Online Backup Now Also by HP

HP announced the availability of HP Upline, a new subscription
service designed to help customers readily back up, access, share and
store digital content over any Internet connection.

The new service provides consumers and small businesses the security
of knowing their digital world is protected in a secure, offsite
location in case their local PC gets lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.

Both consumers and small business customers can try out a limited plan at no cost for one year.

“With increasingly more personal and business content being housed
on PCs, the easy-to-use and affordable HP Upline service protects and
shares everything from memories in digital photos to critical business
documents,” said Ulf Claesson, vice president and general manager,
Personal Systems Group, HP. “HP Upline delivers tools for a
differentiated and more personal experience from a vendor consumers and
small businesses can trust.”

The new service is a result of HP’s recent acquisition of Opelin, a
small, privately held San Jose, Calif.-based company that provides
enhanced security for scalable online services, including storage,
backup and data migration.

Simple and secure data backup, remote access and file sharing
By providing simple and more secure file storage, automatic data
backup, remote access and sharing, HP Upline helps protect against data
loss due to a lost or stolen PC, hardware failure, file corruption or
catastrophic disaster.

With HP Upline, customer data is automatically backed up on a
user-determined interval to multiple online servers using the latest
encryption technology. The service also helps small and medium business
customers increase productivity by connecting them to their data and
allowing them to do more with it – from more convenient document
collaboration with colleagues to remotely accessing data when traveling
or at a customer site over an Internet connection.

HP Upline users have access to a variety of tools, including:

• File sharing and remote access – share files of any size by
  emailing a password protected and time-limited link rather than an
  attachment.
• Remote access – enjoy greater productivity on the go with the
  ability to open, edit, share and publish files from any
  Internet-connected PC using a secured log-in and password.
• File publishing – publicly share data by easily generating a URL to
  publish content to a website or blog; automatically refresh files
  published to multiple locations to keep public data current.
• Local archiving – create archive copies of files that can be saved
  to a CD, DVD, NAS, USB drive or a second partition on a hard drive.
• Data migration – easily migrate files to a new PC.
• Multi-user dashboard – easily set up, manage and track the usage of employee accounts within a small business.

Consumer and small business packages
A limited plan of HP Upline is available to anyone in the United
States at no cost for one year. This limited plan includes a fixed
amount of online storage, remote access, large file sharing,
publishing, and automatic, online backup.

Users also can choose to purchase one of three subscription service plans with unlimited storage:

• Home & Home Office – Designed for a home with up to three PCs
  to manage their access using a single log-in and password. Available
  for $59 per year.
• Family – Designed for families that want up to three independent
  subscriptions to allow for file privacy between family account log-ins.
  Available for $149 per year.
• Professional – Designed for small businesses with up to 100 PCs.
  Also includes a multi-user administrative dashboard, advanced technical
  support and a lifeline number for emergency file recovery. Available
  for $299 per year.

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