and check Carbonite.