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Your files are precious.  Now you can secure them with an all-in-one solution for data online backup, storage, and file sharing. Memopal offers a free 7-day trial to try their services. Verious plans are available.  Their basic plan includes 150 GB of storage space that only costs $4.08 per GB/month which includes unlimited bandwidth with no limitation on file size. There are also business solutions available which can be purchased based on need with no maximum storage limitations or user accounts. Available features include WebDAV, desktop client for all operating systems (Win, Mac, Linux), mobile access, and drag-and-drop file allocation. Customer support is provided via FAQs, tutorials, support tickets, FTP, email, live chat, and phone.

MemoPal is a Windows client backup and online data  storage application (Mac was released in June 2008; Linux and IPhone versions are on the drawing board).  The company was launched by an Italian group of software engineers in April 2008.

Considering how young the company is, we are very impressed with its growth and track record so far. Many other online backup providers, like MediaMax (formerly known as Streamload; and recently known as TheLinkUp), OmniDrive and Xdrive are slowly becoming obsolete, but MemoPal is growing and excels not only in English, but also in many other languages. MemoPal is available in English, Chinese, French, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. MemoPal plans to add 24 additional languages very soon.  When these become available, boasting a total of 35 languages, MemoPal will become the leading site in multi-language services in the online backup industry.

Once downloaded, installed and configured, MemoPal automatically and continuously backs up the files on the system to a remote server through a secure Internet connection, with 128 bit encryption, while transferring data and with 448 blow-fish encryption during storage. The internet backup is protected against malfunction, theft and human error. Recent press releases report that the number of users subscribing to its services is over 1,000 users per day.

MemoPal offers its subscribers a 150 GB of scalable space for $49 per year.  Other services such as Carbonite and Mozy charge $50 and $55 per year, respectively for unlimited space; Idrive charges $50 for 150 GB. MemoPal also offers $99 per year for 250 GB of space. MemoPal currently does not offer unlimited online backup services, however, a typical online backup user utilizes only 20 GB of space. Therefore, limiting space probably will not affect most users.

Users can download and use a fully functional free trial version (7 day trial) of the software with 1 GB of backup space. The no cost trial account allows you to upload data for seven days, and you then only have 90 days to recover your data. The trial version will automatically ignore large files even if they are selected for backup.

The RAID 5 technology that creates this software ensures that triple copies of the user’s data content are maintained across servers located in three different continents so that data is not lost in the event of disaster and natural calamities.

The MemoPal Global File System (MGFS) is a checksum-base cross-file compression algorithm that is offered at a very nominal rate of $0.40 per year per GB and is intended to transfer files quickly and safely. The backup compression technology creates a back up of the identical parts of files and links them to different files that use that part several times as per demand – using server side user data similarities management. This ensures efficient use of resources and security for the files and folders.

Files are uploaded to MemoPal very fast using the client side de-duplication functionality, which is faster than block-level incremental backup.

File versioning and multi-user collaboration features allow the user to store and share different versions of a file in the remote server for access, collaboration or restoration. Damaged files can be restored into the system from the backup at the remote MemoPal server with ease. The ‘One Click sharing’ feature allows multiple users to share large files with co-workers, friends and/or relatives, by using a single right click and emailing invitations.

All files saved on the system are automatically backed up into the remote server in real-time. MemoPal is scalable, and is designed to allow users to increase space at any time. The software monitors system usage parameters and adjusts to the user needs while the process of backup happens discretely and effectively in the background.

The advanced search engine capabilities help locate files on the remote server making it very easy to use.

If you accidentally delete your files, they’re not lost unlike other competitors. This is an excellent service as a significant proportion of data loss and deletion are the cause of human error.

The main features of MemoPal:

Up to 100 million TBytes storable in a single file system
Checksum-based archiving
Native data encryption and compression
RAID 5-like geographical redundancy
Native File Indexing
Hot-add scalability
Native Hardware Health Monitoring
Sync Real-Time
Versioning
Searches
Single-user Multi computer
1-click sharing
Web access: Access via browser or WebDav

Windows XP (supported)
Windows Vista (supported)
Windows Server (supported)
Mac -Universal Platform (supported)
Linux and *nix (Private Beta, Public in August 2008)
IPhone (Alpha, Public in September 2008)
Mobile devices (Development to Start in September 2008)

Getting started with MemoPal

MemoPal offers a low cost online cloud storage facility with 150 GB of server storage space for $49 per year and additional storage facilities on request. The company has positioned itself in the European market and is competing against Diino, Carbonite, Mozy, Idrive, NovaStor, Steek, KeepIt, DataDepositBox, Intronis and others.

A fully functional trial version with 1 GB storage facility and limited file size upload and download is offered to users for the purpose of giving them a feel of the software. Like most cloud storage software in the market niche, it offers a scalable and flexible storage facility and client side control panels for ease of access. MemoPal’s unique MemoPal Global File System (MGFS) and its security algorithms make it wholly attractive to those who obsess on data security, redundancy and disaster recovery.

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