World Backup Day, March 31

World Backup Day announced its giveaway and official sponsors for 2012.

Last year, people generated over 1.8 zettabytes of data. That’s nearly 57 billion iPads. As we live an increasingly digital life, the need for regular data backups has never been more necessary.

March 31st has been declared World Backup Day to raise awareness about backing up our data regularly.

Consumers can enter the World Backup Day Sweepstakes for the chance to win hard drives, online cloud storage, and more. From March 26th – 31st, World Backup Day will give away awesome prizes on its Facebook page to get people prepared for World Backup Day.

Exclusive deals on backup related products and services are featured on the World Backup Day’s web site.

Presenting Sponsor:

Backblaze
Founded by a team of entrepreneurs with security, scalability, usability backgrounds and located in the Silicon Valley, its mission is to ensure that computer data is backed up. It was selected as a winner of the AlwaysOn Global Top 250 private companies for game-changing technology and market value. It provides a free trial and automatically backs up all data for $5 per month.

Additional Sponsors:

LaCie
With operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia, it is a manufacturer of storage devices for PC, Apple, and Linux. It has differentiated itself through design and technical performance.

MiMedia
It brings consumers a new approach to online backup – a way to protect, access, enjoy and share their digital lives all in one place. Beyond online backup, it also provides instant on demand access to files from anywhere. The company is privately held and based just outside of New York.

Western Digital
It provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces HDDs and SSDs that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. Its storage technologies serve a range of host applications including client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own storage systems.

Idealstor
Established in 2002, it is a manufacturer of ejectable disk to disk storage solutions. It offers a disk to disk backup platform that outperforms tape drives and libraries in performance, reliability, scalability, ease of use and functionality to take away the headaches, pain and expenses normally associated with tape-based backup systems and offer you peace of mind.